Ironically, none of these recent turns seems to have affected me as much as Jude Law playing a shifty, Force-sensitive space pirate in the coming-of-age children’s yarn, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew.

Benjar Pranic’s single scene (so far) shows his fateful encounter with Jude Law’s Jod. In the scene, Jod sneaks back into the pirate outpost to retrieve SM-33. On the droid depot, he meets ...