Every time a new Star Wars series happens, we learn something new about the galaxy far, far away. In the trailer for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, the family-friendly adventure coming this December, we learn that space, apparently, has suburbs. And they look just like our Earth suburbs! They seem designed for cars, just like our Earth suburbs! I just don’t know why you would inflict these choices on a whole ‘nother planet, let alone a different galaxy.
But, in the grand tradition of many curious kids raised on a street where all the houses look the same, at least one of the four youths of Skeleton Crew is hungering for adventure—which they find via a curious hatch in the ground. It is not, as one guesses, a lost Jedi temple, but a spaceship which whisks them off to some distant location. Things get hairy, and they meet a space owl in a glorious cloak; I feel the space owl should maybe be the star of this series.
Instead, we have Jedi Jude Law, who makes only a brief appearance at the end of this trailer and, to be honest, looks quite impressive; he’s got that I-am-very-seious-but-also-kind-of-smiling Jedi face down pat. Law’s character is named Jod Na Nawood; the kids he winds up in space jail with are Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), KB (Kyriana Kratter), Neel (Robert Timothy Smith), and Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong). Their reluctant new droid friend, SM33, is voiced by Nick Frost.
Skeleton Crew, which is set in the same post-Return of the Jedi time period as The Mandalorian, is created by Jon Watts and Christopher Ford. Its eight episodes were directed by a star-studded bunch of directors: Daniels (Everything Everywhere All at Once), David Lowery (The Green Knight), Lee Isaac Chung (Twisters), Jake Schreier (Beef), and Bryce Dallas Howard (The Mandalorian). The series also stars Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) and Tunde Adebimpe (Twisters, TV on the Radio).
The adventure begins December 3rd.
