‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ New Trailer: “Tempt”

Disney and Lucasfilm just released a new short trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The 30 second trailer is titled ‘Tempt’ and teases Rey (Daisy Ridley) needs to choose her path.

In the trailer, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) instructs Rey to reach out with her mind and then asks what she sees in a vision. “Light. Darkness. And something else. It’s calling me,” says Rey. Luke urges her to resist as the trailer ends.


The cast of the 2017 Star Wars film includes Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher as Leia, Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn, Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron, Lupita Nyong’o as Maz Kanata, Andy Serkis as Supreme Leader Snoke, Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux, Anthony Daniels C-3PO, Gwendoline Christie as Captain Phasma, Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico, Laura Dern as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo, and Benicio Del Toro as DJ.

Lucasfilm is launching Star Wars: The Last Jedi is set to open in theaters on December 15, 2017.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi was written and directed by Rian Johnson (Looper, The Brothers Bloom, Brick). Kathleen Kennedy and Ram Bergman produced, and J.J. Abrams, Tom Karnowski, and Jason McGatlin served as executive producers.

Rian Johnson recently signed up to continue the Star Wars franchise with a new trilogy. Johnson is attached to write and direct the first of the three new films, with Ram Bergman producing. The deal was announced earlier this month and involves a trilogy of films that will be separate from the episodic Skywalker saga. The new trilogy will include brand new characters, with Lucasfilm hinting they’re from “a corner of the galaxy that Star Wars lore has never before explored.”

The Plot: In Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the Skywalker saga continues as the heroes of The Force Awakens join the galactic legends in an epic adventure that unlocks age-old mysteries of the Force and shocking revelations of the past.

Daisy Ridley as Rey in ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ (Photo © 2017 Lucasfilm Ltd)