Skeleton Crew’s Creators Are Already Plannin...

For the primary time in Star Wars’ lengthy historical past, the brand new Skeleton Crew collection stars a young group of kids as they discover the galaxy looking for their approach house. It’s clearly a deliberate option to echo previous 80s films like The Goonies, but it surely does current some actual world logistical issues—specifically, youngsters develop so quick earlier than you recognize it, particularly once they shot one thing a 12 months or extra earlier than it truly comes out.

Collection creators Jon Watts and Christopher Ford touched on the getting older drawback in a current Collider interview. There’s no phrase on if Skeleton Crew will come again for season two, however they mentioned if it does, they know they need to do for the story and the present’s rising stars. Every part in the end comes all the way down to “how tall the children are,” however they instructed their resolution could 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 children could be,” Ford and Watts defined. “We’ll be writing in the direction of that, and also you’ll be rising up with the children.”

Retaining child characters present with their actors has all the time 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 drawback 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 all the time deliberate for a timeskip with Skeleton Crew because it “takes so lengthy to get issues shifting.” Curiously, he additional mentioned there are “so many repercussions” on the finish of the season that it’ll do the children (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 may go, if Disney lets it have a future.

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