UPDATE 5! New Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer and Advance Ticket Sales on October 9!
Breathe. Just… Breathe, Star Wars fans. Your patience is about to be rewarded, as a pair of new tweets hint that something major related to The Last Jedi is on the horizon, and we’ll be seeing it soon. Also we got a definite confirmation about the exact date of the trailer premiere…
September 18, 2017
The official Star Wars Twitter account has just shared a .GIF based on footage from The Last Jedi. On one hand, it’s based on a scene we’ve already watched in the first trailer. But on the other, it’s tagged with a phrase that’s teasing something so much bigger on the horizon:
Almost there. #TheLastJedi pic.twitter.com/ipwRp6Jduo
— Star Wars (@starwars) September 17, 2017
It’s almost time for something… To arrive. Exactly what, we can’t say for certain, but hopefully the people at Lucasfilm will clear things up in the near future. Some have speculated that the next trailer will hit with October 16 – the same day a major Monday Night Football game will be played in the United States – but it seems as though additional footage might be a little closer than initially believed.
I should also note that, for what it’s worth, we’re also about three months to the day that The Last Jedi is released in theaters. However, we were previously told to expect the next trailer either this month or in October, so that’s where my hunch that this is a sort of “trailer tease” kind of thing comes from. In any case – we’re almost there!
UPDATE!
September 19, 2017
Well as it turns out, the next trailer might hit a week earlier than what some fans were anticipating. Mark Hamill is now teasing an October 9 teaser on MNF:
Watch Monday Night Football on Monday October 9th- for no reason in particular.
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) September 19, 2017
This is a smart move to make on Disney’s part, as it allows them to get a boost to ESPN viewership, which has been struggling as of late. Hamill’s response here makes it abundantly clear that they’re moving closer to kicking the marketing campaign for The Last Jedi into high gear, which is great to hear. Less than a month to go before we have to wait for a little more than two months to see the movie!
UPDATE 2!
Aaand Mark deleted the tweet! He’s been trolling the fans on Twitter before but I don’t think this was the case this time. I guess he jumped the gun and he was politely asked to remove the tweet by LFL. Well, the damage is done, the news is out and my guess is that we will get an official confirmation on the trailer tomorrow on the Star Wars Show. But still, you never know with Mark…. Remember when he teased an Episode VIII trailer in the past and it turned out to be trailer for his show’s 8th episode? 🙂
Although you can still read the text from the deleted tweet above, here’s a screenshot of the tweet before it was removed.
UPDATE 3!
Many fans reached out to Hamill asking him for clarification on his now removed tweet. Here are some of the replies he gave:
I have no idea. Disney will announce when they are ready. #WaitForVIIITrailer
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) September 19, 2017
That was a misunderstood Vikings vs Bears joke. Nobody gets me. 😂
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) September 19, 2017
It was a simple Vikings vs Bears joke, but thanks for calling me “beloved”! (according to the translation) 😜
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) September 19, 2017
I will leave these with no comment for now because you obviously never know with Mark the Joker. 🙂
UPDATE 4!
September 19, 2017
After trying to confirm the October 9 release date of the trailer for a few days now, we finally received a solid confirmation that the trailer is indeed coming on that day during Monday Night Football.
We confirmed with a long time source that #TheLastJedi trailer is indeed coming on October 9. Mark your calendars. Only 2 weeks to go!!! 🙂 pic.twitter.com/9CeCpIlQFI
— SWNN (@StarWarsNewsNet) September 26, 2017
UPDATE 5!
October 5, 2017
As we said in the previous update in this article from 2 weeks ago, we got confirmation that The Last Jedi trailer will hit on October 9th, which is just in 4 days time. We can probably expect the official announcement and new poster to be revealed the day before on Sunday as they did with The Force Awakens.
They announced this the day before in 2015. Chill your asses. https://t.co/xfx5C6fN0n
— Anthony (@AtmaWeapon81) October 5, 2017
Also we know that it makes perfect sense to start selling tickets on the same day, but since we didn’t have a specific confirmation on this we decided not to speculate about it.
In the last days a few reports from fans who tried to contact different theater chains suggested that indeed tickets for The Last Jedi will go on sale on the same date the trailer will be released.
Now a new report has appeared on Reddit providing evidence that tickets will indeed go on sale on October 9th:
Are you ready? We’re almost there…
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I think they’re just hyping us up for the release. Not for a trailer. Sure hope I’m wrong on this, though! 🙂
If it were for a trailer, I think they would have specified it. I think it meant that we’re only 3 months away until the release of the film.
Here’s the thing… When they’ve promoted trailers in advance – and there are multiple cases when they didn’t, such as TFA’s Celebration teaser, RO’s last trailers, TLJ’s production announcement video, and TLJ’s Celebration teaser – they tell audiences ahead of time. In the cases that they do give fans a heads-up, it’s usually on very short notice – usually about a day or so.
If we start seeing more posts like this one, then we should start to see them as a kind of countdown.
– Pomojema
I hope you’re right. And now remembering that they did send out a tweet yesterday for the 90 days until TLJ, it very well could have been referring to the trailer. Fingers crossed.
It was actually 100 days, but yeah – point taken.
– Pomojema
No, it wasn’t 100 days, Pomojema. He’s referring to the 90 post. It’s 86 days as of today.
Monday Night Football started last week. I thought maybe they put it in front of The Kingsmen or another one in front of Thor
Fix applied. Thanks for the tip.
– Pomojema
this feels a tad premature. sometimes a tweet is just a tweet.
God I hope not
we are 3 months away….this is what the tweet is reminding us. This is what I thought when I saw it anyway. We will get a trailer in October and TV spots starting around Thanksgiving. The TV spots I will avoid though.
I wanted a trailer but now that I think about it, I could do 90 days without anything else
This is for the 3 month mark. I think the trailer will be October 16th
Too vague to get hopes up. It probably would’ve showed a new image from the new trailer rather than one from the teaser if that’s what it was referring to.
I think “almost there” is referring to December, which is only three months away.
Blade Runner, Thor, Justice League and whatever else will keep me from watching the full trailer.
I’m going in with as little knowledge in the film as possible.
Good luck! I’m going to try and do the same (so far they’ve made it easy!) but surely the trailer will show before Thor and Justice League. I might have to shut my eyes and put headphones on for 2 minutes if it does, because if I hear it, I’ll want to look!
That’s the catch. It’s almost a certainty that they’ll put VIII in front of the most anticipated movies of this year. TBH I wouldn’t mind seeing the trailer on the big screen but I won’t watch it again and again like I did with TFA trailers lol
You say that now…and maybe you mean it. But I’m betting a few cool shots of Luke in action in the trailer, and you’ll be straight home to watch it again! Best of luck!
Your confidence in me is truly touching. Thank you, good sir.
I will do my best
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“Alllmost therrre!”
worst case scenario we’ll get it at thanksgiving
Who knows what this means? At the moment every little thing is increasing my excitement!
OOOOOOOO BOY
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I bet’s it’s a preview of a trailer. *rolls eye*
Nah, when it comes to SW I don’t think they were showing previews of the trailer for TFA during the match. If they do, it’ll be clips from the last teaser. But they didn’t do that with TFA either. Granted we’ve only had 1 teaser for this film so far while TFA had 2 by this time in 2015. I wonder if they’ll announce ticket sales to occur immediately after like last time. Either way my brother and I will have fandango opened ready to buy just in case. Last time they said the sales were occuring the tickets were available way before the trailer dropped even though it was supposed to be afterward. So keep an eye open everyone!
EA also teased something on Instagram yesterday:
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It’s just the maps for BFII.
Naboo
Kamino
Kashyyyk
Endor
Death Star II
Hoth
Mos Eisley
Yavin IV
Jakku
Takodana
Starkiller Base
Cool. Did you decipher them yourself?
And you say just, but just looking at that number of locations – with more to come – it seems they’re really trying to blow the first one away on all (battle)fronts.
No, but I could have. All these planets have been known for a while now.
Here’s the thread I copypasted from. https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/70wrax/strange_tweet_from_ea_star_wars_what_could_this/
It’s a pretty good lineup. Wonder if we’ll get Utapau, since Grievous and Kenobi are coming later.
They needed to add “we’ve scrapped VR support”. Screw you PSVR owners….
So he said something then deleted it, and the man’s a known troll, so basically we’re right back where we started, At this point I’m not sure we’ll get a new trailer, this is a weird marketing campaign.
It’s September. The movie doesn’t come out until December. This same comment has been made 3 years in a row now. They ramp up the marketing as we get closer to the release of the movie. This is how it has worked the last 3 years.
Didn’t we have by this time of 2015 and 2016 more teaser and trailers? I can’t recall. It will be interesting to see when the Han Solo campaign starts, I’m guessing February?
We got the full trailer in early October for TFA and RO, I know for certain because I was on my Honeymoon when the full trailer for TFA came out and on a trip for my one year anniversary when RO came out.
Where are you going this year? 😉
Out to dinner unfortunately. We are in the process of purchasing a home so going away to Iceland (where she wanted to go) isn’t exactly practical right now.
Well, the important thing is to be together, congrats
Definitely! Thank you!
They treat you mean to keep you keen.
TFA trailer wasn’t until October either and that movie did fine. They know what they are doing. Relax.
You honestly think there won’t be a new trailer? Come on.
People do need a good reason to tune into Vikings vs. Bears.
Ahhaha yep! Dah Bears have been bad a while, I watch the Viks though to see how they might play against the ‘Hawks.
I was on my Honeymoon October 12-24 and I remember the trailer for TFA coming out on the 19th on Monday Night Football so this makes complete sense.
Congrats! I can only imagine how rad the leadup to TFA was for you.
Thanks! I told my wife that we had to put the honeymoon on pause for 5 minutes so that I could watch the trailer. She was okay with it.
Only 5 minutes!! Dude, where are your priorities.
As stated in update 2, I expected it to be a week later. Though Mark is a known troll, it could be true. He is pretty damn funny. You watch though, we’ll get a preview for that night, to check out the next week’s game. I hope that isn’t the case. I actually do not enjoy football in the least, but I’ll watch it in the background to get a trailer.
@Darth Necris
I think it could be true as well, meaning what he said about the trailer being released on October 9th.
He may have had the right intentions and actually telling us, but may simply been a week off. Everything has followed TFA so closely, Oct 16 makes so much more sense. Not to mention the whole 60 days prior to release as the earliest most theater ticket sales work. Which has been mentioned.
If mark was trolling I don’t think he would have deleted the tweet. Oct 9 or really any Monday in Oct makes sense. Begin the countdown!
I think he revealed when the trailer is being released and the he deleted that tweet to cover his tracks.
Can’t imagine why espn has been losing viewership. Now that is a “mystery”.
I think Curt Schilling knows.
Because people are cutting the cable cord.
That’s part of it. And the politically correct submission game is the other part.
If one comment from one commentator on one channel is enough to drive viewers from that channel, then no channel would have any viewers.
There is literally no evidence of that. Fake news.
ESPN public editor Jim Brady published the entire 402-word memo in a commentary.
Brady’s commentary, entitled, “ESPN awash in rising political tide,” admits that ESPN needs to encourage more political diversity.
“… it seems clear the company leans left. I don’t think anyone ever made an executive decision to go that route as much as the personalities the network has promoted into high-profile positions tend to be more liberal, and as their voices are amplified, the overall voice has shifted with it,” Brady wrote.
You were saying?
64% of viewers want players to stand? That’s a whole lot of people. Yes, Curt Shilling knows why.
Just because people who don’t understand the first amendment say they want players to stand doesn’t mean they are turning off the game. Does not follow.
And that’s a brand new issue, lol. ESPN has been losing viewers for years, mainly due to people getting rid of cable.
Schilling is moron.
I’ll wait till it’s on the web. Won’t even watch ESPN for Star Wars.
Trailer on ESPN : one and done
Trailer arrives 2 minutes later on YouTube : watch it again and again until my eyes bleed and wear out the PAUSE button.
Next topic to discuss…when will tix go on sale?
The only football game ever that I watched at all was when I was waiting for the TFA trailer. I think I’ll wait the extra couple minutes afterwards and watch it on YouTube.
Or the theater
Shit I can’t wait that long lol
Yeah you can
My take on this is that the cat is out of the bag if that’s when it gets released, because if not then Lucasfilm wouldn’t have had Mark Hamill delete that tweet.
Yeah true. I guess they wanted to officially announce it themselves because I don’t see any situation where they just want it to drop by surprise without making sure all of their prospective customers eyeballs are on it. I think they want to wait to announce that ticket sales will occur on the same day as the trailer drop as its the best incentive to get people buying up a storm and crashing sites like two years ago.
Who says they asked him to delete the tweet? He could have done it of his own accord, after he realized it was being misinterpreted. If course, I hope the TLJ trailer is really coming on the 9th…or sooner!
Or, maybe Lucasfilm had Hamill tweet the tease and then pull it after a certain amount of time, in order to build up hype.
Who said I was being patient?
How many trailer teases can a twitter feed tease since a twitter feed can tease trailers?
Typical Mark covering his tracks.
@Ian
You think that he was just covering his tracks after revealing when the trailer will be released?
Yes.
@Ian
So you think that he trailer will be released on October 9th ?
That’s my point, he probably announced it with his post, then backtracked.
@Ian
Oh, I see.
I don’t know why these days the release date for a trailer is a secret. Surely they would want that publicity?
Agreed. I understand there is marketing strategy, but if people know that’s the release date then its appointment viewing. Otherwise it just kinda blindsides us and I don’t see it until the next day unless I happen to be on social media at the time
They will announce it before the game.
Because they are gonna announce it their own way.
Bah, they have given away too much about the movie already. hate when that happens
I actually am pretty happy with how tight-lipped they’ve been. I know Rey is training with Luke and….there will be wars…in the stars?
Given away too much?? So you mean you can already tell us the plot details? Do tell!!
You’re being sarcastic of course.
People said the same thing about TFA and they were wrong.
Luke Skywalkers tweet has vanished!
It’s on an island, alone, but it left half a map to find it.
You win the comments.
“Leia has sent her most daring pilot on a secret mission to Jakku, where an old ally has discovered a clue to Luke’s tweet….”
I remember waiting for the force awakens trailer watching the game and when it came on everyone in the bar/restraunt went silent and cheered after. It’s fun to watch it in public to see people’s reactions then we all left and I watched it 10 more times
Meh, i honestly don’t mind not getting another trailer, i’m looking forward to the BF2 beta and rebels season 4 premiere, we’re kinda spoilt rotten in regards to Star Wars leading up to Christmas.
I am assuming that tickets will go on sale that day as well?
When has become now, director Johnson.
Less than two weeks to go!
finally
Any chance they drop the Solo teaser with the TLJ release in December ?
would be kind of cool as a surprise theater-only preview
I would say no, but with May, there is a chance?
What they should do is AFTER the movie, show a teaser for the Solo movie. That will keep people in there seats all the way through the credits.
that’s a good idea
That would be BRILLIANT
If Deadpool hadn’t already done it, I would absolutely love to have the credits end and see Han Solo do the Ferris Bueller “You’re still here?” thing. “Look, if I show you a teaser for my movie, will you go home?”
Spider-Man kind of did it too.
I bet there is a good chance this happens with Solo only 5 months away at that point. Following Rogue One I don’t think anyone will be confused by having another standalone on deck.
That would be freaking awesome lol
I really hope it’s online after, I don’t like the sportball.
They are almost always available online within minutes after premiere.
Yeah it will be online.
It always has been the last two years,
I don’t think they’re putting it online this year. You have to be at Soldier Field to watch it on the jumbotron.
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Any ideas on when we might get the official FINAL poster.
Usually around the time the trailer drops
Sunday
The good thing in the place where i live is that i can go to the cinema in the opening day without pre sales or endless lines to buy
Shoot I want to see the Trailer but don’t want to watch NFL LOL
Fairly sure it’ll be online shortly after. I’ll maybe tape the game and fast forward to it if I must. Or lurk around here for a more official time. Like half time. Then I’ll just turn in to check.
Yeah I was disappointed when I heard that it was on NFL. I wanted to watch it when it came out, but I’m sure it will be on YouTube right after.
I’m right there with you. With TFA, I was on my computer and watched the first football game I’ve ever watched on one monitor while I played games on my main monitor. Minutes later it was on YouTube. I may just wait until it is on YouTube.
Guys,
What time does Monday Night Football Start/Finish?
for me in Mountain time
6:30 P.M to 9:30 P.M
Pacific
5:30 P.M to 8:30 P.M
Eastern
8:30 P.M to 11:30 P.M
Thanks.
Thank you
I don’t want a lot of spoilers obviously… but I hope it hints at some things that give us all a bit more hope it’s note just ESB remade.
I want to be clear… I’m not one of those disappointed TFA was roughly a take on A New Hope. I’m fine with that and actually liked the movie. It changed enough and presented enough new things to keep me happy. This was all in the hopes the future movies would further deviate. That’s where I’ll be a bit disappointed if the next two are just rough copies of ESB and RotJ.
I agree. I hope they don’t play it safe and make an ESB clone. My fear is that the executives may be calling too many shots and they will force the hand of the director. But it does look like it is going that way. Hoth style battle, Luke acting as Yoda, friends walking into a trap, big revelation towards the end.
I reeeeeally hope you are wrong ! For the sake of the franchise.
I don’t think they could have picked a worse game to put this during. 😉
That’s why they’re doing it. To get people to tune in and inflate the viewership numbers for the game lol
Smart…
What’s funny is that it will hit YouTube at exactly the same time. No football for me.
This definitely happened for TFA. I remember hovering around the TV to catch it only for it to be up on youtube as soon as it aired.
Finally! I hope it’s at least 3 min long
YESSSSSS!!
YES!! Does anyone know roughly what time and when we would get the trailer in Australia EST then?
Cheers
Mid-late morning on Monday.
Wouldn’t it be mid-late morning on Tuesday, if it’s Monday night (9 October) in the US?
That tweet from that guy Anthony is spot on. What a smart, sexy person he is. A terrific follow on twitter. Even Pablo follows him!
(hint, hint)
And strangely this sexy Anthony guy is not following SWNN on Twitter although he is very active there. 😉
Oh he probably unfollowed after something he considered a spoiler was tweeted, I think.
But he loves the site anyway 😉
Ah, that makes sense. We usually are very careful not to post spoilers in the titles and the title images. But please don’t feel obligated to follow us now. That’s a good reason. 🙂
I already did. I am all about second chances 🙂
Yes, I agree, you usually are. I don’t even recall what it was that did it, but it was a while back so we can try again.
How do you get this stupid website to stop scrolling to a different article just by swiping down!!!! Fix your website!!!
100% with you
Alright, I’ll put myself in a self-induced coma now. See you on Monday! (actually Tuesday 4 AM where I live)
As an aside, kinda surprised people still clamor for advanced tickets anymore. With the number of screens devoted to any major release, I don’t think I’ve run into trouble getting into a first day showing in years. Rogue One, for example, in 3D, in the best theater I could find in Seattle, opening night, was a ‘wander up to the BO an hour or so before the show, and buy tickets’ affair.
I agree it’s totally useless in most cases. I guess it’s just very satisfying to know that you already have the tickets.
Its more about getting the ticket for the XD, IMAX or other large screen format for that first showing on Thursday before official friday release. Those sell out quick.
People want the best seat at their favorite movie theater. Can’t fault them for wanting to try and achieve that by clicking on the ol F5 button repeatedly…until you get access, it’s fun and frustrating at the same time. LOL.
It may have been easy because you were going to see 3D….. here in central CA, 3D is the least wanted lol
Normal, ATMOS, MPX (or RPX, or whatever you call the large format), are much more popular.
I will have to preorder. but i’m sad that i might not be able to go Thursday 🙁 I think i have a Final…..
At last I can get my hands on the final poster. I hope it’s good.
I can’t understand the anticipation. I have already seen the trailler of Star Trek new series many times.
Anyone know what time the tickets go on sale?
Someone at AMC gonna get fired.
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