The first trailer for the new Disney+ Lucasfilm series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew dropped in the Honda Center room at Disney’s D23 in Anaheim, CA tonight.
Jude Law came on stage and said the series harkens back to the Amblin kid fantasy films of the 1980s ala The Goonies.
“I fell in love with Star Wars when I was a ten year old boy, the series is told from the perspective of the kids.”
This December is when the series premieres.
In the clip, young kids are zipping around a space academy environment . They come across a tunnel in the woods, zip down a tunnel, find a ship, fly through hyperspace, encounter big monsters and fire off torret guns. Oh, and Jude Law plays a jedi. It’s very young skewing.
The Jon Watts executive produced Star Wars series takes place in the same timeline as The Mandalorian, and Book Of Boba Fett, and follows “a group of kids who are about ten years old who gets lost in the Star Wars universe,” per Watts who announced the series at Star Wars Celebration 2022. “It stars four kids but it’s not a kids show,” he added.
Christopher Ford is a writer on the series with Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni as EPs.
Deadline told you that Skeleton Crew was shot in California and was projected to spend around $136 million in qualified expenditures during its first cycle in the Golden State with an estimated tax credit of $20.9M.
