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holds a special place in Jude Law 's heart. While exclusively speaking to PEOPLE at the D23 Expo, the actor, 51, opened up about how the intergalactic franchise has had a big impact on him since childhood and inspired him to pursue the series. Sharing how he was at "the prime age" of 10 or nine years old when the original movie released, Law admitted, "I think it's fair to say I can't really remember life before Star Wars. I mean, Star Wars and the phenomenon of that first film...

The Star Wars universe continues to expand on streaming television with the release of the first trailer for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew this weekend at Disney's annual D23 Expo. The eight-episode standalone series is set in the same time frame as The Mandalorian and Ahsoka. Executive producer Kathleen Kennedy was intrigued when series co-creator Jon Watts pitched a Star Wars series inspired by the 1985 film The Goonies. (Kennedy had co-produced that film and co-founded Amblin Entertainment.) She told co-creator Christopher Ford that The Goonies hadn't been created specifically for...

The galaxy far, far away is about to add another starry member to its ranks. Oscar-nominee Jude Law was on hand in Anaheim, California on Friday night at D23 – Disney’s massive fan expo that drew a crowd of 12,000 – to present “Skeleton Crew,” a new “Star Wars” series set to premiere on Disney+ in December. Ahead of unveiling the first-look trailer, Law billed the new series as “a timeless adventure story in the spirit of the Amblin coming-of-age films from the ’80s,” mentioning 1985’s “The Goonies” and “E.T.”...

Star Wars goes Goonies in the first trailer for Skeleton Crew, the franchise’s latest spinoff series coming to Disney+ in December. In the preview, which debuted at Disney’s D23 expo Friday, a bunch of space kids leave the safe-but-boring confines of their intergalactic suburb after stumbling across a hidden Jedi temple, leading them on an adventure across the galaxy. At some point in their journey, the kids wind up behind bars with a Force-wielding figure (and maybe a Jedi?) played by Jude Law. The actor was on hand for Skeleton...

Disney+ has released the trailer for “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,” a coming-of-age television series starring Jude Law that will debut on December 3. The show follows four kids — played by Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Kyriana Kratter, Robert Timothy Smith and Ryan Kiera Armstrong — who make a strange discovery on their planet that they believe is a lost Jedi temple, but instead appears to be a crashed starship. The kids get lost in the galaxy and find themselves on an adventure, where they encounter Law’s character, Jod Na Nawood, a mysterious...