The latest Star Wars show, Skeleton Crew, was inspired by a LucasArts series of adventure game⭕s.

The Monkey Island series followed Guybrush Threepwood, a pirate who went up against an evil (and undead) pirate named LeChuck. And pirates, aඣs it turns out, are a huge influence on Ske♚leton Crew.

The show is set in the same post-Return of The Jedi time period as The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett and Ahsoka, and that's no accident. With the New Republic doing i༒ts best to govern while burying its head in the sand about the rise of those pesky Imperial remnants, it's the sort o👍f quasi-anarchic environment where Star Wars tends to thrive.

"A reason we decided to set it then was because you don't have a big, powerful government like the Old Republic or the Empire to scoop them up if they’re lost," co-showrunner Christopher Ford tells 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:SFX magazine in the new issue, which features Doctor Who's Christmas special 'Joy to the World' on the cover and hits newsstands on Decemb♎er 3. "It's a bit more of aꦜ lawless time, bringing in aspects of the Old West – which is, I think, why [Mandalorian/Ahsoka overseers] Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni were attracted to it as a period for The Mandalorian. Also, pirates flourish when there's open seas."

So, how do pirates – and Monkey Island – come into play? "There's a fun thematic parallel between our kids and the pirate crew," co-showrunner Jon Watts points out. "In a lot of ways, pirates are grown-up kids who don't want to follow rules and just want to go on th꧑eir own way, arguing about who g💞ets to be the captain.

"It was great to go back and watch old pirate serials as an influence, swashbuckling epics like The Sea Hawk [1940] and Captain Blood [1935]," he continues. "Also, my other huge 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Lucasfilm fandom iꦺs the Monkey Island games. I loved all of the pirate things in those, and felt like we could bring a little hint of that to Skeleton Crew."

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Skeleton Crew releases on December 3 in the US and December 4 in the UK. Read more in , which features Doctor Who's Christmas special 'Joy to the World' on the cover and hits newsstands on Tuesday, December 3. Check out the𒀰 fittingly festive ༒cover below...

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