Star Wars: Skeleton Crew was in part inspired by the point and click Monkey Island games.
The latest Star Wars show stars Jude Law as Jod Na Nawood. “Skeleton Crew tells the story of four kids searching for their home planet after getting lost in the Star Wars galaxy, and the strange aliens and dangerous places they encounter on their adventure,” reads the official synopsis on Disney Plus.
But, what has all that got to do with Monkey Island, I hear you ask?
Well, it all starts with those kids mentioned above. “There’s a fun thematic parallel between our kids and the pirate crew,” co-showrunner Jon Watts told SFX magazine (via GamesRadar). “In a lot of ways, pirates are grown-up kids who don’t want to follow rules and just want to go on their own way, arguing about who gets to be the captain.”