Source: Collider | Posted By: Dan Geer
Back in December, /Film reported that they had been informed that the next trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be attached to Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron when the highly-anticipated film from director Joss Whedon debuts May 1st. Disney owns both Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm, and The Avengers sequel is guaranteed to have a huge opening weekend and massive box office sales in general during its theatrical run, so it comes as no surprise that this turned out to be official as of yesterday. Read on for more!
As Collider points out, this trailer is actually making its first debut at the Star Wars Celebration Anaheim Convention April 16-19th. So the question now is whether or not Disney will decide to release it online before it hits theaters with Age of Ultron in May so as to avoid crappy fuzzy bootlegs from leaking online with fans yelling and screaming in the background.
Personally, I think as soon as it makes its debut at Star Wars Celebration, we’ll see it online very soon after that. After all, the teaser only debuted in 30 select theaters nationwide last November while simultaneously debuting online, so it is completely within the realm of probability that we’ll see the second trailer online before it debuts nationwide.
It has obviously been predicted that we will actually get a glimpse of characters from the original trilogy, like an older Luke, Han and Leia, or even Chewy, C-3P0 or R2-D2 – but no one knows for sure (except those on the inside, of course). It is likely that the new trailer will still focus on the main characters (the next generation of heroes we saw in the teaser) but that we will get teases of our beloved original trilogy heroes as well. Whatever the case, we can be sure it’ll be awesome.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, directed by J.J. Abrams, stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Lupita Nyong’o, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, Gwendoline Christie, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Christina Chong, Pip Andersen, Crystal Clarke, Dixie Arnold, Andy Serkis, John Boyega, Max von Sydow, Peter Mayhew, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker and Warwick Davis. The film hits theaters nationwide December 18, 2015.
