What you may need to know:
1.To paraphrase Ron Burgundy – this is kind of a big deal.
2. No sign of Han, Luke or Leia (or our Domhnall for that matter) but there’s just enough here to whet our collective appetite.
3. So Oscar Isaac is a rebel, John Boyega’s a stormtrooper and I’m guessing that’s Adam Driver looking all dark and eeeevil with the funky lightsabre. And Daisy Ridley is the spit of her Ma.
4. Why do they keep messing with the lightsabres? They must be like iPhones. Goddamn Apple.
5. Okay, so we had a collective nerdgasm over the first trailer for The Phantom Menace in 1998 too, and everyone knows how that panned out. If that wacky droid has more than 3 seconds of screen time, it might be an issue.
6. “If George Lucas calls, I’m not in.” The main reason to be optimistic about this is that Lucas is not involved.
7. Feel free to add lens flare comments below.
8. Broadsheet Prognosis: Hell, yeah.
Release Date: December 18, 2015.
(DelBoy has written the Lyric Theatre’s 2014 pantomime, Sleeping Beauty. We wish him the very best of luck with it. Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)
And the voice over? Benedict Cumberbatch…. is there nothing this guy can’t do!?! *swoons*
Apparently it’s Andy Serkis providing the V/O.
actually its Max von Sydow
or possibly Andy Serkis as rumored
It’s Andy Serkis actually.
both I think… is that a different voice that says “the light”?
This is getting increasingly difficult to masturbate to.
Careful which way you point that light saber !
a Star wars, the force awakens
Actually it’s Leonard Cohen.
It is always Morgan Freeman
i thought it sounded like Javier Bardem…feel the force, friendo.
Say ‘penguin’.
That doesn’t sound like Cumberbatch, though. If anything, I’d say it’s Max von Sydow. I’m excited. Well, hopeful. I’ll be excited when I see more trailers.
Nothing in it to get your teeth into.
The hype awakens
It’s a teaser, the entire point of it is hype.
The sound of the TIE fighter was enough for me.
I’m in.
I’m too busy swooning to argue :D
Hope it’s absolutely brilliant, but nearly everything in that trailer is a rehash and reference to previous films, which doesn’t bode well considering the previous for of Mr. Abrams , unless you’re one of those sick freaks who actually enjoyed the plotless, a-logical, paper thin charcterised, reference-soaked shit stained tramp cabin of a film that was Star Trek 2, Edge of Darkness.
The loop the loop, millennium falcon bit was a teensy bit squee inducing.
*errant ‘of’
I liked it
His first one was good though… but yeah, the second Star Trek was a mess for me :)
I prefer the 2nd to the 1st. Eric banas antagonist is bland and the plot is blah.
saw the “first” star wars again recently. total crap.
Ha yeah you can even see the props shaking in it.
Yeah, but Citizen Kane seems fairly meh at this point too. It changed things.
looks like the MF has a new satelitte after it lost the round one in the Death Star mkII
sounds like enda kenny
I have a bad feeling about this
Looks like it could be class. Much sharper resolution than the last three by looks of it.
ahem! Phantom Menace was released in 1999! Sheesh!
Con – the trailer (which I linked to) was released in 1998.
I’m trying very hard not to get excited for this film and Jurassic World. I’ve been hurt too many times before.
Luckily neither George Lucas nor the once god director Steven Spielberg have little to do with either. Probably an EP credit on each, and I think Lucas is “story consultant” or something similarly meaningless.
I know this might be a minority opinion but I thought the phantom menace was the best of them.
bring on jar jar binks I say!
are you with me gang?
That’ll be a no no.
Bagpuss, you and Jar Jar can go f**k yourselves.
how rude!
you su`m muoy mouy bad peoples
It’s a trap!
I’m a Star Wars!
No lens flare! I’m in JJ. A whole year of teasing ahead.
He apologised about the lens flare. In fairness, I didn’t really notice it till it was pointed out to me and those anamorphic lenses do give lovely lens flare.