Star Wars Celebration is in the rear view mirror and Star Wars Weekends is just ahead, but we’re still learning new bits about Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Today we have two new images focusing on Rey, her droid BB-8, and the planet Jakku. As… Read More »Rey and BB-8 featured in new official pictures from Star Wars: The Force Awakens
New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer – Watch it and then join in the dissection in the comments
The new #StarWars Teaser Trailer starts with some pretty impressive visuals and then packs even more into it’s 2 minute length.
So without any further ado:
Breaking it down here. I’ll update as we learn more:
I love that Luke Skywalker starts off with some over-dialogue that implies there are new users of the Force out there. Gave me tingles down my spine.
We see a crashed Destroyer from the Empire on planet Jakku and landspeeder passes in front of it (Is this Rey on that speeder bike?).
A cloaked figure kneels by R2D2, we assume it’s Luke since he and R2 D2 are close, oh and the bionic hand thing.
We then see a young girl (possibly Rey) giving that cloaked figure a Lightsaber.
Not a lot of news around the Galaxy these days, but what it lacks in quantity, it certainly makes up for in quality. Recapping the news from Thursday, Star Wars Episode VIII has a release date. Bob Iger announced this week at the annual shareholders… Read More »Star Wars News Round Up
We’re now 314 days away from the most anticipated movie of the year, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The movie is in post-production which means soon it will be in the hands of director J.J. Abrams and his editor who are now working on the… Read More »J.J. Abrams on “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” IMAX, and that new Lightsaber
What happens if you reduce the Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser trailer to its basic forms and highlight them as beams of neon? You get a trailer that feels like it could be set in the world of Disney’s TRON:
Okay, that’s not quite exactly TRON. But I do like it.
This trailer was made by UK artist “Neonardo” who designs animation as if it was done entirely in neon. The effect is simple and fun drawing out the essence of what makes the trailer work.
Neonardo has also created an incredible animated neon take on the Marvel Ant-Man poster. Check it out below:
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In the latest video from the set of Star Wars, J.J. Abrams and the crew from Star Wars Episode VII thanks fans for their support of the “Force for Change” initiative to support UNICEF. Earlier videos from Abrams included a look at part of a… Read More »Star Wars Thanks Fans for Generosity
There are two new fan made t-shirts representing some of the awesome stuff we saw in the first preview trailer for Episode vii, aka Star Wars: The Force Awakens on Tee Fury today.
The first tee from zerobriant is available for the first time anywhere on Tee Fury. It features the best elements from the 39 seconds we all saw in the episode 7 trailer. From Rey on the bike to the Millennium Falcon, it’s all there.
Secondly, if you have a little sith blood in your veins, you may enjoy this new lightsaber shirt that glows in the dark with Red Fluorescent ink.
As a bonus, you won’t want to miss these shoes that feature Karen Hallion’s amazing Belle and Doctor Who mashup design.Read More »Star Wars: The Force Awakens Fan T-Shirt on Tee Fury
Star Wars fans rejoice! Character names for The Force Awakens have been revealed! While these reveals are kept mainly to those characters in the recent trailer, it is still very exciting. Probably the coolest thing about this reveal is how they did it. Using Topp’s… Read More »Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Character Trading Cards