Skeleton Crew trailer is heavy on Spielberg vibes

There’s a brand new Star Wars present popping out in simply over a month. Star Wars: Skeleton Crew premieres on December 3 with two episodes on Disney+. The streamer simply launched a brand-new trailer to show it.

For the uninitiated, this can be a stay motion present set throughout the identical time interval as and , or round ten years after the occasions of Return of the Jedi. We don’t know an excessive amount of concerning the plot, apart from it entails some suburban children discovering a spaceship and happening an journey.

If that reminds you of some traditional flicks from the Eighties, you aren’t alone. The entire thing appears to be an homage to Steven Spielberg, Amblin and the huge array of kid-friendly adventures from that decade. Folks have been calling it “Goonies in house,” however a extra fashionable reference could be “Stranger Issues in house.”

The trailer additionally showcases one of many issues I’m personally most desirous about with this present. A few of it’s set in settled planets, probably core worlds similar to Coruscant. There are suburban neighborhoods and faculties. There are individuals going to work. We haven’t gotten many appears as to how common individuals stay in a galaxy far, distant. That’s my jam, proper there.

The showrunners listed below are Jon Watts and Christopher Ford, who made the latest Spider-Man motion pictures for the MCU. The solid is primarily composed of unknown children, together with an elephant alien who could or is probably not associated to Mos Espa band chief Max Rebo. Nonetheless, Jude Regulation is in it. He’s probably taking part in a Jedi, although there may very well be a twist there.