- Skeleton Crew‘s creators hope they’re going to get to make a second season
- However, the indicators do not look good for the Disney Plus present’s renewal
- Skeleton Crew‘s characters might seem in one other Star Wars challenge, although
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew‘s creators have revealed that they are “dreaming” of creating a second season, but it surely’s wanting probably that the present will not return for an additional outing.
Speaking to TechRadar, Jon Watts and Christopher Ford mentioned that, within the occasion that their collection is renewed, they’ve provide you with “totally different prospects” about the place the story might go subsequent.
Asked in the event that they’d mentioned what a sequel season’s plot would possibly entail forward of the Star Wars present’s season 1 finale, which airs tonight (January 14) within the US and tomorrow (January 15) within the UK and Australia, Watts informed me: “Yeah, we needed to verify this season had a satisfying starting, center, and finish. But, if folks wish to see extra Skeleton Crew, we might be glad to make extra.”
“We’re dreaming of it [a second season],” Ford added. “We’ve provide you with totally different prospects, so by no means say by no means.”
Will Skeleton Crew get renewed for a second season on Disney Plus?
Despite Skeleton Crew‘s optimistic crucial reception – learn my Star Wars: Skeleton Crew assessment to see what I considered it – a second season seems unlikely.
Per not too long ago launched knowledge by Nielsen, a good US viewers measurement firm, the Disney Plus collection did not crack Nielsen’s Top 10 streaming record for the week working December 9 to fifteen, 2024 – i.e., the seven day interval after the present debuted on one of many world’s greatest streaming companies. Fellow TV Originals together with A.P Blo and A Man on the Inside, plus Jamie Foxx’s Netflix comedy particular, accrued extra minutes streamed than Skeleton Crew did.
According to Star Wars fansite The Jedi Temple Archives, Skeleton Crew did not break into the Top 10 most-watched TV exhibits record from Luminate, one other leisure trade knowledge agency, for that week both. In reality, Skeleton Crew‘s 384 hundreds of thousands minutes seen is the bottom complete ever for a Star Wars collection’ premiere. The Book of Boba Fett had held that report with 389 million minutes amassed following its one-episode premiere in December 2021. Even The Acolyte, which wasn’t as profitable as Disney and Lucasfilm hoped it will be, racked up 488 million minutes streamed in its first seven days on the platform.
There are caveats to those viewing figures, although. Nielsen and Luminate’s knowledge solely pertains to US households, so Skeleton Crew‘s worldwide ‘million minutes streamed’ haul will probably be larger than what’s been reported. It’s additionally potential that, like Andor‘s first season, optimistic phrase of mouth might have helped episodes 3 to 7 to carry out higher. We will not know in the event that they did, although, till Nielsen and Luminate launch these chapters’ viewing figures within the weeks forward.
If Disney decides towards greenlighting a second season, Skeleton Crew‘s season 1 finale is probably not the top of its characters’ adventures in Lucasfilm’s iconic galaxy far, distant. Indeed, with one among Star Wars’ many new motion pictures set to carry characters collectively from exhibits together with The Mandalorian and Star Wars: Ahsoka, for a team-up film, there’s each probability that Skeleton Crew‘s younger stars may very well be a part of the proceedings. That, Watts and Ford informed me, is one thing they’d be open to exploring.
There’s at all times an opportunity that they might meet some shocking folks sooner or later
Jon Watts, Skeleton Crew co-creator
“It’s thrilling to consider,” Watts mentioned. “We’ve primarily been targeted on telling this story, however there’s at all times an opportunity that they [the kids] might meet some shocking folks sooner or later.”
“What’s thrilling about these characters is the children are literally child actors,” Ford added, “And they’re rising up. So, in the event that they appeared in one thing else, we might be telling the story of how they grew up and located their place within the galaxy.”
Don’t be shocked, then, if Wim and firm present up in Lucasfilm chief artistic officer Dave Filoni’s Avengers-style Star Wars film. And let’s hope additionally they seem in a second season of what’s, in my opinion, probably the greatest Disney Plus exhibits shortly.
