New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Footage Released Online
Today, the official Star Wars Instagram account dropped a new Star Wars: The Force Awakens clip on the official Star Wars Instagram account. you can check out the new clip below, which features some snippets of new footage from the highly anticipated sequel.
Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Studios released the clip using Instagram’s new landscape orientation, and this is the first video to be showcased in the new format for Instagram. The footage features a new snippet showing John Boyega’s Finn wielding a lightsaber. In addition, there is a new shot of Daisy Ridley as Rey along with the new droid character BB-8. The shot of the First Order troops was previously released in the Korean teaser trailer. There is also that shot of Kylo Ren igniting his lightsaber that was first shown in the film’s initial teaser trailer.
It is not a robust amount of new footage, but Star Wars fanatics will likely take what they can get as they prepare to return to a galaxy far, far away later this holiday season. Still, one wonders why some of this footage was not shown less than two weeks earlier at the 2015 D23 Expo, where there was a Star Wars presentation for the Disney Studios Live-Action panel. Star Wars: The Force Awakens arrives on December 18.