‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’: All Writers Unveiled
The full list of writers for the upcoming Disney Plus series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew have been unveiled.
Per a listing on the Writers Guild of America website (hat tip r/StarWarsLeaks), the majority of the series will be co-written by Christopher Ford and showrunner Jon Watts, who handled the scripts of episodes 1-4 and 7-8. Meanwhile, Myung Joh Wesner will be receiving writing credit for episodes 5-6. The former team wrote Watts’s first few films, the horror movie Clown, the thriller Cop Car, and of course were one of many writers who took a pass at the screenplay for the superhero reboot Spider-Man: Homecoming. The latter writer has fewer public details about her, with her only credit being an episode for an episode of the upcoming Hulu murder mystery series Career Opportunities in Murder and Mayhem. The show will be directed by Watts, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, David Lowery, Jake Schreier, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Lee Isaac Chung.
Described as having the spirit of Steven Spielberg’s early movies, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is a story that follows a group of kids who end up getting lost in the Unknown Regions of the galaxy far, far away after they make a discovery. Together with the help of a lost Force user (Jude Law), they go out on a quest to find their way back home. The series stars Law, Kerry Condon, Jaleel White, Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Kyriana Kratter, Robert Timothy Smith, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Tunde Adebimpe, and Marti Matulis, the last of whom is reprising his role as the space pirate Vane from the third season of The Mandalorian. It is indicated that the series will have ties to The Mandalorian and the other shows set in that era.
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew will arrive on Disney Plus at some point later this year, likely after the second season of Loki wraps up, which would put the series out in November and/or December.
Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.
