SKELETON CREW (2024) With Jude Law & Kyriana Kratter | Star Wars & Disney+

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is an upcoming live-action American television series created by Jon Watts and Christopher Ford for the streaming service Disney+. It is part of the Star Wars franchise, taking place in the same time frame as The Mandalorian and its interconnected spin-offs after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983). Skeleton Crew tells a coming-of-age story.

Watts approached Lucasfilm about telling an Amblin Entertainment-style coming-of-age story set in the Star Wars universe, and he was developing the series with Ford by early 2022. It was officially announced that May at Star Wars Celebration, with Jude Law revealed to be starring. Filming had begun by September 2022 in Los Angeles, and wrapped by late January 2023. The child actors in the series were revealed in April 2023. Skeleton Crew is scheduled to be released on Disney+ in 2024, and will consist of eight episodes.

In February 2022, Production Weekly revealed the existence of an upcoming, untitled Star Wars series that was being developed under the working title Grammar Rodeo. It was later reported that Jon Watts was being considered to direct at least one episode of the series, with Jon Favreau serving as an executive producer after creating the Star Wars series The Mandalorian. The new series was reported to be set during the High Republic era, with a formal announcement planned for Star Wars Celebration in May 2022. In mid-May, Christopher Ford was revealed to have created the series with Watts, with the pair executive producing and Ford serving as writer. The series was also revealed to be set after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983), just like The Mandalorian, and was described as a “galactic version of classic [Amblin Entertainment] coming-of-age adventure films of the ’80s”.