Star Wars: Skeleton Crew was originally supposed to be a movie

Story by Alex Welch

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A band of lost children team up with a mysterious Force-user to find their way home in the latest Star Wars series set after the fall of the Empire.

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Skeleton Crew was originally envisioned as a Star Wars movie before being reimagined as a Disney+ series, giving Lucasfilm a chance to dive deeper into the post-Return of the Jedi era.
The show has the potential to be the Disney+ hit Lucasfilm has been searching for after a string of divisive releases, with a creative team including Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts and screenwriter Christopher Ford.

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