For the primary time in Star Wars’ lengthy historical past, the brand new Skeleton Crew collection stars a younger group of youngsters as they discover the galaxy looking for their means dwelling. It’s clearly a deliberate option to echo previous 80s motion pictures like The Goonies, however it does current some actual world logistical issues—particularly, children develop so quick earlier than you recognize it, particularly once they shot one thing a 12 months or extra earlier than it truly comes out.
Collection creators Jon Watts and Christopher Ford touched on the ageing drawback in a latest 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 wish to do for the story and the present’s rising stars. All the pieces finally comes right down to “how tall the children are,” however they recommended their resolution 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 children could be,” Ford and Watts defined. “We’ll be writing in the direction of that, and also you’ll be rising up with the children.”
Preserving child characters present with their actors has at all times been a difficulty with TV. Even past Stranger Issues, 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 finally written out, minus some later appearances. Ford instructed Collider they’d at all times deliberate for a timeskip with Skeleton Crew because it “takes so lengthy to get issues shifting.” Apparently, he additional mentioned there are “so many repercussions” on the finish of the season that it’ll do the children (and the viewers) some good to not instantly soar into the subsequent journey.
A pleasant tease for what’s to return in Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and the place the present might go, if Disney lets it have a future.
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