One of the Lucasfilm Star Wars series projects that I’m curious about is Jon Watts’ Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, which Jude Law stars in.
The series has been described as ”a galactic version of classic Amblin coming of age adventure films of the ’80s.” The story will follow four young kids from a tiny little planet, and they end up getting lost in the Star Wars galaxy and embark on a journey to find their way back home.
The film was pitched to Lucasfilm as “Goonies in Star Wars,” and it’s been explained that while the series stars four kids, “it’s not a kid’s show.” The adventure that they find themselves on is said to be an intense and dark journey.
Now the show’s co-star Kerry Condon is offering high praise for the cast and crew on the series, shares her experience, and teases that the end result is “really adventurous.”
Condon said: “It’s so great. I don’t even have kids, but I’d pay to see this. I loved it. I loved being on it. There was something about it that was so innocent and playful and lovely.”
She added: “People say don’t work with kids or animals, but I don’t know about that. And also when children are good actors, they’re kind of out-of-this-world good. So watching some of the kids’ scenes, it was amazing.”
The actress continued: “Jude Law’s in it and I’ve worked with him before. But it’s really adventurous and they got such great directors for each episode – The Daniels, Bryce Dallas Howard, Lee Isaac Cheung, David Lowery. It was a pretty amazing group. And of course, Jon Watts who created the whole thing.”
In the story, four kids make “a mysterious discovery on their seemingly safe home planet and get lost in a strange and dangerous galaxy. Finding their way home, meeting unlikely allies and enemies, will be a great adventure than they ever imagined.”
Producer Christopher Ford offered some new details on the series saying that they set out to tell a fun adventure story. He said: “Skeleton Crew‘s tone is an adventure.
He continued: “We wanted it to be a lot of fun. But of course, along with adventure comes the downside of it, which is danger. And when the kids are in danger, it’s extra fraught. So we played with that, but overall we wanted it to be just a fun adventure.”
Ford continued to talk about the tone of the series saying: “Hopefully it can be for all ages. When we told Kathy Kennedy about that we wanted to go for that Amblin tone, which she perfected over the years, what she would say is that they never thought of those as movies for kids. They just happen to be about kids, a story of a kid going on an adventure. So it could be for anyone.”
Law was also asked about his character in the story, and while he won’t confirm he is a Jedi, it’s safe to say that he is. Law said: “I can’t tell you very much about my character. He is someone the children meet on their attempt to get home. He is like a lot of the world that they experience: contradictory, and at times a place of nurture and other times a place of threat.”
He added: “Because it’s through their eyes, at times there’s a sort of goofy nature and a goofy relationship between the kids and the adults. And then other times it’s really quite dark and quite scary, which I guess is what the world probably looks like to an awful lot of 11-year-olds.”
The children in the series are played by Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Kyriana Kratter, Robert Timothy Smith, and Ryan Kiera Armstrong. The episodes in the show will be directed by Bryce Dallas Howard, The Daniels, David Lowery, Jake Schreier, and Lee Isaac Chung. The Mandalorian’s Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni will executive produce.