Skeleton Crew’s Creators Are Already Planning Its Youngsters’ 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 manner house. It’s clearly a deliberate option to echo outdated 80s films like The Goonies, however it does current some actual world logistical issues—particularly, children develop so quick earlier than you already know 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 growing old downside 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 wish to do for the story and the present’s rising stars. Every little thing finally comes right down to “how tall the children are,” however they steered their resolution could be an in-universe timeskip of about three or 4 years. “By the point we might 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.”

Conserving child characters present with their actors has at all times been a problem 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 instructed Collider they’d at all times deliberate for a timeskip with Skeleton Crew because it “takes so lengthy to get issues transferring.” Apparently, 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 bounce into the following 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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