Set on the very Earth-like planet of At Attin, Lucasfilm’s new Disney Plus Star Wars streaming series, Skeleton Crew, oozes with timeless nostslgia and innocence. By creating a show centered on the unexpected adventures of a group of children, Jon Watts and Christopher Ford have provided an opportunity for fans to reconnect with the he franchise through an unjaded perspective and seem to have done just that. However, the wholesome and unfamiliar setting along with some mysterious goings on in the first two episodes have caused some confusion about where in the Star Wars timeline Skeleton Crew takes place.
As discovered over the first two installments, to the rest of the galaxy, the homeworld of Wim, Fern, KB and Neel is a bit of a myth. Referred to by a Theelin “entertainer” as the “lost planet of eternal treasure, At Attin is a bit of a place out of time that rests behind a barrier to the rest of the galaxy. While that’s certainly a core mystery of Skeleton Crew that will continue to unfold, the series’ place on the timeline is not.
As seen on Disney Plus, the events of Skeleton Crew take place after Ahsoka and before Star Wars Resistance, setting it firmly in the New Republic era. Though the series hasn’t provided enough clues to pin down an exact spot on the timeline, with Ahsoka taking place in 11 ABY, Skeleton Crew must take place either concurrently with that or shortly thereafter as the New Republic is still functional.
Of course, Lucasfilm made some effort to circumvent at least some of the confusion ahead of the series by confirming the New Republic era setting; however, the D+ timeline does provide a little more information and, perhaps, a clue that could help solve the show’s ongoing mystery. By setting Skeleton Crew chronologically AFTER Ahsoka, it can be assumed that the audience is already familiar with the Star Wars franchise’s extragalactic expansion which played a major role in Ahsoka. Perhaps the reason At Attin seems frozen in time is that it has been hidden in the same way Peridea was revealed to be? Perhaps not! With 6 episodes to go, it’ll likely be some time before audiences learn the true nature of the Skeleton Crew‘s central mystery.
First announced at Star Wars Celebration 2022, Lucasfilm’s Star Wars streaming series, Skeleton Crew, has finally arrived on Disney Plus. After being delayed by over a year, the eight-episode series now finds itself in the unenviable position of following one of the studio’s most harshly treated projects in The Acolyte. While Skeleton Crew is the tonal antithesis of The Acolyte, a growing subset of Star Wars fans have begun to approach every new project with an accumulated skepticism and, in many cases, an increasingly choral disregard for the Dave Filoni era of storytelling in the galaxy far, far away. Skeleton Crew may well provide Lucasfilm’s best effort to combat and contravene the online vitriol that has become endemic to Star Wars fandom. And it does so with kids!
I’ll break protocol for a moment to explain that this review won’t conclude with some judgment of whether Skeleton Crew is “good” or “bad” nor make any accurate predictions about how fans will feel about it. That’s because I cannot know if it is “good” or “bad” or even begin to evaluate how I feel about it. Members of the media were given a screening package that included the first three episodes of an eight-episode series. By the time the third episode ends, it is clear that the show has the potential to continue in an entertaining direction; however, anyone pretending to review a full season after only seeing 38% of a series is at best disingenuous and at worst, deliberately causing chaos and harm.
Following an opening scene steeped in Star Wars tradition, Episode 1 of Skeleton Crew presents as a slice-of-life project before quickly morphing into a rollicking and spirited adventure into some peripheral corners of the Star Wars universe that have always existed but have never been explored in live-action. Pirates have played a major role in canonical animation and in Legends continuity and after first popping up in The Mandalorian where the Pirate King Gorian Shard caused some issues, here, there be pirates. From the daring boarding that breaks the silence of space and is Pirates of the Caribbean in space to the boisterous and bawdy Port Borgo full of scurvy swashbucklers, Skeleton Crew is all hands hoay into buccaneering, including some elusive booty that will likely sit as a central mystery throughout the series. That said, calling it a show about pirates wouldn’t be fair.
Despite boasting Jude Law as a key figure who is kind of mysterious and kind of dangerous and definitely none of the people he says he is, Skeleton Crew is a show about children but probably not specifically for children. Rather, in the mold of Stand By Me, it’s a little coming-of-age adventure that also vibes with, yes, The Goonies but also with a less well-known adventure film like 1985’s Explorers and maybe even a little bit with the ridiculous Ice Pirates. Skeleton Crew treats its core kids a bit in the way Stephen Spielberg always did. They get to behave a little older than they are, live out their fantasies, meet people they’ve only read of in legends and be in danger without actually being endangered. And most importantly, not one of these kids is learning any lessons through two episodes.
However, putting children at the center of the story allows co-creators Christopher Ford and Jon Watts to create within their comfort zones As a result, at a time when the Star Wars franchise is in need of renewed hope and a return to the innocence that the first audiences to see Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back took with them into the theater, along comes a Star Wars project full of kids who while vulnerable, are full of true wonder.Skeleton Crew‘s core four are the archetypal rebel (Fern), explorer (Wim), innocent (Neel) and caregiver (KB) who may well provide exactly what audiences need to reconnect with the magic of the Star Wars universe. Despite having kids at its core, Skeleton Crew looks to be intended to do some expansive world-building which seems likely to be why Filoni gave it the green light and set it in the New Republic era. I won’t even tease spoilers here but there are enough hints in the first two episodes to catch on to the fact that At Attin, the homeworld of the leads, is quite unlike any planet we’ve ever seen in the franchise.
Following a bit of a slow, exposition-heavy start, Skeleton Crew does weigh anchor and hoist the mizzen and it looks like it’s going to be one hell of a ride through space as the crew tries to find their way back home. Despite its small sample size, accentuated by Mick Giacchino‘s quirky, uncanny and neo-nostalgic themes, Skeleton Crew checks the boxes of an adventure worth taking. Indeed in the best ways, it feels quite like a successful adaptation of a Disney theme park attraction into a live-action project, except there’s no Disney theme park attraction being adapted. Perhaps it’s best to take it for exactly what it is: a return to innocence that’s been missing from one of the world’s premiere franchises for far too long.
Episodes 1 and 2 of Skeleton Crew are now streaming on Disney Plus.
Lucasfilm’s upcoming Star Wars streaming series, Skeleton Crew, sets out to do something that’s rarely been done in nearly 50 years of storytelling set in a galaxy far, far away: chronicle an adventure from the perspective of a child. Outside of the exploration of Anakin Skywalker’s youth in Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace, live-action Star Wars projects have always been about adults. Given that The Creator has said that he developed Star Wars FOR kids, it’s especially strange that more projects haven’t featured them.
It was supposed to be a kid’s movie for 12-year-olds that were going through puberty, who don’t know what they’re doing, and are asking all the big questions: “What should I be worried about? What’s important in life?” And Star Wars has all those things in there. They’re buried in there but you definitely get it, especially if you’re young.
-George Lucas
According to star Jude Law, part of the charm of the eight-episode series is seeing the four young leads exploring that “Star Wars environment.” Skeleton Crew co-creators Jon Watts and Christopher Ford have built out a corner of the Star Wars galaxy that star Law calls “a fun place to be” as well as “thrilling and very, very unique” while also honoring the projects that came before. And it sounds as though before the series finale hits, part of the homage to George Lucas‘ original work is a heavy dose of surprising revelations.
In an interview with Collider, Law teased that his character, Jod Na Nawood, is a bit of a mystery and one that Watts and Ford were in no hurry to unravel. In fact, according to Law, the true nature of his character isn’t revealed until the penultimate episode, which he calls his favorite.
“I’ve only seen them through once, so that’s quite a hard question for me,” said Law when asked by Collider which episode he enjoyed the most. “I think it’s [Episode] 7 because so much comes to a head, and you find out an awful lot very quickly about my character.”
“It’s not that it’s all about me, but, by doing that, it pushes the relationship with the kids to a whole new level,” said Law of impact the reveal of his character’s true identity will have.
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew follows the journey of four kids who make a mysterious discovery on their seemingly safe home planet, then get lost in a strange and dangerous galaxy. Finding their way home—and meeting unlikely allies and enemies—will be agreater adventure than they ever imagined.
-Official Synopsis for Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
Set during the same New Republic time period as The Mandalorian and Ahsoka, it’s still unclear just how big of an impact Skeleton Crew will have on the overarching narrative those projects share. Whether the events of the project will lead to a second season or will have a major impact on Dave Filoni‘s New Republic era film isn’t clear at this point; however, Law is confident that fans will like what they see when the series debuts on December 2nd.
“They’ll want more. That’s what they’ll say,” said Law of his expectations of how fans will receive the series. “They’ll say, ‘When can I get more of this?’ I think they’ll be confounded, and kind of, I hope, a little bit upset. But it’s also obviously got a kind of Star Wars glorious ending to it, too. But there are layers. A lot happens and a lot is revealed.”
Lucasfilm’s D+ streaming series Andor was an immediate and improbable hit for the studio. Though Rogue One was relatively well-received when it hit theaters in 2016, it didn’t seem to fit the mold of the type of project either the studio heads or fans would be looking to explore further. As a direct prequel to Star Wars: Episode IV-A New Hope, Rogue One told the story of a group of Rebels willing to give it all to see the Death Star destroyed. They all died. We know what happens next. The end. Except it wasn’t and the galaxy far, far away is all the better for it.
Following the anxiety-inducing Season 1 finale, Star Wars fans have been patiently awaiting the arrival of the second season of Andor. With the recent announcement of its April 2025 release, Lucasfilm has already started what’s sure to be an all-out publicity blitz for the sophomore season which will flesh out the title character’s rise as one of the Galaxy’s most important revolutionaries. However, as fans prepare for the final 12 episodes, creator Tony Gilroy made a shocking admission about his original plans for the series.
Andor, the acclaimed thriller, returns for its long-awaited conclusion. The twelve episodes of Season Two will carry the story of Cassian Andor and the emerging rebel alliance over the climactic four years that lead to the discovery of The Death Star and the events of Rogue One. Season One followed Cassian’s reluctant journey from cynical nobody to revolutionary volunteer. Andor Season Two will see him transform from soldier to leader to hero on the way to his epic destiny. From the very first scene, Cassian’s story has activated an ever-widening ensemble of allies and enemies. Season Two will see these relationships intensify as the horizon of galactic war draws near. Everyone will be tested and, as the stakes rise, the betrayals, sacrifices and conflicting agendas will become profound. Who will live to see their dream realized? Who will realize what that dream cost?
While discussing the second and final season of the streaming series with Empire, Gilroy revealed that he originally conceived of Andor as a five-season run consisting of 60 total episodes.
Though Gilroy pitched Andor to Lucasfilm as a five-season series, it didn’t take long for him to realize he needed to reconsider. Gilroy explained to Empire that during the point in production on Season 1 where he started to think ahead to Season 2, the enormity of what he was planning to undertake hit him. “Oh my God, we are going to have to come up with another 12 hours of story?” he recalled thinking before realizing that another 36 hours would have to come after that. “So I was already panicked,” Gilroy shared. “We already said we were going to do five years, that was the concept. How do you get out of that?“
The solution, which crystalized while Gilroy and series star Diego Luna discussed “how fucked” they were, was to turn the second season into years 2 through 5 of the original plan. To do so, the season was shot in four blocks of three episodes each, each covering one year until they catch up to Rogue One‘s opening scene. “There’s no mystery about where we are going,” said Gilroy. “We are going to end up on that walk out to the ship with K-2 and go to the Rings of Kafrene and start Rogue One.”
Though Andor‘s endpoint is known and plenty of familiar faces from Rogue One are set to appear in Season 2, the final 12 hours of the series may be the most anticipated content set in the galaxy far, far away in a long, long time. Andor: A Star Wars Story will premiere on Disney Plus on April 22, 2025.
Just days after a trade report revealed that a Lucasfilm insider called Daisy Ridley’s Rey the franchise‘s “most valuable cinematic asset” it’s clear that the studio’s prior plans for the character are no longer as in place as was believed. One of three films announced to be in development during Star Wars Celebration 2023, the Ridley-led New Jedi Order era film was once expected to launch the theatrical return of the Star Wars franchise. However, following the exit of the project’s second writer and in the wake of some confusing news about the future of the franchise, it seems as though the project may not be as ready to move forward as once believed.
Per a press release from Disney, the Untitled Star Wars film dated for December 18, 2026 has been pulled from the schedule.
The news comes in the wake of the announcement that Simon Kinberg struck a deal with Lucasfilm to create a new trilogy of films which may or may not include Rey and may or may not be Episodes X, XI and XII. With the studio still determining what to do with Ridley’s Rey, it’s now unclear what projects will follow Jon Favreau‘s The Mandalorian and Grogu, which is due in theaters on May 22, 2026.
One would be forgiven if one counted themselves among the many who questioned why Lucasfilm developed and produced Andor. A prequel to Rogue One, which itself was a prequel to George Lucas‘ original Star Wars film, it seemed an odd decision to work backward to tell the story of a man whose fate was already known. However, despite what may have been perceived to be working against its success, Andor became the gold standard for the studio’s streaming efforts, delivering a tense, boots-on-the-ground look at the birth of the Rebel Alliance. Driven by the passion of star Diego Luna, Season 1 of Andor was truly must-watch TV for Star Wars fans, leaving them ravenously anticipating its second and final season.
Andor, the acclaimed thriller, returns for its long-awaited conclusion. The twelve episodes of Season Two will carry the story of Cassian Andor and the emerging rebel alliance over the climactic four years that lead to the discovery of The Death Star and the events of Rogue One. Season One followed Cassian’s reluctant journey from cynical nobody to revolutionary volunteer. Andor Season Two will see him transform from soldier to leader to hero on the way to his epic destiny. From the very first scene, Cassian’s story has activated an ever-widening ensemble of allies and enemies. Season Two will see these relationships intensify as the horizon of galactic war draws near. Everyone will be tested and, as the stakes rise, the betrayals, sacrifices and conflicting agendas will become profound. Who will live to see their dream realized? Who will realize what that dream cost?
Following his conversation with Stellan Skarsgård‘s magnificent bastard, Luthen Rael, in the Season 1 finale, it’s clear that Cassian is now ready to do what he must to take down the Empire and that’s where he picks up in Season 2. “He’s a man fully committed to the Rebellion,” said Luna in an interview with Empire Magazine. “It’s someone who has to ascend. There’s a huge mountain for him to climb in order to [become] the guy we meet in Rogue One,” explained the actor, referring to the 2016 film to which the two seasons of Andor serve as a prequel.
And of course, as the series moves toward its end it must do so in a way that puts all the right people in all the right places…which means it might just become more Star Warsy than the first season. “We move in space more than ever — the amount of planets and sets you’re going to get to see. There are some familiar and new locations,” explained Luna, teasing a major shift from the first season’s various planetary settings, though there is one very familiar planet that will serve as a key location. “I mean, we have to end up in Yavin, right?” said series creator Tony Gilroy, referring to the planet that housed the Alliance’s base of operations seen in Rogue One and in Star Wars: Episode IV-A New Hope. “So, we’ll tell the story of Yavin. No one has quite dealt with Yavin the way we will be doing it.” With Gilroy’s knack for keeping fans on the edges of their seats, it’ll be fun to watch how it all unfolds even when the endgame is already in sight.
Season 2 of Andor will debut on Disney Plus on April 22, 2025.
As Lucasfilm continues to prepare for its return to theaters in 2026 with The Mandalorian and Grogu, the studio continues to chart a new path forward in the galaxy far, far, away. With a trio of films announced at Star Wars Celebration Europe set to tell tales in all-new eras and Dave Filoni‘s Mandoverse creeping toward its end, a trade report has broken news that Lucasfilm CEO Kathleen Kennedy has reteamed with a Star Wars vet to bring more adventures to the big screen.
According to THR’ Borya Kit, Simon Kinberg, who co-created the beloved animated series, Star Wars: Rebels, has signed on to write and produce a new trilogy of Star Wars films for Lucasfilm.
Though the trade report came with no details about what the new trilogy will be, it does seem clear what it won’t be. According to THR, Kinberg‘s trilogy will NOT be a continuation of the Skywalker Saga which spanned Episodes I through IX. Kinberg’s goal, as was the case with Rebels, is to introduce audiences to a new story and a new group of characters although, as THR’s report indicated, that does not necessarily mean characters from other Star Wars projects won’t potentially appear in the new trilogy. Kit made it clear that the new trilogy is not being designed as Episodes 10, 11 and 12.
Despite reports, this is NOT going to be Episodes 10-12, sources tell me. https://t.co/c4GZbUtrrD
As it stands now, Lucasfilm will return to theaters for the first time since 2019’s Star Wars: Episode IX-The Rise of Skywalker with the Jon Favreau-led The Mandalorian and Grogu on May 22, 2026. Beyond that, the Daisy Ridley-led New Jedi Order era film is expected to be on deck with James Mangold‘s Dawn of the Jedi era film and Dave Filoni‘s Mando-verse finale also on the lineup card.
One of three new films announced at Star Wars Celebration 2023, Lucasfilm’s untitled New Jedi Order movie will feature Daisy Ridley’s return to the Star Wars universe as Rey. Set 15 years after the events of Episode IX-The Rise of Skywalker, the project will tell “the story of rebuilding the New Jedi Order and the powers that rise to tear it down.”
A pair of new reports revealed that Knight has left the project, leaving Lucasfilm searching for a third writer. According to Variety, as a result, production will be delayed until “well into” 2025 at the earliest, casting doubt on a potential 2026 theatrical release. The studio has already begun the search for a new writer for the film which will still be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.
When it premiered on Disney Plus in 2022 Lucasfilm’s Star Wars streaming series, Obi-Wan Kenobi, debuted as the service’s most-watched series opener ever, surpassing even the incredibly popular first season of The Mandaloian. Though viewership declined over the course of the series, the Ewan McGregor-led project was generally well-regarded critically and included some incredible and iconic moments, including a reunion between Obi-Wan and his former Padawan, Darth Vader.
That is not an active development. But I never say never, because there’s always the possibility. That show was so well-received and [director] Deborah Chow did such a spectacular job. Ewan McGregor really wants to do another. Everybody’s all hands on deck with what we’re doing right now, as you can see by what we showed everybody [at the Celebration]. We’ll turn our attention to that again maybe down the road.
-Kathleen Kennedy on a second season of Obi-Wan Kenobi
During an appearance at Los Angeles Comic Con, McGregor revealed to the audience that he and Lucasfilm were “exploring ideas” for a sophomore season of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Ewan McGregor says they’re "exploring" ideas for Obi-Wan Kenobi Season 2, and he wants to wear the Clone Wars armor and do more flashbacks with Hayden Christensen. The crowd went INSANE. #LACC
Among those ideas is one that will certainly thrill fans of Lucasfilm’s iconic animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars: a further reunion with McGregor’s prequel co-star, Hayden Christensen, that would include potential flashbacks to the Obi-Wan and Anakin’s time in the Clone Wars!
I was saying this to someone earlier. That armor! Putting on that armor would be a great joy. Then me and Hayden can really get back together.
While ideas are wonderful, there’s plenty a slip twixt cup and lip. However, McGregor remains one of the studio’s most iconic, beloved and marketable stars and may be one of the only stars of the franchise capable of willing something into being.
Though Lucasfilm chose not to renew their most recent Star Wars streaming series, The Acolyte, the studio’s Disney Plus projects have certainly been an overall success. Andor remains the crown jewel of the bunch but live-action projects such as The Mandalorian and Ahsoka have also been generally well received as have animated series like The Bad Batch and Tales. Under new Chief Creative Officer Dave Filoni‘s watch, Lucasfilm has not hesitated to bring animated characters to live action or to cross over into Legends continuity or pull from other canon media to borrow characters or ideas to help flesh out their D+ series and it sounds as though the studio is planning to do it again.
According to trusted insider Daniel RPK, Lucasfilm is preparing to use Jedi Cal Kestis in an upcoming Disney Plus series. A survivor of Order 66, Kestis first appeared in the video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and then again in its sequel, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
I’ve seen a lot of chatter online about that. It could be really interesting. It’s not something that’s front and center right at the moment, but what’s interesting in the company that we do is that everybody across all these different lines of business, we all talk to one another. That often doesn’t happen in situations like this, but because so many of the people at Lucasfilm, are used to working together, we’re very transparent about what the storytelling is that’s going on — whether it’s in the streaming space or the movie space, or books, animation games, whatever it is. Eventually, it’ll be some kind of immersive entertainment.
-Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy on the possibility of Cal Kestis appearing in a live-action Star Wars project, EW, April 2023
Due to the popularity of the gaming franchise, Kestis is an incredibly well-loved character and one that fans have hoped would appear in a live-action project for quite some time now. The buzz around fans’ hopes grew so loud that it reached the ears of Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, who during Star Wars Celebration 2023 teased the possibility saying “There are many things we talk about just in terms of how we use technology with ILM inside the company. So this constant cross-pollination of ideas to determine just exactly what stories move into the movie space, what stories move into the TV space — you never know, because the creative process is very similar in all of those different spaces. And so you don’t have a crystal ball. You see what works, and then if it does, you draw from that.“
Though it sounds as though the plan is for a live-action debut for the character, no mention of a particular project was made. Kestis is a human character whose canon adventures in the video games occur around 9 BBY. While it’s not clearly defined, Kestis would be in his early to mid-40s in the New Republic era that is currently unfolding on Disney Plus. Whether it is relevant or not, actor Cameron Monaghan, who portrayed Kestis in the games, is 31 years old, making it entirely reasonable that he might appear in something like Skeleton Crew or Season 2 of Ahsoka, which Filoni is currently writing.
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