One last look...at our friends.
During last night's ESPN broadcast of Monday Night Football , Disney unveiled the final trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the final episode in the nine-part Skywalker Saga.
The two-minute, 20-second trailer opens with Rey (Daisy Ridley) on a forest planet that looks a lot like the planet Endor from Return of the Jedi. Rey drops a helmet, possibly one left behind by Leia Organa (the late Carrie Fisher), and charges on after activating her lightsaber.
We then hear a voiceover from Finn (John Boyega), who says, "It’s an instinct. A feeling. The Force brought us together."
The scene transitions to Rey landing in the ruins of what might be the second Death Star, now sunken partially into the sea.
As we cut to a gathering of the rebuilt Resistance, we hear another voiceover, this time by Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), who remarks, "We’re not alone. Good people will fight if we lead them."
We cut to Rey, now standing on top of what may be a chunk of Death Star in a raging sea. "People keep telling me they know me," she says in a voiceover. "No one does."
"But I do," says Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) in a voiceover, as we see him emerge into view on the chunk of Death Star without his masked helmet and brandishing his cross-hilt lightsaber.
Next, we glimpse a large iceberg in space as a swarm of TIE fighters approaches. It's hinted that Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) has been hiding out here. We see an empty throne, then hear his sinister voice say in a voiceover, "Long have I waited. And now, your coming together is your undoing."
We see an old Imperial Star Destroyer emerge from the ice, followed by the Millennium Falcon swooping down to lead a huge, ragtag fleet of Resistance ships into battle. Inside the Falcon's cockpit, Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo) and Rey are at the controls, with Finn and Poe sitting down behind them as C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) looks on.
We cut to a fleeting glimpse of Rey and Kylo Ren dueling with their lightsabers on the Death Star chunk, followed by what appears to be an unfinished X-wing fighter comprised of leftover parts.
The scene shifts to C-3PO, who is being operated on by a tiny alien technician named Babu Frik. Poe, Rey, Finn, and new character Zorii Bliss (Keri Russell) look on, with Poe asking, "What, uh...What are you doing there, Threepio?"
Threepio replies in a sad, heartmoving tone, "Taking one last look, sir...at my friends."
As a powerful, uplifting version of the Star Wars theme begins to play, we see glimpses of Poe, Finn and Chewie blasting their way through a corridor full of First Order Stormtroopers, followed by a shot of Leia hugging Rey.
We hear a voiceover from Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) say, "Confronting fear is the destiny of the Jedi. Your destiny."
Next, we see Finn, Poe, C-3PO and BB-8 rocketing through a canyon on some sort of flying sled, followed by Chewie in the Falcon cockpit with Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams), and Finn and new character Jannah (Naomi Ackie) riding tusked alien horses called Orbaks on the surface of a Star Destroyer (!) as BB-8 rolls along beside them.
More fleeting glimpses tease Rey and Kylo Ren in the ruins of Palpatine's throne room on the second Death Star, Rey and Kylo swinging their lightsabers in unison through an unknown figure/statue that shatters, Finn and the other Orbak riders looking up at the fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers around them, and Rey staring up at what is presumably the restored Palpatine on his throne.
As we see a final image of Rey with her lightsaber, we hear Luke's voice say, "The Force will be with you," which is finished by Leia's voice saying, "Always."
If you'd like to check out the trailer, you can view it below thanks to the official Star Wars account on YouTube...
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker arrives in theaters on December 19, 2019.
The end of a ERA for sure.
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