We'd heard that Star Wars: Skeleton Crew was going to be released at the end of 2023, but with just a month or so of the year left, it's been obvious for a while now that it wouldn't arrive in time for the holidays.
As far as we're aware, shooting wrapped some time ago, hence why fans at Star Wars Celebration were treated to a trailer. Now, both Bespin Bulletin and Making Star Wars are reporting that the Disney+ series created by Jon Watts and Christopher Ford has been delayed by an entire year.
Some might argue that, when it never had an official premiere date, the show can't technically have been delayed. It's a fair observation, but this is still a much longer wait than we'd anticipated. As things stand, The Mandalorian spin-off won't arrive until Thanksgiving - Christmas, 2024.
Likely as a result of this year's WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike, it seems The Acolyte will be first to arrive next year (probably late summer) with Andor season 2 pushed to 2025 after previously being confirmed for an August '24 launch.
As for The Mandalorian season 4, it seems the strikes may have benefited that series, but it too is unlikely to be released until 2025. That's also a little disappointing, of course, but on the plus side, we are anticipating seeing The Acolyte, Skeleton Crew, The Bad Batch, and Tales of the Jedi next year.
"I can't tell you very much about my character," Skeleton Crew star Jude Law previously said of his mysterious Jedi. "He is someone the children meet on their attempt to get home. He is like a lot of the world that they experience: contradictory, and at times a place of nurture and other times a place of threat."
"Because it's through their eyes, at times there's a sort of goofy nature and a goofy relationship between the kids and the adults. And then other times it's really quite dark and quite scary, which I guess is what the world probably looks like to an awful lot of 11-year-olds."
Skeleton Crew follows the journey of four kids who make a mysterious discovery on their seemingly safe home planet, and then get lost in a strange and dangerous galaxy. Finding their way home - and meeting unlikely allies and enemies - will be a greater adventure than they ever imagined.
Jude Law leads the series and is joined by young actors Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Kyriana Kratter, Robert Timothy Smith, and Ryan Kiera Armstrong. Tunde Adebimpe and Kerry Condon also star, while the directing team consists of Jon Watts, Christopher Ford, David Lowery, the Daniels, Jake Schreier, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Lee Isaac Chung.
Stay tuned for more on the series as we have it.