Jon Favreau Explains How Skeleton Crew Feels Like ‘Star Wars’ While Serving So Many Directors Visions

Of all the upcoming Star Wars live-action series, the one that may be getting the least attention is definitely Skeleton Crew, arguably because we still don't know much about it. It's been almost a year since the series was announced during Star Wars Celebration Anaheim, and we still are waiting for a few more plot details than 'an Amblin-like story focused on four kids and a supervising adult who get lost in outer space'. The only story update we got during the past Celebration in London was that Jude Law, who plays said adult, is a Force user.



We know that the series is currently in post-production and is scheduled to debut in late 2023 (we'll see if that turns into early 2024 at some point), and that it was co-created by Christopher Ford and Jon Watts, of Spider-Man fame. It will take place during the New Republic timeline, with Mandalorian overlords Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni acting as executive producers as well. The two of them visited Entertainment Weekly's Star Wars podcast, Dagobah Dispatch, last week, and were asked a few questions about Skeleton Crew.







Favreau has said before that Watts pitched him the story for it on the set of Spider-Man: No Way Home, and that he immediately got on the phone with Dave Filoni to talk about it. However, something we hadn't really heard yet is how they told it to Kathleen Kennedy, who used to be a frequent collaborator in Steven Spielberg movies. Here's how Favreau described it:

To Favreau, it's all about the diversity of stories and voices. He explained how he appreciates that each episode of each show has a different director, and that is directly reflected in their work. And this is especially true in the case of Skeleton Crew:

These directors are, of course, Jon Watts, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (the Daniels), Jake Schreier, Bryce Dallas Howard, Lee Isaac Chung, and David Lowery. To Favreau, it's important that the series feels like Star Wars, but you also have to ask -- what does that even mean?

He ended with the following:

Those trailers included the first-ever look at Skeleton Crew, which is not yet public. For that, we will have to wait a few more months, as there is another Star Wars series coming in the meantime, Ahsoka, which is set to debut in August.



More on Skeleton Crew to come as more information comes out about it.



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