The first trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens is live. Here’s what we’ve got:
- John Boyega as a stormtrooper. The armor’s new, and it’s a first to see one of them as person. Rumor has it he’s a protagonist.
- A beachball-shaped R2 unit. It’s less annoying tha Jar-Jar. Then again, so are head lice.
- Menacing stormtroopers being airdropped somewhere. Does this mean some remnant of the Empire is still around?
- Daisy Ridley riding a giant speeder bike. Is that a lightsaber lashed to the side?
- A desert planet, but possibly not Tatooine. Notice the single sun in the final shot.
- X-wings skimming over a lake. The pilots’ uniforms look familiar, but the s-foils are different. Freakin’ x-wings, dude.
- A creepy guy with a red lightsaber. It looks more like a heavy claymore than the agile swords we’re used to seeing. It also looks angry.
- Cue up the John Williams and ermagherd the Falcon.
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