Thanks to all the TV shows on Disney+, Star Wars is no longer just a space opera. The Mandalorian showed the franchise as a space western, The Book of Boba Fett gave us a space crime thriller, and Andor is a nuanced space spy drama. Now the latest series, Skeleton Crew, takes on another new tone as a space pirate story.
But the space pirate genre itself isn’t new at all; the crossover between swashbuckling adventure and science fiction dates back 100 years. It’s not even new for Disney: 22 years before Skeleton Crew’s release, a similar story told in a cutting-edge medium became one of the studio’s most underrated movies.
