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 residence. It’s clearly a deliberate option to echo outdated 80s motion pictures like The Goonies, nevertheless it does current some actual world logistical issues—particularly, youngsters develop so quick earlier than you realize it, particularly once they shot one thing a 12 months or extra earlier than it truly comes out.

Sequence creators Jon Watts and Christopher Ford touched on the ageing 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. All the pieces finally comes all the way down to “how tall the youngsters are,” however they steered their answer 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 youngsters could be,” Ford and Watts defined. “We’ll be writing in the direction of that, and also you’ll be rising up with the youngsters.”

Holding child characters present with their actors has all the time 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 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 ultimately written out, minus some later appearances. Ford instructed 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 youngsters (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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