Skeleton Crew’ Co-Creators Jon Watts and Chris Ford Need To Reply These Questions in a Second Season
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew might have ended with a powerful defeat of its morally doubtful pirates and a return dwelling for its preteen protagonists, however that does not imply the story has to finish there. Collection creators Jon Watts and Christopher Ford mentioned the finale’s unanswered questions in a latest interview with Collider’s Maggie Lovitt. After discussing how that they had given the sequence a definitive and conclusive ending, Ford raised some questions {that a} potential second season of Skeleton Crew might handle, saying, “In the event you’re a fan of the Star Wars galaxy, you could have all these questions: What occurs to all this cash? What occurred to Jod?”
The finale, “The Real Good Guys,” ended with the planet At Attin, misplaced for many years, rediscovered by the galaxy at massive—and provided that the planet homes a fortune of Previous Republic credit, future occasions might make the pirate invasion it simply underwent might appear to be a spa day on Cloud Metropolis. It additionally leaves the destiny of the sequence’ important antagonist, Jod Na Nawood (Jude Law), up within the air.
So, Who Is Jod Na Nawood?
The query of who is Jod Na Nawood was one of many central mysteries of Skeleton Crew. He makes use of a wide range of aliases all through the sequence, some pulled from the deepest depths of Star Wars obscurity. What he reveals within the final episode, presuming it was the reality, is that he grew up in excessive poverty, and by no means had sufficient to eat. He did possess an affinity for the Drive, and was found by a Jedi, who started to coach him in its use. Nevertheless, she was found by the Empire and murdered by its Jedi-hunters, whereas Jod was compelled to observe. He escaped dying and have become a pirate, however was deserted by his crew when he led them on a futile treasure hunt. He quickly found a better treasure, nevertheless; he came to the aid of a quartet of preteens who’d inadvertently blasted off from the long-lost treasury world of At Attin. Realizing that At Attin housed a fortune, Jod led the children on a sequence of adventures earlier than reaching At Attin—which he promptly recruits his former crew to plunder and pillage. Within the remaining scenes of the finale, nevertheless, he sees the New Republic shoot down his flagship, however his final destiny stays unknown. Was he apprehended by the New Republic, or did he escape to plunder one other day?
If there’s a second season of Skeleton Crew, we all know that it will not happen instantly after the first-season finale. In an interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub, Ford and Watts defined {that a} hypothetical Season 2 would take its youthful cast’s ages into account. “We have now a built-in ticking clock of the children and their age, and by the point we might get manufacturing going, we all know what age they’d be. So, we might be writing in direction of that. You’ll be rising up with the children.”
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is now streaming in its entirety on Disney+. Keep tuned to Collider for future updates.
