Taking advantage of the D23 Expo, Disney unveiled Monday a new trailer for the next episode of the Star Wars saga, "The Ascension Skywalker." A video that quickly made the tour of the Web, and plays skilfully on the art of teasing.
Star Wars: The Ascension of Skywalker
Star Wars: The Ascension of Skywalker Trailer VO
In fact, almost half of the 2 minutes and 11 seconds of trailer are devoted to images of previous trilogies: the original of George Lucas, the second of the 2000s, then the latest that have been distributed by directors Rian Johnson ( for episode 8) and JJ Abrams, back in command of the 9th part after signing the 7th.
Has Rey gone to the dark side?
Once the nostalgic sequence is over, the trailer features unseen images. Young Rey and her companions in the desert, but also Princess Léia still embodied by Carrie Fisher. The actress is dead, it is probably rushes from previous shootings will be used, JJ Abrams has already meant that he would not use digital processes to make his character exist on the screen.
But it is especially the last image that should excite the fans of the universe created by George Lucas. While, the second previous, Rey was fighting against Kylo Ren, the young woman appears this time hood on the head and lightsaber of red color in the hand. The Sith fetish uniform, which is already pushing some to wonder if it has gone to the dark side of the force (when the most skeptical will simply conclude to a dream of the Jedi).
Add to that a C-3PO with abnormally red eyes and a huge fleet of Imperial destroyers, and there we find the quintessence of what makes the trailer of a saga ever more "bankable".