jude law and christopher ford have let some details slip about upcoming star wars series skeleton crewskeleton crews tone is an adventure ford who cocreated the series with frequent collaborator jon watts told entertainment weekly we wanted it to be a lot of fun but of course along with adventure comes the downside of it which is danger and when the kids are in danger its extra fraught so we played with that but overall we wanted it to be just a fun adventureset in the new republic era and described as a comingofage story inspired by the goonies skeleton crew centers on a group of 10yearolds trying to find their way home after getting lost in the galaxybryce dallas howard daniels david lowery jake schreier and lee isaac chung will all direct episodes the mandalorians jon favreau and dave filoni will executive producecontinued ford hopefully it can be for all ages when we told kathy kennedy about that we wanted to go for that amblin tone which she perfected over the years what she would say is that they never thought of those as movies for kids they just happen to be about kids a story of a kid going on an adventure so it could be for anyonelaw one of the only confirmed stars in the new series wont confirm whether or nor not his character is a jedi though a first look shown at star wars celebration says otherwisei cant tell you very much about my character law said he is someone the children meet on their attempt to get home he is like a lot of the world that they experience contradictory and at times a place of nurture and other times a place of threatthe children are played by ravi cabotconyers kyriana kratter robert timothy smith and ryan kiera armstrongbecause its through their eyes law continued at times theres a sort of goofy nature and a goofy relationship between the kids and the adults and then other times its really quite dark and quite scary which i guess is what the world probably looks like to an awful lot of 11yearoldswhile we wait for skeleton crew to arrive check out our list of all the upcoming star wars movies and tv shows or our guide on how to watch star wars in order