Lucasfilm and Disney have dropped a new trailer for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew – and, if there were still any doubts, it’s definitely going for a ‘Star Wars meets Goonies‘ vibe.
Due to launch on Disney Plus in early December, the last of 2024’s new Star Wars TV shows and movies looks equal parts cute, thrilling, dramatic, and action-packed in a teaser set to Peter Schilling’s ‘Major Tom (Coming Home)’ song, albeit one that appears to have been translated into Huttese. It also seems as though it’s leaning heavily into the grimy, criminal underworld aesthetic that was a hallmark of the iconic sci-fi franchise’s early years, too, which will surely appeal to older Star Wars fans, some of whom – alongside younger viewers – weren’t exactly enamored with Star Wars: The Acolyte earlier this year.
If you’re a little baffled about what Skeleton Crew‘s story is about – let’s be honest, fun as its latest trailer looks, it’s hard to determine its plot – don’t worry, because I’m here to help. Essentially, it follows four kids called Wim (played by Ravi Cabot-Conyers), Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), KB (Kyriana Kratter), and Neel (Robert Timothy Smith), who get lost in that famous galaxy far, far away. How do they do so? Well, they find a spaceship buried on their home planet and, after somehow excavating it without any adults finding out, accidentally kickstart its engines and hyperdrive, and wind up in a distant and dangerous part of the cosmos.
But fear not for their safety, because Jude Law’s enigmatic rogue Jod Na Nawood, who some observers are already theorizing is a Jedi – or, at the very least, a…
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