Star Wars: Skeleton Crew - coming Dec 2024

[Paul Farquhar]

Even more convinced Jude Law's character is a con man pretending to be a jedi (magnets up the sleeves).

Feel that the kid's pseudo-America homeworld is a First Order world that is largely isolated from the general Star Wars galaxy. Look at all those white desks in dead straight rows! Kids being tested for Stormtrooper potential. The galaxy the kids are lost in is the regular Star Wars galaxy, but they are largely ignorant of it due to their homeworld's isolationism.

I saw something yesterday that I had not seen for a long time: a couple of real life kids on bikes.

 

[pukunui]

Even more convinced Jude Law's character is a con man pretending to be a jedi (magnets up the sleeves).

Where did you see the magnets? Or are you just guessing because his forearms were wrapped?

Feel that the kid's pseudo-America homeworld is a First Order world that is largely isolated from the general Star Wars galaxy. Look at all those white desks in dead straight rows! Kids being tested for Stormtrooper potential. The galaxy the kids are lost in is the regular Star Wars galaxy, but they are largely ignorant of it due to their homeworld's isolationism.

I dunno. It's meant to be set in the same era as The Mandalorian, so the First Order is still in its infancy. That teacher gave me more of a New Republic vibe.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Where did you see the magnets? Or are you just guessing because his forearms were wrapped?

Didn’t see the magnets, but noticed the way the metal keys moved.

I dunno. It's meant to be set in the same era as The Mandalorian, so the First Order is still in its infancy. That teacher gave me more of a New Republic

Finn was taken and trained as a stormtrooper around this time, the First Order had long been building its power in secret. I feel this planet is like one of those Russian faux-America training camps, were everything is a little too perfect.

And a hidden homeworld would explain why the kids can’t just fly home - no one knows where it is.

 

[MarkB]

Their home town is jarringly conventional suburbia for a Star Wars setting.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Their home town is jarringly conventional suburbia for a Star Wars setting.

Star Wars has long used the Planet of the Hats trope. It’s even called out as a world building technique in Star Wars D6. Desert Planet, Ice Planet, Water Planet, Forest Planet, Swamp Planet, Celtic Coast Planet, City Planet, Retro-America Planet.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

The vibe I got was "Star Wars: Goonies". Not yet sure if that's a good or bad thing.

From what has been said in interviews, yes, that was exactly how it was pitched.

 

[Kaodi]

I want to know whose arm they had to twist in order to snag the CN Tower as an extra.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Planet Torontooine.

 

[The Soloist]

One SW series too far for me, I'm out.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Not really sure who this is aimed at, and I'm not sure the people who showran it are either.

Its vision of childhood is pure '80s nostalgia, when that's become more than a little passe (we're into '90s through '00s or even early '10s nostalgia now, for young people - c.f. TikTok etc.).

Everything about it looks a little bit tired and uninspired.

Feel that the kid's pseudo-America homeworld is a First Order world that is largely isolated from the general Star Wars galaxy.

That would be more ballsy than I'm reading in the trailer - quite a lot more ballsy. It would also be kind of relevant and political in a very George Lucas kind of way.

If it was someone like Tony Gilroy, I'd believe that, but this is Jon Watts and Christopher Ford, the Tom Holland Spider-Man guys, who are, at best, confused sentimentalists, at least based on their previous work. I mean, they couldn't even work out, when they wrote Homecoming, how putting a massive arms dealer as the hero's mentor maybe conflicted with having a minor arms dealer as the main bad guy.

So I hope you're right, but that'd be a hell of a lot more than I'm expecting from them. Maybe they've used "Star Wars: Goonies" to sneak something interesting past the Mouse like Gilroy did Andor. But it would be a major change of tack for them. Also not to be too mean but Christopher Ford wrote Chaos Walking which is truly and genuinely awful movie on a level rarely seen from mainstream Hollywood - it did $27m on a $125m production budget (and god knows how much advertising).