The guessing game currently is underway. When will we see a trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and what will the tease entail? Some figure it will be in theaters around Christmas (roughly a year before the sequel opens). Others have pegged Super Bowl Sunday as the screening date. We don’t have a concrete date as to when you will see the first footage for The Force Awakens, but we did just hear a description of the footage that might be shown.
Badass Digest quotes a source saying that the first footage from J.J. Abrams Star Wars sequel is coming soon. "Within the next four to five weeks," the site reports. And what will the clip show? They describe it as a very short tease – running up to a minute, but probably not more. They say it will have The Force Theme played on woodwind instruments, and will flash through a visual montage of the main characters in the movie, each fading to black. According to Bad, there’s no dialogue in the clip, just shots of the main characters. By the end of the reel, the orchestra swells to a full roar, and a female voice – possibly Daisy Ridley – says, "Wake up."
Get it? The Force AWAKENS. Set your alarm clocks, young Jedi. The clip finally ends, according to this description, with the Millennium Falcon "coming right at the camera." End of clip. The site doesn’t say for certain this is the clip. But they do trust the sources, saying they have been right about numerous things in the past.
What do you think? Is this what you were hoping to get out of the first teaser trailer? The rumor is that the music in the tease is recently recorded compositions by John Williams, meaning that the teaser would tick off more than a few things we said we were looking for in the first bit of footage. I was hoping for a bit more plot in the first teaser. Then again, let’s all remember how excited we were when The Phantom Menace unveiled its first reel of footage.
Temper expectations! Star Wars: The Force Awakens rises and shines on Dec. 18, 2015. The trailer should be here before we know it.
