TRAILER WATCH - STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

Not much has been seen of the upcoming instalment of STAR WARS, but the latest trailer proves not only that all is great, but that things are about to get dark, emotional and intense. 

The trailer gives us glimpses of Rey’s (Daisy Ridley) intense Jedi training with Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) that somehow scares him. We see Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) throw his tantrums and General Leia (the late Carrie Fisher) show growing concern over the galaxy. It also seems that Finn (John Boyega) is back to good health as he goes toe-to-toe with Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie). Poe (Oscar Isaac) is also back in action as is Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) with a Porg — a new cute creature for the Star Wars universe — by his side. We also see a very wrinkly look at the evil Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis). Ew. Nonetheless, it all ends with a clutch-your-pearls moment where it looks as if Rey is joining the Dark Side.

As a sign of just how much pent-up anticipation there is for the movie, it has within three days earned 120.1M views worldwide. Per the studio, that’s 29.1 million more views than for the film’s first teaser released at Star Wars Celebration in April, and there are 242,000 (and counting) Twitter posts surrounding Star Wars: The Last Jedi this week. RelishMix reports that YouTube views for The Last Jedi are at 24M-plus over past two days and that they’re outpacing 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens over same period with 21.8M, Spider-Man Homecoming at 17.5M, and Jurassic World‘s 13.1M.