We still don’t know exactly when Skeleton Crew , the new Star Wars series created by Jon Watts and Christopher Ford and inspired by old Amblin films, will arrive on Disney+ (possibly November or December ).
But now we know at least how many episodes will make up the first season. According to the website of the Writers Guild of America (the union of writers currently on strike ), the series will consist of eight episodes, like the seasons of The Mandalorian , Ahsoka and The Acolyte .
Skeleton Crew was created by Jon Watts and Christopher Ford, who previously worked together on Clown, Cop Car and Spider-Man: Homecoming . Watts’ idea is to tell an Amblin-style coming-of-age story, but in the Star Wars universe . At the center of the series we will find a group of kids lost in the galaxy, trying to find their way home. Jude Law will be with them, here in the first official image .
Directing the series will find Jon Watts, David Lowery ( Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ), the Daniels ( Everything Everywhere All at Once ), Jake Schreier ( Thunderbolts ), Bryce Dallas Howard ( The Mandalorian ) and Lee Isaac Chung ( The Mandalorian, Minari, Twisters )