We’re mere days away from the arrival of Skeleton Crew and Den of Geek took the chance to chat with co-creators Jon Watts and Chris Ford to discuss the show, the characters, their excitement at being in the GFFA and the 80’s touchstones that anchor the show while delivering something that is utterly infused with Star Wars.
At one point in the first episode of Skeleton Crew, young Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers) encounters a barrier with his speeder bike, and so has to get off the bike and haul it up with his hands. Sure, this is a fictional ride with anti-gravity of some kind, but even this bike has its limits. Any latchkey kid from the ’80s or ’90s can relate, which is the brilliance of the newest Disney+ Star Wars series; it makes you feel like a kid again. Lucky for Wim and three other galactic kiddos—certified mean girl Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), pseudo-cyborg KB (Kyriana Kratter), and blue elephant alien Neel (Robert Timothy Smith)—their mode of transport gets a serious upgrade by the end of the first episode. Hint: Did you ever dream of finding a wrecked starship in your backyard?
“As a kid, you’d just go off on an adventure and just hope that you’d end up in Star Wars somehow,” Skeleton Crew co-creator Jon Watts tells Den of Geek magazine. “That’s all I did growing up.”
Be sure to check out next weeks 211th episode of Making Tracks for our chat with Jon and Chris, as well as heading to Fantha social media for our brief chat on Trafalgar Square at the Skeleton Crew PR event last Thursday.
