The first official, full-length trailer for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” is on the way, and it’ll probably drop sometime this month, if history is to be believed.
Disney released a teaser video at the Star Wars Celebration event in April and a special look preview at the D23 Expo in August. Now, fans are waiting for the epic official trailer, which often reveals plot details previously unseen in the other trailers.
Normally, Disney releases trailers for its biggest films about five or six months before the film’s launch, according to CNBC. But with “Star Wars,” Disney releases the full trailer two months ahead of time.
For example, trailers for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” dropped during a Monday Night Football game in October, which was roughly two months ahead of the film’s release date.
“Trailers are there to bring visibility and generate excitement to bring us to the movies,” Peter Csathy, founder and chairman of Creatv Media, said. “Star Wars doesn’t need that. All you need to know is that there is a new Star Wars (film) coming out.”
Rumors have already been circulating about a potential trailer, according to CNET. In fact Femi Oguns, who represents “Star Wars” actor John Boyega, tweeted a photo last week about a trailer dropping last Monday.
“The next (Star Wars movie) trailer out Monday. It’s official,” he tweeted.
The trailer didn’t drop.
Boyega, though, walked back the statement, saying he wasn’t sure that a trailer would drop anytime soon.
“Sw fans. I don’t know when the trailer is coming out and i haven’t made any announcements about it so let’s just wait for the studio to release it,” he tweeted.
But Collider’s Adam Chitwood opined that fans might not need a new “Star Wars” trailer as much as they think they do. He points out that the film sells itself.
And “Rise of Skywalker” will be a unique experience that trailers could ruin.
“The truth is, once ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ hits theaters, we can never go back. You can only ever see this movie for the first time once,” he wrote. “After that, every viewing experience will be colored by knowing what happens next. That doesn’t mean the subsequent viewing experiences will be worse, necessarily, but your first viewing of ‘Rise of Skywalker’ is a singular, unique experience. Why would you want to further affect that experience by seeing even more footage, adding even more moments for you to mentally anticipate as the story unfolds?”