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Access Hollywood had it first on Thursday... You can watch it at the theater today now that The Incredibles has been released.
The final Star Wars movie trailer is up and I bet most people who watch it will go see the film to see if it's half as good as the trailer makes it look!
Here's a link to a hi-quality version of the trailer that you can download. I recommend DSL/Cable if you don't want to wait forever. The file is 10.5 MB big!
http://www.digitalentropy.net/Internapse/Index.html
It's a medium-sized widescreen windowand should run decently on any computer with QuickTime 6 and a processor 500 MHz or faster.
SPOILERS BELOW!
The trailer starts with flashes of clips from the original Star Wars:
- Luke walks outside his Uncle's farm and gazes at the sky.
- Obi-Wan speaks to Luke in his hut and reveals how his former apprentice, Vader, betrayed and "murdered" Anakin as a montage of clips plays from Episodes 1-3 featuring Qui-Gon, Padawan Anakin, and other Jedi figures.
- Rows and rows of Clone Troopers from Episode 2 scroll on-screen as Obi-Wan narrates the "rise of the Empire" to Luke.
Mace, Yoda, and some Sith guy (Darth Sidious?) with a red lightsaber get some fighting in. Of course, we know which of these 3 guys survives to appear in the "next trilogy" (Episodes 4-6, aka the original Star Wars trilogy).
The Jedi Starfighter Anakin flies in this film looks suspiciously like Vader's customized Tie Advanced X 1 in "A New Hope." There appears to be at least one huge galactic dogfight sequence in this movie. Maybe we'll finally get a decent space battle at least half as good as Jedi's?
There also appears to be a fighter in one of the space battle scenes that looks suspiciously like the X-Wing in "A New Hope." I'm guessing we might finally be seeing the elusive and legendary Z-95 Headhunter onscreen for the first time.
Threepio finally appears with his traditional gold-plating.
Chewie and many other Wookies are in the film by the looks of the trailer.
Anakin and Obi-Wan have their final lightsaber designs. Part of their final duel -- which occurs after Obi-Wan realizes Anakin has turned to the Dark Side -- is shown and things don't look like they're going well for Obi-Wan. Anakin has Obi-Wan on his back fighting for his life and they are holding each other's hands trying to keep the other fighter from slashing with their lighsaber. It's a clash of blue against blue lightsaber. As stated in the Jedi novelization, the fight takes place on a raging volcanic field.
In an earlier teaser clip, Anakin is wearing his Jedi hood over his head and his eyes appear as an evil red.
Halfway through the trailer, Vader is revealed in his armor for the first time and answers in his mechanized voice to the Emperor (who's talking offscreen).
