Like all Star Wars fans we watched in amazement today the new teaser trailer for Star Wars the Reading through the comments posted in various social media, it appears that the general reaction is very positive while the excitement is certainly very high. The trailer lit up twitter, reddit,facebook and many other social media the moment it was posted online. 2215j
Spoilers below from Star Wars Rebels and the teaser trailer if you haven’t seen it.
The trailer opens up with a view of a desert which one would assume that’s located in Star Wars Rebels takes place 15 years after Episode III and “Force Awakens” is essentially “Episode VII”, then we could be seeing an adult version of Zare during the trailer.
Zare Leonis in “The Force Awakens” and “Rebels”
The second hint that was long rumored to be true was the design of the new storm trooper helmets and the general upgrade their armor would get. To be honest I really like the new “futuristic” design – it pays homage to the original movies but at the same time shows hints of progress. The same can be said about the stormtrooper rifles. We only get a few seconds to see them but one can certainly assume that the “deecees” (for DC-15) are long gone.
On the next scene we see come up with something conclusive. The arch on the background certainly looks familiar (Anchorhead maybe?)
Daisy Ridley as Jaina Solo?
And then original trilogy remainl in the cockpit. For example, notice the targeting computer on the upper right of the pilot.
Same old “bird”, same old equipment for the good guys!
X-Wings still looking good after all these years!
Then comes what we assume to be the villain of the movie. It’s rumored that Adam Driver is going to be carrying an excalibur-like lightsaber as Mark Hamill suggested in a 1983 interview (see below for clip)? Only time will tell!
Then comes the best scene of the trailer in my opinion; The changes on those from the original trilogy.
The Millennium Falcon is back and with some upgrades!
The Falcon is the last thing we see before the familiar Abrams’ gentle interventions in the visuals of Star Wars and definitely look forward to see more over the next couple of months!
