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Everything Everywhere All At Once directors join Star Wars show Skeleton Crew

By Dan Selcke

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 12: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, winners of the Best Director award for ’Everything Everywhere All at Once’, pose in the press room during the 95th Annual Academy Awards at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images)
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 12: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, winners of the Best Director award for ’Everything Everywhere All at Once’, pose in the press room during the 95th Annual Academy Awards at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images) /
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Everything Everywhere All At Once was the clear winner at this year’s Oscars; it won Best Picture, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan won acting honors, and writer-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (known collectively as the Daniels) took home awards for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. The movie was a blast of sci-fi originality and it was great to see it get justly rewarded.

So what are the Daniels going to do with their notoriety? Sell out, baby! Just kidding. Mostly. The Hollywood Reporter has it that the pair will direct at least one episode of the upcoming Star Wars show Skeleton Crew, which is about a group of kids and teenagers who find themselves having to run a spaceship in order to get home. And also Jude Law is there. It’s been described as “Star Wars does Stranger Things.”

The show could be amazing, although given how refreshingly creative Everything Everywhere was I’d prefer the Daniels come up with more original ideas. But they have inked a five-year deal with Universal, so maybe Skeleton Crew is just a side gig.

Damon Lindelof leaves Star Wars movie

As one high-profile talent visits the galaxy far, far away, so does another leave. Above the Line reports that Damon Lindelof, the guy behind Lost and The Leftovers, has left the crew of an upcoming Star Wars movie to be directed by Oscar winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Reportedly, Lindelof and his co-screenwriter Justin Britt-Gibson turned in a script in February and left the projects days later. There’s already a new writer on the project, but we don’t know who.

This news comes not long after Lindelof made some interesting comments about Star Wars at SXSW:

"I will just say, that for reasons that I can’t get into on this Sunday morning, on this day, the degree of difficulty is extremely, extremely, extremely high. If it can’t be great, it shouldn’t exist. That’s all I’ll say, because I have the same association with it as you do, which is, it’s the first movie I saw sitting in my dad’s lap, four years old, May of ’77. I think it’s possible that sometimes when you hold something in such high reverence and esteem, you start to get in the kitchen and you just go, ‘Maybe I shouldn’t be cooking. Maybe I should just be eating.’ We’ll just leave it at that."

While Disney has lots of Star Wars shows in development, it’s had trouble shoring up its slate of Star Wars movies, having also recently shelved films due to be produced by Patty Jenkins and Kevin Feige. At least The Mandalorian is continuing without interruption:

dark. Next. The Mandalorian may set up the Star Wars sequel trilogy in “The Convert”

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