Yahoo Lifestyle Could Potential Skeleton Crew Season 2 Have Clone Wars Pirate Hondo Ohnaka as New Threat? ‘We Love Him,’ Says EP
The following contains spoilers for the Season 1 finale of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, now streaming on Disney+.
The Season 1 finale of Disney+’s Star Wars: Skeleton Crew left Wim, Fern, KB and Neel pretty unscathed… Captain Silvo’s frigate destroyed (and presumably most of his crew dead)… and At Attin’s many vaults full of shiny credits un-plundered.
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Jude Law’s Jod Na Nawood, meanwhile, was last seen watching said frigate take a calamitous digger into an At Attin canal, gravely disappointed to see his grand heist go belly-up, and yet alive to pirate another day. (Read full recap.)
If the kid-friendly, live-action Star Wars series manages to eke out a Season 2 renewal — unpromisingly, it has yet to crack the Nielsen streaming charts in its first two weeks of eligibility — could ally-turned-adversary Jod pull off a heel un-turn of sorts, and help the kids and At Attin fend off a new threat? After all the “hidden” treasure planet, when last we tuned in, was no longer camouflaged by its artificial barrier.
And what if said threat came in the form of a legendary buccaneer from the greater Star Wars universe: Weequay pirate captain Hondo Ohnaka, from the Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels animated series (where he was voiced by Jim Cummings) and ancillary Star Wars projects including the Disney theme parks’ Galaxy’s Edge outpost?
After all, eagle-eyed fans did spot at Skeleton Crew‘s Port Borgo the Katooni, a modified ZH-40 Tribune-class light freighter captained by the infamous smuggler. Hondo, though, was never himself seen — but for good reason.
“No, we don’t have any Hondo,” Skeleton Crew co-creator Christopher Ford told TVLine ahead of the season, as previously shared via Matt’s Inside Line. “Honestly, we love Hondo, but there wasn’t really a part in our story that offered a good enough role for him.
“Like, if we were trying to cast him in this, he would be like, ‘This part is not big enough for Hondo!’” the EP said with a chuckle.
Which is not to say that Skeleton Crew, in success, couldn’t ever feature the interstellar buccaneer. As Ford said, “We would love to keep doing this, and keep exploring the whole pirate side of the galaxy, and build up to that.”
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