Yahoo Lifestyle Skeleton Crew Creators Talk Stealth Marvel Cameo, Neel/Hayna’s Future and Outlook for Jod’s Redemption
The following contains spoilers from the full season of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, now streaming on Disney+.
Disney+’s Star Wars: Skeleton Crew wrapped its eight-episode run on Jan. 14, with a finale in which Wim, Fern, KB and Neel (played by Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Kyriana Kratter and Robert Timothy Smith) dodged all manner of perilous situations, all as Jod Na Nawood (Jude Law) chased after the shiny, golden score of a lifetime.
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Coming out of the finale, will it continue to be a pirate’s life for Jod the defeated quasi-Jedi? (Speaking of which, who was his long-ago mentor?) Will Neel and his At Achrann crush be able to make a go of it? And what Marvel doc was slipped into an earlier episode?
TVLine spoke hit Skeleton Crew creators Jon Watts (director of Spider-Man: No Way Home) and Christopher Ford (Spider-Man: Homecoming writer) with a few of our end-of-season questions.
TVLINE | At any point in the season, were you tempted to work in a reference/Easter egg from another Star Wars property, but had to reel yourselves in?
JON WATTS | We never wanted to do that, honestly — not because it wouldn’t have been awesome, but it starts to make the world feel really small when people keep running into the same people. Like, it’s a big galaxy and the the story that we were trying to tell is that — this is a big galaxy, the kids are overwhelmed, they don’t know anyone. It’s enough for them to see X-wings and not know what they are; that’s an Easter egg crossover for us. But because it starts small and secluded, in the future we could potentially… like, I’d love to see, “Where does Fern end up as she’s growing up, who does she meet?” I’d love to see Fern meet, I don’t know, Mon Mothma or something. That would be extremely cool. But we wanted to start small and and earn it on our own without leaning on anything like that.
CHRISTOPHER FORD | We were so focused on making just our story work, and then we were going to look back through it and see if there was a good place for anything, but it was like, “Oh, I think we we’ve got it.”
WATTS | No one discouraged us from doing it. We just never wanted to.
TVLINE | How did you decide on Nick Frost and Stephen Fry to respectively voice SM-33 and the Supervisor? And were there any other, stealthier voice cameos people may have missed?
WATTS | It was this weird thing where when we would read through the scripts ahead before doing any casting, we were just sort of doing the voice that felt right. And then you realize you’re just doing Nick Frost doing a pirate voice, or, “That’s a Stephen Fry delivery.” So, can we get them?
FORD | And that’s the crazy part, that they said yes!
WATTS | And there are people that we’ve worked with in the past….
FORD | There’s this great guy who plays a salesman on Borgo. You kind of see him in the background and hear his voice, and it’s this amazing filmmaker/artist Alan Reznick.
WATTS | I did get Alfred Molina to do the voice of the Ishi Tib pirate [Benjar Pranic, whom Jod ran into in Episode 3 when stealing back SM-33]. It was one of those things where “I think I’m doing a bad Alfred Molina cockney accent when I’m reading the script out loud,” but let’s just see if he’ll do it.
TVLINE | Can you give a hint of what Jod’s immediate future might look like? Last we saw, he was there inside the Supervisor’s tower, watching his frigate take the world’s most epic digger into a canal.
WATTS | It’s all about what you think he’s thinking at that very last moment. Like, there’s this little sort of glimmer that comes across his face. We have an idea of what might happen to him, but it’s been really fun to see people project onto that final moment what they think he’s thinking, what they think he’ll do next….
TVLINE | I did write a story speculating that Hondo Ohnaka is the Season 2 threat, and Jod finds himself helping protect At Attin from this legendary fellow pirate.
WATTS | I do feel like if Jod has any chance of redeeming himself, he has to go through a pretty serious gauntlet after everything that he did to the kids in this season.
FORD | Yeah! Like, what the hell, man?!
TVLINE | Young Jod’s ill-fated mentor, did you have anybody from any ancillary Star Wars property in mind for who that woman was? [Quanitco alum Yasmine Al Massri has since revealed that she filmed finale scenes as said Jedi, but they got cut.]
WATTS | It’s always fun to leave those things open-ended. It kind of was becoming a thing of, “How many Order 66 survivors are there?” But you had to give the Inquisitor something to do, so it definitely worked.
TVLINE | Lastly and perhaps most importantly: Will Neel and Hayna find a way to keep in touch?
FORD | Yeah, they’re gonna be pen pals, totally. But it’s like having a girlfriend in Canada — no one’s going to believe him. [Laughs] The real question is, will it create tension with his crush on At Attin [classmate Roona]?
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