Skip to main content

Watch the first TV spot for Star Wars: The Force Awakens

star wars the force awakens tv ad teaser  4
Image used with permission by copyright holder
The last few weeks have been very, very good to Star Wars fans craving an early peek at the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens (and very, very bad for anyone attempting to stay blissfully ignorant of the movie’s content), with a new trailer released back in October, then a new international trailer, and now a new television spot for the film — all packed with fresh footage.

And much like that aforementioned international trailer released last week, the new TV ad keeps the focus on Daisy Ridley’s character in the film, Rey.

Recommended Videos

Disney and Lucasfilm released the commercial for The Force Awakens via Twitter, and the brief (31 seconds) teaser for the much-anticipated sequel manages to pack a lot of action into its short running time — mostly involving Ridley’s Rey.

Along with Ridley’s character, the commercial also gives some screen time to Harrison Ford’s iconic smuggler Han Solo and newcomer John Boyega’s character, Finn, and teases some intense air and space battles involving the Millennium Falcon and various other ships.

https://twitter.com/twitter/status/663370431877918720

Set 30 years after the events of Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens introduces a new set of heroes and villains to the Star Wars universe, while also bringing back a long list of fan-favorite characters from the previous films. The film stars returning cast members Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker, as well as newcomers John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Max von Sydow, Lupita Nyong’o, Gwendoline Christie, Crystal Clarke, Pip Anderson, Christina Chong, and Miltos Yerolemou.

The Force Awakens is directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay penned by Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, and Michael Arndt.

Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens hits theaters December 18, 2015. It will be followed on December 16, 2016, by Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, then Star Wars: Episode VIII on May 26, 2017, and the Han Solo anthology movie on May 25, 2018.

Rick Marshall
A veteran journalist with more than two decades of experience covering local and national news, arts and entertainment, and…
Shawn Levy’s Star Wars movie finds a writer
Shawn Levy poses for a photo on the left, and the Star Wars logo is located on the right.

Shawn Levy is heading to a galaxy far, far away, and he's bringing a friend with him.

Per Jeff Sneider of The Insneider, Jonathan Tropper will pen Levy's Star Wars movie. Levy and Tropper have collaborated on several projects together, including 2014's This Is Where I Leave You and 2022's The Adam Project, with the latter being Netflix's third-most-popular movie in the streamer's history.

Read more
The Acolyte can’t escape Star Wars’ biggest Jedi problem
Sol stands between Jecki and Yord in The Acolyte.

Across its first three episodes, The Acolyte has gotten off to a propulsive, if imperfect, start. The series, created by Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland, is one of the only truly original (i.e., not a spinoff) pieces of Star Wars media that Disney has produced in the 12 years since it acquired Lucasfilm. As depressing as that is in and of itself, it's also helped The Acolyte. The show, for all of its flaws, feels fresh. It isn't weighed down or suffocatingly constricted by the events of any other Star Wars movie or TV show and, therefore, has the freedom to explore its characters and plot exactly how it wants.

That doesn't mean The Acolyte has been able to completely avoid making the same mistakes as all of the Star Wars titles that have come before it. On the contrary, the series, which focuses on the reemergence of the Sith near the end of the High Republic era, has struggled in its depiction of the Jedi Order. The Acolyte has, consequently, revived an issue that has plagued its franchise ever since 1999's Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace.
Are the Jedi cool samurai or boo-worthy space cops?

Read more
10 best Star Wars shows ever, ranked
Diego Luna walks through a scrapyard of ships in a scene from Andor.

Prior to the launch of Disney+ in 2019, there were no Star Wars live-action shows, and only a handful of animated series. The earliest Star Wars cartoons from the '80s, Droids and Ewoks, barely resembled anything from the movies. Decades later, Star Wars: The Clone Wars provided the blueprint for the franchise's animation resurgence, which in turn helped pave the way for The Mandalorian and the rest of the live-action shows.

To celebrate the release of The Acolyte, we're taking a look back at the 10 best Star Wars shows ever. But we reserve the right to revise our listings as more Star Wars series arrive on Disney+ in the future.
10. The Book of Boba Fett

Read more