Disney is heading again to the galaxy far, far-off for a really completely different form of story, as Spider-Man: Homecoming’s Jon Watts and Christopher Ford ship The Goonies in area with Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. The approaching-of-age Star Wars story is impressed by the Amblin films of yesteryear, and with a a lot youthful forged than we’re used to on this franchise, Jude Legislation’s Jod Na Nawood is the Power-sensitive father determine left to wrangle this unruly lot.
A brand new trailer has simply dropped for and set to an alien language model of Peter Schilling’s “Main Tom,” giving followers a more in-depth have a look at this whimsical world. With The Goonies references plastered everywhere, we’d at all times guessed there have been going to be pirates on this present. Skeleton Crew’s first trailer confirmed off a few of these pirates and the return of the forgotten Shistavanen species, however the newest peek goes even more durable on its pirate themes. With the children of Skeleton Crew going up towards gun-toting area pirates, there are actually hopes that essentially the most notorious pirate in all of Star Wars will lastly be making his live-action debut.
Though we’re but to see any official indicators of him in Skeleton Crew, there are swirling theories that Hondo Ohnaka may very well be the large dangerous of the ensemble or to even assist our forged of younger heroes out of a bind. Launched in season 1 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Hondo was a Weequay pirate captain who crossed paths with Anakin and Obi-Wan Kenobi through the seize of Depend Dooku. His fan-favorite standing was quickly earned, and after showing in a number of extra episodes and turning into a “Jedi sympathizer,” he later popped up in Rebels the place he helped Ezra Bridger liberate Lothal.Â
Skeleton Crew is the most recent sequence set within the New Republic period between George Lucas’ Unique Trilogy and Disney’s Sequel Trilogy that began with The Power Awakens. Whereas this leaves loads of room for the likes of Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) or Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson) to convey issues collectively, followers are extra excited by the potential of Hondo. Though his whereabouts after Rebels are largely unknown, Hondo options within the Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run attraction on the Galaxy’s Edge theme parks. With Hondo main riders in a mission to steal cargo from the First Order, we all know he’s canonically nonetheless alive through the interval of historical past during which Skeleton Crew takes place.Â
