Star Wars The Force Awakens | What We Know Now

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Well after a weekend full of anticipation

and teaser videos,

the trailer we've been waiting for finally hit last night.

Yes, Grown Ups 3 is finally upon us.

No, of course we're talking about

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

third official full length trailer.

So what do we know?

Well, we open on a masked character that we assume is Rey,

played by Daisy Ridley.

And then we see her walking across a desert landscape

with everyone's favorite rolling droid, BB-8.

We assume that planet is Jakku, the desert planet.

We also see Rey and Han Solo meet up.

She says something to him about the stories

that we've heard about your adventures.

He says all of it is true.

So we think those tales have been suppressed to a degree

that no one knows for sure whether the events of

A New Hope, and Empire, and Return of the Jedi are true.

But when we bring the new generation

and the old generation together,

you know that this is effectively gonna be the engine

that drives at least the first installment

in the new series of films.

We don't see anyone we haven't seen before.

We may have caught a glimpse

of Domhnall Gleeson's character, Hux,

during an assemblage of storm troopers.

We still haven't seen

Andy Serkis's character, Snoke,

the supreme leader of the First Order.

You know who we don't see?

We don't see Luke Skywalker.

And he wasn't on the poster either.

So what's going on with Luke?

That's the question that everyone seems

to keep asking themselves.

Beyond that there's some new aerial combat shots,

there's a new shot of the Millennium Falcon

going through hyper-speed,

which is actually a really nice bridge between

the old effects of the original trilogy,

and then a more nebulous kind of cloud thing

as the Falcon shoots out of it.

It just gives you a sense of how the practical effects

of the original trilogy and the new digital effects

that of course they have to be working with

are gonna meld in the new movie.

At any rate we don't know if there's

a new trailer yet to come,

but even if we don't,

December 18th the movie will be in theaters,

and we'll see you there.

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