New Star Wars: Skeleton Crew trailer confirms it'll be the perfect festive Disney Plus palette cleanser to Squid Game season 2 on Netflix

Lucasfilm and Disney person dropped a caller trailer for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew – and, if location were still immoderate doubts, it's decidedly going for a 'Star Wars meets Goonies' vibe.

Due to motorboat connected Disney Plus successful early December, nan past of 2024's new Star Wars TV shows and movies looks adjacent parts cute, thrilling, dramatic, and action-packed successful a teaser group to Peter Schilling's 'Major Tom (Coming Home)' song, albeit 1 that appears to person been translated into Huttese. It besides seems arsenic though it's leaning heavy into nan grimy, criminal underworld artistic that was a hallmark of nan iconic sci-fi franchise's early years, too, which will surely entreaty to older Star Wars fans, immoderate of whom – alongside younger viewers – weren't precisely enamored pinch Star Wars: The Acolyte earlier this year.

If you're a small baffled astir what Skeleton Crew's communicative is astir – let's beryllium honest, nosy arsenic its latest trailer looks, it's difficult to find its crippled – don't worry, because I'm present to help. Essentially, it follows 4 kids called Wim (played by Ravi Cabot-Conyers), Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), KB (Kyriana Kratter), and Neel (Robert Timothy Smith), who get mislaid successful that celebrated postulation far, acold away. How do they do so? Well, they find a spaceship buried connected their location satellite and, aft someway excavating it without immoderate adults uncovering out, accidentally kickstart its engines and hyperdrive, and upwind up successful a distant and vulnerable portion of nan cosmos.

But fearfulness not for their safety, because Jude Law's enigmatic rogue Jod Na Nawood, who immoderate observers are already theorizing is simply a Jedi – or, astatine nan very least, a Force wielder – offers to thief them get backmost home. I suspect, though, that he'll want thing successful return, and that thing could beryllium nan very spaceship that nan quartet primitively found.

This isn't our first charismatic look astatine Skeleton Crew. In August, Lucasfilm and Disney debuted nan sci-fi series' first trailer, which was 1 of nine large announcements we were astir excited to spot astatine D23 Expo 2024. That teaser arrived 9 days aft Star Wars: Skeleton Crew's charismatic merchandise day was announced alongside immoderate first-look images astatine its adorable kid characters. For those who didn't publication astir erstwhile it'll return formation connected Disney Plus, aka 1 of nan world's best streaming services, successful nan supra X/Twitter post, it'll get connected December 3 (US) and December 4 (UK and Australia) pinch a two-episode premiere.

Joining Law and his young co-stars connected nan formed roster are Kerry Condon and Tunde Adebimpe – nan second of whom, arsenic confirmed successful this caller trailer, is playing Wim's father. It's unclear who Condon's unnamed characteristic is related to, but I fishy she'll beryllium mother to Fern aliases KB. Nick Frost is besides portion of proceedings, pinch Simon Pegg's long-time collaborator voicing nan droid known arsenic SM-33.

Jon Watts, who directed nan first 3 Spider-Man movies successful nan Marvel Cinematic Universe, has co-created Skeleton Crew pinch Christopher Ford, who wrote nan book for Spider-Man: Homecoming. The brace person assembled a genuinely talented line-up of board for this project, too, pinch The Green Knight's David Lowery, Beef and Thunderbolts filmmaker Jake Schreier, The Mandalorian veterans Bryce Dallas Howard and Lee Isaac Chung, and nan Daniels – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – helming its episodes. The second duo's engagement is peculiarly exciting, particularly successful ray of their activity connected multi-Oscar victor Everything Everywhere All astatine Once.

Clearly, Skeleton Crew has a ton of prima powerfulness attached to it, but will its communicative clasp up and gain it a spot connected our best Disney Plus shows list? I dream so, but my workfellow Rob Dunne believes Skeleton Crew already has a batch of convincing to do. I wonderment if this caller trailer will make him alteration his mind.

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