While only the lucky attendees of Star Wars Celebration get to see footage from three upcoming Star Wars series—The Acolyte, Skeleton Crew, and the second season of Andor—a few intriguing details have been announced about these 2024 series, including the young cast joining Jude Law in Skeleton Crew!
Deadline snuck a pic:
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The series, which comes from Jon Watts and Chris Ford and is said to be inspired by classic Amblin movies, has a very interesting set of directors attached, including Everything Everywhere All at Once’s Daniels, The Green Knight’s David Lowery, The Mandalorian’s Bryce Dallas Howard, series co-creator Jon Watts, Jake Schreier (Paper Towns), and Lee Isaac Chung (Minari).
Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Kyriana Kratter, and Robert Timothy Smith are playing the three young stars of the show, which features Law as a Jedi. Like The Mandalorian, it’s set post-Return of the Jedi, but the plot is still unknown. According to Variety, “The first footage from the series was also shown, including shots of the children on speeders, in school, on spaceships and a tease of a familiar villain from The Mandalorian.”
(Please don’t be Cad Bane again.)
Attendees also got a first look at Leslye Headland’s The Acolyte, with its incredible cast. The show stars Amandla Stenberg and Lee Jung-jae (playing a Jedi master), along with Carrie-Ann Moss, Manny Jacinto, Dafne Keen, Jodie Turner-Smith, Rebecca Henderson, Dean-Charles Chapman, Charlie Barnett and Margarita Levieva. The Hollywood Reporter noted that the cast also includes Joonas Suotamo (Chewbacca in the sequel trilogy) as a new character who is a Wookie Jedi master.
The series is set between the High Republic era and the prequel trilogy, which Headland explained is “when the bad guys are outnumbered.” She apparently pitched the show as “Frozen meets Kill Bill from the perspective of the bad guys, with samurai films as an overall inspiration.”
As for Andor, well, we all know where this story ends, so there’s less to hint at about the second season—though we’re still wondering when Alan Tudyk’s K-2SO will make his appearance. Notably, season two will take place over the four years remaining before Rogue One (as opposed to the first season, which took place over a year). The twelve-episode season’s structure, Variety notes, will be of “three-episode pods written and directed by the same team. Each of those pods will encapsulate a successive number of days within one of those years.”
Footage shown from season two reportedly suggests that creepy Syril Karn (Kyle Soller) may have a bigger role. Also, Andor has a new haircut.
Andor is expected to return in August 2024.
