Director of the highly-anticipated Twisters movie Lee Isaac Chung just revealed new information about Star Wars’ next TV show, Skeleton Crew. Skeleton Crew is the next in line among Star Wars’ upcoming TV shows, and although it’s rumored to be premiering by the end of 2024, little is known about the show. However, details about Skeleton Crew have included its place in the Star Wars timeline, coinciding with The Mandalorian timeline, and the coming-of-age nature of the story, which focuses on four children lost in the galaxy. Now, Chung, who directed one episode of Skeleton Crew, has provided additional insight.

In an interview with Inverse, Director Lee Isaac Chung explained that his experience directing an episode of The Mandalorian prepared him for his movie, Twisters, which debuts in theaters this week. Additionally, Chung spoke about his time working on Skeleton Crew—his sentiments about the children of the show in particular:

“I only directed one of the episodes, but I fell in love with those kids. They’re great actors and human beings. And I worked with Jude Law a lot in my episode, and all of them got along together so well. I can’t wait for people to see these actors. They’re really great….Jon Watts and Chris Ford, as creators and writers, they are so good at telling stories about young people and young people who are growing up, and also young people who are allowed to have fun and be kids and to be who they are. That the show is very much in the vein of something they would make and thrive at.”

As Chung’s comments make clear, Skeleton Crew is clearly going to bring something very unique to Star Wars movies and TV shows, and it will be thrilling to see what that looks like.

Star Wars Was Literally Made For A Coming-Of-Age Story

Star Wars has been about coming-of-age stories from the beginning. While Luke Skywalker was no longer a child in A New Hope, he went from a wide-eyed farm boy who had barely left home to someone brave enough to take on the two most terrifying beings in the galaxy by himself. Coming-of-age stories can also be about so much more than literally growing up; Luke ‘came of age’ because he became more realistic about the galaxy around him and had to confront his own demons and limitations. In essence, he had to shrug off any lingering childhood innocence.

However, as Chung’s response makes clear, Skeleton Crew won’t be a coming-of-age story in the same way. Rather, Skeleton Crew will see children actually being children. Star Wars has come closer to this recently with characters like Grogu and Omega, but even with those two characters, they had the weight of the galaxy on their shoulders. For Omega in particular, her storyline was closer to Ahsoka’s arc in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, as she effectively became a soldier in the battle against the Empire in the same way Ahsoka was a soldier for the Republic.

Moreover, while Star Wars has long included children, their childhood hasn’t been the focus. A prime example is Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Audiences may have bristled at seeing Darth Vader as a little boy in the prequel trilogy’s first movie, but in truth, the movie focused very little on Anakin being a child. Instead, it was about his incredible power and the threat he already posed to the Jedi Order.

Even in more recent projects, such as Obi-Wan Kenobi, children were fierce fighters, such as little Leia Organa. It will be interesting to see how this compares to Skeleton Crew, which, evidently, will allow kids to act like kids. Plenty remains to be seen about Skeleton Crew, as, in typical Star Wars fashion, much of the upcoming project remains heavily under wraps, but these comments from Lee Isaac Chung are certainly promising.

Source: Inverse

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  Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

  Skeleton Crew is a Disney+ original series set in the Star Wars universe.The series was created by Jon Watts and Christopher Ford and tells the story of four young kids that must find their way home after becoming lost in the galaxy. The story takes place during the same time frame as The Mandalorian.

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  Twisters

  A follow-up to the 1996 original film Twister, Twisters is a sequel set years after the original, said to be fast-tracked by Steven Spielberg and Mark L. Smith, with Frank Marshal as producer. Little details exist about the film, but Helen Hunt is expected to reprise her role as Jo, with the film likely to pay homage to the late Bill Paxton.