Skeleton Crew’s Creators Are Already Planning Its Children’ Futures

For the primary time in Star Wars’ lengthy historical past, the brand new Skeleton Crew sequence stars a young group of kids as they discover the galaxy looking for their means dwelling. It’s clearly a deliberate option to echo previous 80s motion pictures like The Goonies, nevertheless it does current some actual world logistical issues—specifically, children develop so quick earlier than you understand it, particularly once they shot one thing a yr or extra earlier than it truly comes out.

Sequence creators Jon Watts and Christopher Ford touched on the ageing downside in a current Collider interview. There’s no phrase on if Skeleton Crew will come again for season two, however they stated if it does, they know they wish to do for the story and the present’s rising stars. Every part finally comes right down to “how tall the youngsters are,” however they recommended their answer can be an in-universe timeskip of about three or 4 years. “By the point we’d get manufacturing going, we all know what age the youngsters can be,” Ford and Watts defined. “We’ll be writing in direction of that, and also you’ll be rising up with the youngsters.”

Protecting child characters present with their actors has at all times been a difficulty with TV. Even past Stranger Things, which the 2 namechecked as what they wished to keep away from, Misplaced famously bumped into this downside with Malcolm David Kelly’s Walt: after season one, he shot up like a tree, so he was sparingly utilized in season two and finally written out, minus some later appearances. Ford informed Collider they’d at all times deliberate for a timeskip with Skeleton Crew because it “takes so lengthy to get issues shifting.” Curiously, he additional stated there are “so many repercussions” on the finish of the season that it’ll do the youngsters (and the viewers) some good to not instantly leap into the subsequent journey.

A pleasant tease for what’s to come back in Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and the place the present might go, if Disney lets it have a future.

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