Watch Stormtroopers Fly In The New 'Star Wars: Rise Of Skywalker' Clip
A new clip from the upcoming Star Wars film, The Rise of Skywalker, just landed on the Star Wars Youtube channel. And it contains a thrilling, if scary, new threat – flying Stormtroopers.
The 30-second clips opens with Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (John Boyega), Poe (Oscar Isaac) and Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo) – alongside droid buddies C-3PO and BB-8 – fleeing a pack of Stormtroopers on hoverbikes. So far, so Endor. Until the 'troopers riding shotgun launch into the air, powered by fire-streaming jetpacks. Which cues a understandable Q&A session. "The fly now?" asks Finn. "They fly now," Poe confirms.
This is the first clip from the new film, which is helmed by JJ Abrams. It marks the director's first return to the series – in an official directing role, at least – since the first instalment in this final trilogy, The Force Awakens, in 2015.
.@starwars launched 42 years ago. And 24 days from now, the final chapter will be revealed in theaters! We are THRILLED to have director @jjabrams with us this morning — and he’s sharing an EXCLUSIVE clip from #TheRiseOfSkywalker! pic.twitter.com/gOfUTGWzpW
— Good Morning America (@GMA) November 25, 2019
Disney's hinted that The Rise Of Skywalker will be the last standalone Star Wars film for the foreseeable, and when it lands on 20 December it promises to wrap up most of the series' loose ends. Fans almost got the chance to find out exactly how a month early, however, when a script from the film ended up on eBay.
"One of our actors, I won’t say which one — I want to, but I won’t — left it under their bed and it was found by someone who was cleaning their place,” Abrams told Good Morning America. “It was then given to someone else who went to sell it on eBay.”
Somehow, an eagle-eyed employee noticed it before the fanboys and managed to get it back before anyone bought it. “With all the security, you have to be careful,” Abrams said.
In the same interview, he also revealed how – and why – the team brought back brought back Princess Leia, even though the actor who played her, Carrie Fisher, died before shooting started.
“We needed to have her in the movie somehow,” he said. “We went back and looked at the footage and realised we could tell the story, we could create scenes with her. It’s impossible for me to believe she’s not here. We’ve been working with her in the editing room now for almost a year and she’s vital, and she’s there, she’s funny, she’s Leia in this movie. It’s sort of surreal.”
The Rise of Skywalker has a release date of 20 December in the UK, and 21 December in the US
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