As Skeleton Crew’s marketing campaign gains momentum and promises a return to pure, old-school, swashbuckling adventures in live-action Star Wars, we’re starting to learn more about the creators’ experiences creating the series and how they first came across the long-running series. running a franchise.
This second trailerincluding the cover of Peter Schilling’s “Major Tom” in Huttese, it was certainly fantastic. So the conversation about the show in the wake of The Acolyte’s cancellation this summer has really intensified over the past few weeks.
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Empire Magazine recently published an interview with Skeleton Crew co-creator Jon Watts (of Spider-Man fame) and directors David Lowery (The Green Knight), Jake Schreier (Thunderbolts*), Bryce Dallas Howard (The Mandalorian) and Lee Isaac- Chung (Twisters). Fan page Star Wars News Network we’ve collected most of them and there are certainly parts worth highlighting. And no, the eccentric Daniels (Everywhere at Once) was not available for this chat.
Howard revealed that co-creators Jon Watts – who also directs – and Christopher Ford shot a “radio play” of each episode before handing over scripts and concept art to the directors, wanting to set the tone they envisioned for the series. show earlier, allowing each filmmaker to put their own stamp on it. “It was incredibly helpful — it set the pace and tone and kept us consistent in character,” she added.
On how they got into the series, Chung said he started with Return of the Jedi because he grew up in an immigrant household in Arkansas and his family was barely familiar with Star Wars. As for Watts, believe it or not, he kind of missed the Star Wars craze until he played the X-Wing and TIE Fighter games: “My bigger introduction to the world was video games like X-Wing and TIE Fighter. I thought, “Oh yeah, I know that Darth Vader.” Then, when the Special Editions came out, there were a lot of topics related to restoration and learning about the film-making process. I started getting really interested in filmmaking.
Watts’ absence from Star Wars isn’t a huge surprise, as the 43-year-old filmmaker was just over 10 years elderly when the games were released, a period in which no modern Star Wars films were being made. will be released, even though the Expanded Universe is going crazy in the meantime. It’s certainly an intriguing first contact with the universe, and it probably defined his understanding of the possibilities of a galaxy far, far away, far from the Skywalkers. Looking at the series he created with Ford, which could be roughly described as Goonies meets Star Wars, I’d say it all comes together.
The two-episode premiere of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (the remaining six episodes will follow weekly thereafter) arrives on Disney+ on December 3.
