The Star Wars universe continues to develop on streaming tv with the discharge of the primary trailer for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew this weekend at Disney’s annual D23 Expo. The eight-episode standalone collection is ready in the identical time-frame as The Mandalorian and Ahsoka.
Government producer Kathleen Kennedy was intrigued when collection co-creator Jon Watts pitched a Star Wars collection impressed by the 1985 movie The Goonies. (Kennedy had co-produced that movie and co-founded Amblin Leisure.) She informed co-creator Christopher Ford that The Goonies hadn’t been created particularly for teenagers, as a substitute telling a narrative that simply occurred to be about youngsters happening an journey. So Ford and Watts wrote Skeleton Crew with the identical mindset: a present for everybody that simply occurred to function youngsters because the central characters. Per the official premise:
Skeleton Crew follows the journey of 4 youngsters who make a mysterious discovery on their seemingly protected residence planet, then get misplaced in a wierd and harmful galaxy, crossing paths with the likes of Jod Na Nawood, the mysterious character performed by [Jude] Regulation. Discovering their method residence—and assembly unlikely allies and enemies—will likely be a higher journey than they ever imagined.
Jude Regulation leads the solid because the quick-witted and charming (per Regulation) “Power-user” Jod Na Nawood. Ravi Cabot-Conyers performs Wim, Ryan Kiera Armstrong performs Fern, Kyriana Kratter performs KB, and Robert Timothy Smith performs Neil. Nick Frost will voice a droid named SM 33. The solid additionally consists of Tunde Adebimpe, Kerry Condon, and Jaleel White in as but undisclosed roles.
The trailer opens with our younger protagonists in school, making ready to take a check that can set the course of their respective futures. At the least one among them is uninterested in the every day routine and longs to do one thing extra thrilling. “What if we might go wherever we wish in the entire galaxy?” he asks. “An actual journey. No extra fake.” Naturally they discover a mysterious “misplaced Jedi temple” buried within the woods and shortly discover themselves rocketing away on a spaceship—and getting misplaced. Can they survive all the risks of area and discover their method again to their residence planet? With the assistance of Regulation’s Jedi, we like their possibilities.
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew premieres on December 3, 2024, on Disney+.
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