Disney+’s next live-action Star Wars series will arrive in December, it was announced Friday night at the annual D23 fan event.
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Star Wars: Skeleton Crew will premiere Tuesday, Dec. 3, with its first two episodes. Watch a first teaser trailer above.
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew — which was first teased back in May 2022 and hails from Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts and Spider-Man: Homecoming writer Chris Ford — stars two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law and is set during the post- Return of the Jedi reconstruction following the Empire’s demise (that is, the same timeframe as The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett and Ahsoka ).
Specifically, Skeleton Crew follows the journey of four kids who make a mysterious discovery on their seemingly safe home planet, then get lost in a strange and dangerous galaxy, crossing paths with the likes of Jod Na Nawood, the mysterious character played by Law. “Finding their way home — and meeting unlikely allies and enemies — will be a greater adventure than they ever imagined,” says the official synopsis.
Yet while it mainly stars and is about tweenagers, Skeleton Crew is “as much for kids as The Clone Wars ,” exec producer Dave Filoni made clear at the 2022 Star Wars Celebration.
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In addition to Law, the confirmed cast includes Academy Award nominee Kerry Condon ( The Banshees of Inisherin ), Ravi Cabot-Conyers ( #BlackAF ), Ryan Kiera Armstrong ( American Horror Story: Double Feature ), Kyriana Kratter ( BUNK’D ), Tunde Adebimpe ( The Girlfriend Experience ), Nick Frost ( The Nevers ) and Robert Timothy Smith.
The live-action Star Wars series’ directors include Watts, The Daniels ( Everything Everywhere All at Once ), Bryce Dallas Howard ( The Mandalorian ), David Lowery ( The Green Knight ), Jake Scherier ( Lodge 49, BEEF ) and Lee Isaac Chung ( Minari , The Mandalorian ).
Skeleton Crew was filmed under the code name “Grammar Rodeo” (a nod to a Simpsons episode in which Bart and his pals lie to their folks about attending a made-up educational event), and has been described as “a galactic version of classic Amblin coming-of-age adventure films of the ’80s.”
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