Entertainment Weekly Has Exclusive Skeleton Crew Pictures
Virginia Kublawi | Sep 18, 2024 |
We’re finally hearing more about Skeleton Crew as the Star Wars show fast approaches its December 3rd release on Disney+. D23 brought us the first (legal) footage of Skeleton Crew, and now we have photos courtesy of Entertainment Weekly. Entertainment Weekly’s Dalton Ross also spoke with Skeleton Crew creators Jon Watts and Christopher Ford about the pirates the kids will face in the series, among other things. Included are photos of Jod Na Nawood (Jude Law), the pirates, and the four young leading characters. Check out Entertainment Weekly’s exclusive pics here:
“Those are pirates!” confirms Ford of the photo subjects above. “Space pirates.”
Left of center is Jaleel White, Steve Urkel in Family Matters, as Gunter. To Gunter’s left is Vane of The Mandalorian season 3 fame. That leaves Brutus (voiced by Fred Tatasciore and played by performance artist Stephen Oyoung), Pax (performance artist: Mike Estes), and Chaelt (Orange is the New Black’s Dale Soules).
“With the era we’re in, we’re kind of getting to play with that lawless thing,” says Ford. “The Empire is gone, and so we’re playing with a part of the galaxy that has a resurgence of piracy.”
“People would call Han Solo a pirate and he’d be like, ‘How dare you?’ And we’ve seen some awesome pirates in the animated shows. So this was something where both [executive producers] Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau were really excited to do more pirate stuff.”
“I’m also a big fan of Monkey Island,” says Watts. “That’s also classic Lucas. So somewhere between Star Wars pirates and Monkey Island pirates. I think we found our sweet spot.”
This photo displays Jod Na Nawood (Jude Law), KB (Kyriana Kratter), Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), and Neel (Robert Timothy Smith). The kids get lost in space after discovering something on their seemingly ordinary home world. They at least believe Jod is a Jedi and link up with him.
“What’s great about working at Lucasfilm is that they’ll let you know if you’ve gone outside of the boundaries,” Watts says. “Dave Filoni is our goalkeeper.”
“He actually is a great hockey player, but he’s also a figurative goalkeeper. We will come up with ideas of things that we like, and then he’ll be like, ‘Actually, maybe it’s this.’ Or, ‘Oh, we already did something like that somewhere else.’ And you always end up with a bunch of other episodes of Star Wars to go watch and things to go read, and it’s good. You feel like you can safely explore things creatively without making some huge canonical mistake.”
Adds Ford: “And he gets both sides of that because he did that [mentoring under] George Lucas. So he gets that thing of, ‘I want to make a whole new kind of a Jedi,’ and then someone being like, ‘Okay, hold on. A lot of people have thought about this. Let’s do this the right way.’ And it’s so helpful.”
I don’t think the pictures are anything special, or surprising, for that matter. We knew Vane would be back after surviving Gorian Shard’s destruction in The Mandalorian season 3, and Jaleel White was confirmed as well. We don’t know anything about the other pirates, although that’s good, perhaps even refreshing. Star Wars needs more new ideas and characters rather than retreading (and disrespecting) the greats. The images don’t look bad, though; it’s just hard to glean much of anything without context. I love Jude Law, so no matter what, I’m at least intrigued to see him in Star Wars.
As for Ford and Watts’ comments, I wish I felt more strongly, but I don’t. I agree that what little we have seen of pirates in Star Wars, especially in The Clone Wars, was really cool. But given the childish look and feel of Skeleton Crew, I’m not sold on these particular pirates. It is an interesting concept to explore a villain(s) besides Palpatine and obvious ones like Jabba the Hutt, but Disney keeps fumbling it. Look at Moff Gideon in The Mandalorian and The Stranger in The Acolyte; Disney/Lucasfilm doesn’t know how to handle these characters, even with a great actor in the role.
But what do you think of the pictures? Are you excited for Skeleton Crew? Let us know in the comments! Shout out to Entertainment Weekly for the Skeleton Crew pictures.
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I do recall when Jude Law signal boosted some youtuber filmmaker. That is one way to win me over. Giving people breaks withe simple gestures. I think he had one line in the role.
The alien designs and costumes have been a lil bit better lately in Star Wars. I’ve seen some effort on that and appreciate it. Overall though, I’m still waiting for the adventure and fun to return. Despite the incredible effects, so much of SW was the characters, the lines, the interaction. Really miss that OG cast, but gotta move on.