Chinese Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer Reveals First Look At Canto Bight, Plus New Poster
China might have to wait a little while longer to get Star Wars: The Last Jedi than the rest of us, but they get a decent amount of new footage in their version of the trailer, complete with the first real footage we have of the Canto Bight setting. Also, there’s a new poster.
The trailer serves as a recap of The Force Awakens for the first 30 seconds. Bits of new footage start appearing starting at about 1:15 in, most of which shows up towards the end:
Beware, the trailer can be considered slightly spoilerific!
Let’s go over all of the new shots that were in this trailer:
- An establishing shot of Kylo Ren leading the way with his TIE silencer, which also explicitly confirms that this particular attack involves the Supremacy. I think there might also be a new shot of Kylo Ren looking around in the cockpit.
- The Falthiers running amok on Canto Bight. Look closely and you’ll see that Rose and Finn are riding one of them.
- A scene of the TIEs firing upon the perimeter on the Resistance’s base on Crait, complete with some Rogue One-esque shots of soldiers firing from the trenches.
In addition, there’s a new variant of the poster available. It’s pretty much identical to the Japanese one, but with a different shot of Rey and the Crait speeders present.
Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.
This looks amazing!
Cool! I’m glad we finally got to see a bit of Canto Bight in the trailers. Can. Not. Wait. Until. Opening. Night!
It’s my own fault for watching. however, Star Wars has done a pretty good job of not ruining anything, so i don’t think those extra scenes really spoiled anything. I DO wish the porg scene in the latest TV spots would have been kept under wraps though.
As with the force awakens: feels we have seen the whole movie, yet we know nothing about the story 🙂
I know there are scenes we haven’t even glimpsed, but we have essentially only seen like one tiny few frames of Canto Bight. Just like Han’s freighter, there is stuff i’m sure rian saved that will surprise us as far as locales.
Ohhh, the new scenes are so cool that I regret watching them.
I would prefer to watch them on the theatre for first time… now we can have an idea of what s going on on Canto Bight, and that was a mitstery until now.
ha ha – yeah me too. Although I’m certain that Force Awakens trailers and tv spots were more revealing.
Yes, but we had no idea about the any of the new characters… now we have much more background information.
That’s a great tracking shot of The First Order firing on The Resistance troops in the trenches. Those colours.
December the 14th you say.
Looks like we’re seeing some action in Canto Blight; wonder what’s happening there? We shall see when TLJ finally releases next week. ^_^
Feeling sad for them, getting TLJ only on 5th January. I would be so frustrated knowing most of the rest of the world gets it three weeks before me.
The reason they have to wait is because of a Government blackout on foreign films that happens a couple times a year. It’s meant to drive up box office sales for China’s own movies.
– Pomojema
Good to know. I had no idea they had something like that.
They are extremely restrictive in China. If your porduct doesn’t fit the the ideas of their single party political system your movie isn’t going to be shown in cinemas at all. This can include such minor things as destroying the great wall which is why Transformers 5 cut that scene. You are also not allowed to show any bones which is why I think we will never get to see a Warcraft movie 2, at leats not one that deals with undead like Arthas 🙁
This movies looks down right awesome! Just a couple weeks to go
Luke is holding the blue saber and no one says anything???
As I recall, I’ve seen that already before so it doesn’t really strike me as needing comments.
Where have you seen Luke holding the Anakin lightsaber before for TLJ promo?
Not before TLJ promo but I’ve seen it in previous posters…
it’s been in previous posters, follow sw news much?
Argh! I thought you meant in the trailer ! 🙁
Technically he could hold a blue lightsaber in the movie.
Looks great!
My only minor criticism is the Canto Bight scene uses too much CGI. Doesn’t look real. 🙁
I think it’s very well done evn though I am usually very critical of CGI. The runcycle of the fathiers is incredibly smooth and I prefer their fluid movements over the slow walking speed of let’s say the Luggabeast even though the Luggabeast looked more tangible. I think we have almost reached a stage wheere, thanks to photorealism, special effects will no longer look outdated even in a couple of decades time (speaking from a technical side that is not designlanguage and such)
I don’t agree, but that’s okay. I think CGI should be used minimally. The fathiers just look fake to me. I think filmmakers sometimes get too ambitious with it.
I agree, i think they look fantastic.
20 years from now, the movie will indeed look outdated, but whatever I guess
My hype level has now reached the Outer Rim, if it goes any further it’ll be in Uncharted space territory.
Too bad this won’t be enough to rake in as much cash from the Chinese market (unless they remade Star Wars to stay more closely to the Chinese bootleg comic from years ago).
It doesn’t have giant fake CGI robot people or orcs in it, or Vin Diesel racing in cars. The Chinese won’t be interested.
The Fathier stuff looks much better than I thought it would.
Cool. Luke’s holding the blue saber?! Also love the little porg on chewie