Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker: First trailer with a big WTF
The trailer for "Star Wars: Episode IX - Rise of Skywalker" doesn't give much away. But the epic atmosphere is there.
Christmas can come. Because according to Disney's in-house exhibition D23, a trailer for the third film in the third Star Wars trilogy entitled "Star Wars: Episode IX - Rise of Skywalker" has just gone online.
The trailer begins innocuously enough, with clips from old films and announcements such as "The story of a generation" and so on. But then the clips from the new film.
Spoiler warning: If you continue reading after the video, you'll get spoilers for the trailer.
The action gets more down-to-earth
The trailer seems to leave out the space battles that defined the eighth instalment. Sure, there are impressive images of X-wings braking from the speed of light.
And then a fleet of Star Destroyers. Wow.
Even when Finn reappears, the battle between Rey and Kylo Ren on a boat is the dominant scene in the short trailer, in which each scene consists of just a few frames.
Are the alliances shifting?
Even more exciting, however, is the fact that good characters suddenly switch to the dark side of the Force - purely according to the colour coding.
Okay, C3PO still works. But then there's this scene, right at the end.
You can't tell much from the trailer.
But you know what's really good? This picture. Thank you, Leia. Thank you, Carrie. Rest in peace.
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