Jude Regulation and producer Christopher Ford just lately opened up a bit about Lucasfilm’s upcoming Star Wars sequence Star Wars: Skeleton Crew.

The sequence has been described as ”a galactic model of basic Amblin coming of age journey movies of the ’80s.” The story will comply with 4 younger children from a tiny little planet, they usually find yourself getting misplaced within the Star Wars galaxy and embark on a journey to seek out their means again residence.

The movie was pitched to Lucasfilm as “Goonies in Star Wars,” and it’s been defined that whereas the sequence stars 4 children, “it isn’t a child’s present.” The journey that they discover themselves on is alleged to be an intense and darkish journey.

In a current interview with Leisure Weekly, Ford supplied some new particulars on the sequence saying that they got down to inform a enjoyable journey story. He stated: “Skeleton Crew‘s tone is an journey. We needed it to be plenty of enjoyable. However in fact, together with journey comes the draw back of it, which is hazard. And when the youngsters are in peril, it is further fraught. So we performed with that, however general we needed it to be only a enjoyable journey.”

Ford continued to speak concerning the tone of the sequence saying: “Hopefully it may be for all ages. Once we advised Kathy Kennedy about that we needed to go for that Amblin tone, which she perfected through the years, what she would say is that they by no means considered these as motion pictures for teenagers. They only occur to be about children, a narrative of a child occurring an journey. So it could possibly be for anybody.”

Regulation was requested about his character within the story, and whereas he gained’t verify he’s a Jedi, it’s protected to say that he’s. Regulation stated: “I am unable to let you know very a lot about my character. He’s somebody the youngsters meet on their try and get residence. He’s like plenty of the world that they expertise: contradictory, and at occasions a spot of nurture and different occasions a spot of menace.”

He added: “As a result of it is by their eyes, at occasions there is a type of goofy nature and a goofy relationship between the youngsters and the adults. After which different occasions it is actually fairly darkish and fairly scary, which I suppose is what the world in all probability seems prefer to an terrible lot of 11-year-olds.”

The youngsters within the sequence are performed by Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Kyriana Kratter, Robert Timothy Smith, and Ryan Kiera Armstrong. The episodes within the present will likely be directed by Bryce Dallas Howard, The Daniels, David Lowery, Jake Schreier, and Lee Isaac Chung. The Mandalorian’s Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni will govt produce.