‘Skeleton Crew’ Will Feature Space Pirates In a Big Way, New Photos Confirm
New photos from Skeleton Crew and quotes from its showrunners were released today via Entertainment Weekly, as part of the publication’s Fall TV Preview. With it, Lucasfilm wants to convey one message: pirates may have been featured in Star Wars sporadically throughout the years, but they will play a major role in the new series starring Jude Law.
That’s what we can gather from writer Christopher Ford’s statement to EW; he also explained
“Those are pirates! Space pirates. Pirates are talked about so much in Star Wars. 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.”
He also explained why the era in which the show is set, concurrent with other MandoVerse series, after the destruction of the Second Death Star and before the Rise of the First Order (also known as the New Republic Era), is especially prone to the inclusion of pirates:
“With the era we’re in, we’re kind of getting to play with that lawless thing. The Empire is gone, and so we’re playing with a part of the galaxy that has a resurgence of piracy.”
One of those pirates will be called Gunter and played by Jaleel White. Other characters confirmed today are Brutus, voiced by Frank Tatasciore and played by Stephan Oyoung, Pax, played by Mike Estes, and Chaelt, embodied by Dale Soules. Marti Matulis is back as Vane, one of the pirates who made his debut on The Mandalorian season 3. See a photo below.
Jon Watts, co-creator with Ford and director of multiple episodes, explained how much he enjoyed the freedom of working for Lucasfilm and under Dave Filoni:
“What’s great about working at Lucasfilm is that they’ll let you know if you’ve gone outside of the boundaries. 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.”
Ford also added:
“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.”
The first episode of Skeleton Crew will hit Disney Plus on December 3. The series stars Jude Law as Jod Na Nawood, Ravi Cabot-Conyers as Wim, Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Fern, Kyriana Kratter as KB, Robert Timothy Smith as Neel, Nick Frost as the voice of robot SM-33, Jaleel White as Gunter, Marti Matulis as Vane, Kerry Condon, and Dane DiLiegro.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as movies from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
