Skeleton Crew Season 2 Faces a Hurdle, But Creators Have a Solution

“Skeleton Crew” is a charming show that takes the “Star Wars” franchise to new and exciting places. While it may tell a slightly younger story, it also doesn’t avoid reminding viewers that it takes place in a dark and dangerous galaxy, full of pirates.

A big part of what makes “Skeleton Crew” so good is the cast. The child actors on the show are not only good in their own right, but they also have great chemistry, making it seem like they’ve actually known each other for years. Things only get better when Jude Law’s Jod enters the picture, as he finds himself constantly exasperated by having to deal with a group of rowdy kids. As much as the show’s central mystery about the planet At Attin is intriguing, it’s the joy of watching these kids go from wide-eyed excitement to absolute terror as they venture through space that makes it worth checking out. a look at “Skeleton Crew”. However, as good as children are, the fact that they are children also poses a problem. What if the show gets a second season (or more)? How do you manage a cast full of actors who are growing rapidly?

Fortunately, it looks like “Skeleton Crew” co-creator Jon Watts already has a solution. talking to ColliderWatts revealed that there are already plans for what season 2 will be about and, perhaps just as important, how the series will address the ages of children. “By the time we start production, we know how old (the kids) will be. So, we would write for that,” Watts explained. “You will grow with the children.” He added:

“It would be something like (a time jump of three to four years) to make sense. We haven’t seen the kids for a while, so it depends on how tall the kids are. But we wouldn’t want a Lo de ‘Stranger Things’ in which we say ‘it’s the next day,’ because it won’t be like that.”

“It’s planned that it would be a bigger time jump because it takes a long time to get things moving. This isn’t like it takes place the next day because the kids are going to be older,” co-creator. noted Christopher Ford in the same interview. “There are so many repercussions. It’s like you want to catch up later.”

If “Skeleton Crew” were to continue, the prospect of it moving forward and growing with its young actors would be quite exciting. We’ve seen this happen before in “Star Wars” animation, as both “The Clone Wars” and “Star Wars Rebels” allowed their younger characters to grow and develop with each season. “Rebels” was particularly good at this, as the show began when its protagonist Ezra Bridger was 14 years old and saw him grow from a wide-eyed street urchin to a mature, Jedi leader who makes the ultimate sacrifice to save the world. day. The end of the series. At the same time, “Rebels” had Ezra make mistakes through some very dark chapters along the way instead of him acting with maturity and experience beyond his years.

Likewise, we could see a future where the children of “Skeleton Crew” grow up and perhaps even become pirates, gaining notoriety and influence as they evolve into full-fledged rogues and scoundrels. Moving the show forward in time also sounds like a much better idea than somehow forcing it to tie into whatever big event Lucasfilm creative director Dave Filoni is planning to tie together the various Disney+ “Star Wars” series into those he is involved in as a producer. “Skeleton Crew” might take place in the same era of the franchise’s timeline as other Filoni-backed shows like “The Mandalorian” and “Ahsoka,” but it’s otherwise dramatically different from those series (which is also what makes it great).

New episodes of “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” drop Thursdays at 6 pm PST on Disney+.