In the new Star Wars mini-series Skeleton Crew, four kids make a mysterious discovery on their home planet that leads them to get lost in a strange and dangerous galaxy. It has strong echoes of Captain Eo, the Michael Jackson music video experience created for the Disneyland Resort, which made its debut in 1986. It’s an eight episode mini-series. A lot of the aliens are practical suits, not CGI, so it feels like the old Star Wars universe we grew up with—and of course it has kinds finding a spaceship, boobytraps and pirates. It has all the makings of a Goonies-style adventure.
The mysterious discovery the kids discover, by the way, is a fully operational hyperdrive-capable starship, buried deep in the earth and forgotten. They board the ship and through sheer kid-powered dorkery, manage to launch the thing into space and leave for parts of the galaxy unknown. Their task now is to find their way home without getting killed. Or worse.
The mini-series comes from creators Christopher Ford and John Watts, and stars Jude Law, Kerry Condon andRyan Kiera Armstrong, among others. It finished production on November 21, 2023, and sat on the shelf for a year before Disney decided it was time to release it. This was probably good timing, as Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures was streaming last year at around this time, and Skeleton Crew would likely have sucked all the oxygen out of its airlock, so to speak. Disney+ knew exactly what they were doing.
The two-episode series premiere, streams December 3, only on @DisneyPlus.
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