Skeleton Crew Can Be The '80s Style Star Wars That Never Happened

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The upcoming Star Wars: Skeleton Crew gives the Star Wars franchise the chance to create a 1980s Amblin-style coming-of-age story. In doing so, it can make up for the franchise never quite hitting the mark with its attempts to appeal to a young audience during the actual '80s. While many movies and shows today attempt to capture the 1980s family movie feeling, its connection to Star Wars gives Skeleton Crew a unique opportunity to succeed.

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew was announced during this year's Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, and is slated to premiere in 2022. So far, not much is known about Skeleton Crew. The series will be created by director Jon Watts and writer Chris Ford, who are best known for working on Spider-Man: Homecoming and its sequels, and feature Jude Law. Skeleton Crew has been described as a coming-of-age story with child protagonists, with producer Dave Filoni describing the series as is “as much for kids as The Clone Wars,” suggesting that it will also appeal to an older demographic.

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While The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi were released in the 1980s, both were influenced by the same 1970s New Cinema spirit and tradition of pulp science-fiction as A New Hope. Although the original Star Wars movies were heavily marketed to children, there were no major child characters, and the franchise has never really done an adolescent coming-of-age story of the type that became very popular later in the decade. The franchise's TV series aimed at children in the '80s took a very different tack. Skeleton Crew has the opportunity to rectify that blind spot.

Following the release of The Return of the Jedi, George Lucas' plans