Trailer for ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Goes Online
THE NEW YORK TIMES
HOLLYWOOD---This will be a day long remembered by fans of science-fiction fantasies, aficionados of mega-budget movie franchises and viewers who regard the “Star Wars” series with a reverence bordering on the religious. On Friday morning, Lucasfilm released a teaser trailer online for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” the first new live-action “Star Wars” film in nearly a decade, which will open theatrically in December 2015. Though less than 90 seconds long and offering only the barest glimpses of a motion picture that audiences cannot see for more than a year, the “Star Wars” trailer set off an instantaneous wave of online analysis and armchair commentary: a cycle of approval, criticism, and criticism of that criticism after the trailer’s release. [link]
By Dave Itzkoff
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The less-than-90-second trailer from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" offers a tiny glimpse at a movie to come in December 2015. Credit Lucasfilm Ltd |