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First look: The teaser trailer for ‘Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker’

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Left to right; Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo), BB-8, D-O, Rey (Daisy Ridley), Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) and Finn (John Boyega) in STAR WARS: EPISODE IX (Courtesy of Lucasfilm Ltd.)

Today, Director/Writer J.J. Abrams and Producer Kathleen Kennedy were joined by stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, Oscar Isaac, Billy Dee Williams, Naomi Ackie, Joonas Suotamo and Anthony Daniels, and droids BB-8 and D-0, for a panel discussion at Star Wars Celebration in Chicago, moderated by Stephen Colbert.

The biggest news was the title of the final installment of the Skywalker saga was finally revealed, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, along with the first trailer for the film a brand-new teaser poster.

This first teaser gives us a kick ass leap from Daisy Ridley’s Rey, our final look at Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia as well as glimpses of the return of Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian, and the evil and sinister laugh of none other than Ian McDiarmid’s General Palpatine.

Disney will open Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in U.S. theaters on December 20th.

Check out the teaser and poster below.

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.