After nearly two years of waiting, the much anticipated finale to the Skywalker Saga finally has a name: “The Rise of Skywalker.”
Disney unveiled the first trailer for Star Wars: Episode IX.
The film will not take place directly after the events of “The Last Jedi,” director J.J. Abrams said Friday during the “Star Wars: Episode IX” panel at Star Wars Celebration in Chicago.
The trailer features voice over from Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, telling Rey, “This is your fight.”
She is carrying his hand-me-down saber, now mended following the events of “The Last Jedi,” and staring down the barrel of Kylo Ren’s TIE fighter in a desert.
Through several cuts we see characters from the previous two films in the newest “Star Wars” trilogy as well as returning favorites like Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian.
The trailer wraps with ominous theme music and cackling laughter, which sounds quite a bit like Hamill himself. Although, once the trailer was shown at the panel, Ian McDiarmid, the actor behind Emperor Sheev Palpatine, appeared from backstage telling the tech team to roll the clip again.
Source:CNBC
