‘Skeleton Crew’ Creators on the Real Rules of ‘Star Wars,’ Jude Law’s Lightsaber and Being Optimistic About a Season 2

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SPOILER WARNING: This story includes major plot developments for the entire first season of “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,” currently streaming on Disney+.

In 2017, when filmmaker Jon Watts and his writing partner Christopher Ford first approached Lucasfilm with their idea for a new standalone “Star Wars” movie, all they really had was the bare essentials. “The only thing that I pitched was, ‘It’s about a group of kids that get lost in the “Star Wars” galaxy that have to get home again,’” he says. “That was as much as we had worked out.” Watts’ career exploded that year with the release of “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” and by the time he was able to untangle himself from Spidey’s web following the release of 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” Lucasfilm’s focus had pivoted to making TV series for Disney+.

So Watts and Ford refashioned their idea into what became “Skeleton Crew,” a rousing adventure focused on four kids — Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), KB (Kyriana Kratter) and Neel (Robert Timothy Smith) — who accidentally escape from their secluded planet, At Attin, on a buried ship that once belonged to a legendary space pirate.

As they strive to find their way home, they forge a shaky partnership with another wayward pirate, Jod Na Nawood (Jude Law), who uses his rudimentary knowledge of the Force to trick the kids (at first) into thinking he’s a Jedi.