SKELETON CREW - 2024 Star Wars TV

[Jay 40,305]

 

[rough cut 1,752]

For a second I thought it was a new Stephen King adaption I didn’t know about.

 

Spoiler

 

[Luke Skywalker 2,015]

2 hours ago, Jay said:

 

And there you can see the slimy pirate that escaped from the mandalorian episode

[Meredith McKay 7,071]

1 minute ago, Luke Skywalker said:

And there you can see the slimy pirate that escaped from the mandalorian episode

Vane?

 

 

[Jay 40,305]

Jon Favreau on how the kid-focused Skeleton Crew fits into the Star Wars aesthetic

[Edmilson 9,443]

I like that Star Wars is diversifying its target audiences: something for kids (Skeleton Crew), for adults (Andor), for all ages (Mandalorian, the animated series), for die hard fans (Tales of the Jedi), for gamers (the two Jedi games), etc.

[Jay 40,305]

Yes!

[1977 1,746]

1 hour ago, Edmilson said:

I like that Star Wars is diversifying its target audiences: something for kids (Skeleton Crew), for adults (Andor), for all ages (Mandalorian, the animated series), for die hard fans (Tales of the Jedi), for gamers (the two Jedi games), etc.

 

I wonder which category the Acolyte will fit into.

[tomsmoviemadness 3,695]

All ages with more adult aspects

[GerateWohl 5,344]

29 minutes ago, JNHFan2000 said:

adult aspects

Sex?

[Jurassic Shark 13,741]

Antediluvian sex.

[GerateWohl 5,344]

Paul Verhoeven should direct.

[Jay 40,305]

Empire article about the show:

 

https://www.empireonline.com/tv/news/star-wars-skeleton-crew-kids-think-theyre-in-andor/

[Toillion 277]

I’m surprised how little we’ve heard about Skeleton Crew now that Ahsoka has been over for a few weeks. 

[Groovygoth666 1,057]

How long do they usually wait after a show to start premoting the next? 

 

Also with the writers and actors strikes maybe that's slowed any news/talk for it? 

[Not Mr. Big 4,749]

My question is, why aren't they releasing this at Halloween?

[Toillion 277]

Yeah Halloween would have been perfect lol. 
I'm assuming it’s being delayed at this point. Probably because of the strike and maybe they are trying to hold on to some stuff for next year. But there has been no word of an official release date or delay. just the copyright which says 12/23 approximately. 
https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/detailed-record/35118548

 

if it wasn’t being delayed, I feel like there would be at least some sort of promotion coming from Disney. 

 

[Jay 40,305]

Teaser trailer arrives tomorrow, show arrives December 3rd

 

https://people.com/jude-law-teases-star-wars-easter-eggs-in-new-skeleton-crew-series-exclusive-8686428

 

 

 

[Edmilson 9,443]

1 hour ago, Jay said:

Teaser trailer arrives tomorrow, show arrives December 3rd

 

Time to change the thread's name then.

[Mr. Hooper 3,750]

The characters look kinda happy or optimistic in the pictures. The show could be a nice palate cleanser to remove the bitter taste of cynical nihilism from 'The Acolyte'.

[crocodile 8,739]

 

Karol

 

[crocodile 8,739]

 

Karol 

[Tom Guernsey 2,810]

2 hours ago, crocodile said:

 

Karol

 

Looks fun... Star Wars: Goonies.

[Luke Skywalker 2,015]

I like the “Amblin” planet 😅

[Tallguy 4,740]

OK, gotta say I'm grinning from ear to ear right now.

[tomsmoviemadness 3,695]

Is anybody wishing for a certain composer for this?

 

James Newton Howard would be really cool. 

Maybe Christopher Lennertz in his orchestral mode.

Kevin Kaska would be a great pick as well.

 

Or how awesome would it be if Thomas Newman did it, but that's very unlikely.

[Thor 8,701]

Is that blue elephant Max Rebo(?) in his younger days?

 

Seems very "kiddie", but I suppose there's room for that as well.

[DarthDementous 1,275]

7 hours ago, crocodile said:

 

Karol 

 

I hate how the planet the kids are presumably from looks. Futuristic suburban is an art design approach that my brain cannot square with Star Wars

 

Given the show is probably mostly about them going on adventures in space hopefully it'll only be a brief part since it violently pulls me out of the Star Wars universe

 

So Jude Law is playing a Jedi...interesting, although hopefully not another Jedi who survived Order 66 as that well is thoroughly dry by this point

[tomsmoviemadness 3,695]

He is credited as a "force user" in some places. Does that count as a Jedi?

[Tom Guernsey 2,810]

8 minutes ago, DarthDementous said:

 

I hate how the planet the kids are presumably from looks. Futuristic suburban is an art design approach that my brain cannot square with Star Wars

I thought that, it's either high rise or living in huts, basically. I could buy it as a Star Trek aesthetic but it's quite jarring for Star Wars. Then again, one of my biggest complaints is that almost all of the design (aliens, ships, buildings etc.) derives in some way from the OT. At least that element doesn't do that but then it doesn't pull it in an interesting new direction either. Shrug.

 

11 minutes ago, DarthDementous said:

So Jude Law is playing a Jedi...interesting, although hopefully not another Jedi who survived Order 66 as that well is thoroughly dry by this point

Agreed, although I can't help feel Star Wars is now full of a lot of dry wells...

[DarthDementous 1,275]

2 minutes ago, JNHFan2000 said:

He is credited as a "force user" in some places. Does that count as a Jedi?

 

We see him use the Force deliberately and he's fairly old so I'm just assuming, it's entirely possible he's just a Force Sensitive although I don't know where he'd have gotten the training from seeing as Luke's academy is ??? in this point of the timeline

1 minute ago, Tom Guernsey said:

I thought that, it's either high rise or living in huts, basically. I could buy it as a Star Trek aesthetic

 

Star Trek is exactly where my brain went as well. Same with the blue alien that spoke normally in the first Mandalorian episode as well

[Luke Skywalker 2,015]

So renaissance for naboo,   Roman architercture for muunlist, picassian art for the mandalorians is ok, but this suburban looks is wrong?

 

It feel weird for me also at first, but it is just another planet with a peculiar architecture… not dissimilar to jack blacks planet in the mandalorian…

This series must have a 80’s family film based score. Nothing of this trendy modern dont want to emulate williams style shit.

[Stark 580]

Dave Grusin is still alive!

[GerateWohl 5,344]

Looks like Goonies in space.

[Manakin Skywalker 5,510]

Looks like they're canonizing Captain EO. Guess this means we get to have a James Horner Star Wars score after all! 

 

[Groovygoth666 1,057]

5 hours ago, DarthDementous said:

So Jude Law is playing a Jedi...interesting, although hopefully not another Jedi who survived Order 66 as that well is thoroughly dry by this point

[Thor 8,701]

So, what about that blue elephant thingie? Max Rebo?

[Andy 5,419]

Probably same species as Max Rebo, but I would love if he was a Hooter from Captain EO. 

[Brando 2,235]

And now the 'people complaining about SW school buses and neighborhood's' countdown begins...

[Laserschwert 543]

1 hour ago, Thor said:

So, what about that blue elephant thingie? Max Rebo?

The show takes place at the same time as The Mandalorian, so 5 years AFTER ROTJ.

 

Regarding the score, with the success of Stranger Things, this might just as well get a synth-heavy soundtrack. Though I hope for a fully-fledged orchestral E.T./Goonies sound. 

[Mr. Hooper 3,750]

1 hour ago, Brando said:

And now the 'people complaining about SW school buses and neighborhood's' countdown begins...

They're already well into that in the YouTube comment sections!

 

But to paraphrase one comment, I'd be ready to overlook the Spielbergian suburban setting if the show is entertaining...

 

That said, the 1980s nostalgia baiting thing is wearing on me somewhat.

 

Yeah, Lucas put a 1950s-style "space diner" in Episode II, and the pod racing thing was a nod to the car racing-cruising culture from his youth...but they were just nods.

 

This is full-on, "Look! It's an Amblin Star Wars Goonies in space!", and they're even promoting it as such.

[Chen G. 4,779]

1 hour ago, Mr. Hooper said:

and the pod racing thing was a nod to the car racing-cruising culture from his youth..

 

It reminds me more of a NASCAR race - I'm sure Lucas is a fan - than any kind of autocross Lucas would have participated in.

 

And, contrary to what he said, Lucas never actually swore off cars and racing: he spent much of his community college years around Laguna Seca, shot a short for his undergraduate there, spent the weeks after Cannes (where he pitched Star Wars) going to races in France. David Lynch remembers Lucas taking him on a ride and them "flying" through the hills.

 

I mean, Lucas' car crash was when another car T-boned him as he turned left: not the sort of thing that has anything to do with any activities he may have had on the race track and thus unlikely to scare him off the track to begin with. It's not like he was, say, gunning it on winding country roads, hit an apex early, spiked the brakes and oversteered his way into a tree or something like that; nor is it clear to me that Lucas was so accomplished a competitive driver prior to his crash: testimony from Allan Grant and Lynch hardly supports this - he seems to have been more of a gearhead-pitcrew (and, notably, photographer-illustrator) kind of guy.

 

But your point is well-taken: Star Wars references fiction from the 20s through to the 50s, but not necessarily the 20s or the 50s themselves. It's meant to be absorbingly otherworldly, first, and a throw-back a far second.

[Meredith McKay 7,071]

A lot of stuff was a "throwback" to the 50's back then, Music etc. (see ELO's Telephone Line, The Cars etc.)

[Not Mr. Big 4,749]

Don't like The Goonies and hate Stranger Things.  Won't be watching this unless there were a Williams theme or something (in which case I'd watch the first episode)

[Mr. Hooper 3,750]

I guess I've been numbed by Disney's milking of Star Wars, and it's hard for me to get excited about anything anymore.

 

I must look something like this when watching the new trailers...

 

[DarthDementous 1,275]

15 hours ago, Thor said:

So, what about that blue elephant thingie? Max Rebo?

 

Doubt it, that species doesn't have hands, only feet, and the character in Skeleton Crew is bipedal

[Holko 10,750]

1 hour ago, DarthDementous said:

Doubt it, that species doesn't have hands, only feet,

Nah that would be cool. But they've always been completely inconsistent with that. Also I think it was confirmed to be that species.

[Mr. Hooper 3,750]

The whole "playing with its feet" effect didn't come off well in RotJ... It looks like arms and hands playing. But this picture shows they were intended to look like legs, with outward-bent "knees".

 

 

But for whatever reason, they decided to attach them at the shoulders, which killed the effect... They should've stuck with Phil Tipett's original design, seen on the right here.

 

Then you have the toys, which gave him arms and hands.

 

 

 

So, though official canon may say different, most people see Max Rebo like this, and will probably forgive 'Skeleton Crew' for showing another member of his species this way.

 

 

[Meredith McKay 7,071]

Max Rebo lost his hands in a speeder accident with his girlfriend, thankfully his band mates stuck by him as he learned how to play with his feet, later he had surgery to move them up to where his hands had been to provide easier access to his keyboards.

[Stark 580]

13 minutes ago, The Great Gonzales said:

Max Rebo lost his hands in a speeder accident with his girlfriend, thankfully his band mates stuck by him as he learned how to play with his feet, later he had surgery to move them up to where his hands had been to provide easier access to his keyboards.

I’d watch this Gattaca spin-off.