--- title: Star Wars Trailer: Watch 'The Force Awakens' New Teaser description: The new trailer premiered during Monday Night Football canonical: https://time.com/4078795/star-wars-7-trailer-watch-force-awakens/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-20T02:13:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:54:44.837Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch the New Trailer for 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' og:description: The new trailer premiered during Monday Night Football og:url: https://time.com/4078795/star-wars-7-trailer-watch-force-awakens/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a3d09a8837d3b0c/698868f2f887dcea6de92eb4/star-wars-force-awakes-dark-side.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Star Wars Force Awakens og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the New Trailer for 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' twitter:description: The new trailer premiered during Monday Night Football twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a3d09a8837d3b0c/698868f2f887dcea6de92eb4/star-wars-force-awakes-dark-side.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch the New Trailer for _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_ by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 20, 2015 2:13 AM UTC  Adam Driver as Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 2015 Adam Driver as Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 2015Disney/Lucasfilm by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 20, 2015 2:13 AM UTC Nearly a year after the first teaser came out, fans are finally getting an extended peek at the upcoming _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_. The new trailer, which debuted during _Monday Night Football_, came amid increased speculation about the old and new characters in the franchise. Fans noticed that Luke Skywalker was absent from the [poster released on Sunday](http://time.com/4077562/star-wars-force-awakens-poster/), and many have wondered exactly how new characters played by actors like Adam Driver and John Boyega will figure in the plot. Viewers still have plenty of time to debate the significance of hints from the new trailer; the film opens in theaters Dec. 18. **Read next:** * [Epic New Poster for Star Wars: The Force Awakens Unveiled](http://time.com/4077562/star-wars-force-awakens-poster/) * [Star Wars Producer: ‘There’s Nothing We’d Like More Than to Find a Female Director’](http://time.com/4072910/star-wars-kathleen-kennedy-women-directors/) * [Actor Playing Black Stormtrooper to Commenters: ‘What Are You Going to Do About It?’](http://time.com/4066718/john-boyega-star-wars-black-stormtrooper/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4078795/star-wars-7-trailer-watch-force-awakens/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4078795/star-wars-7-trailer-watch-force-awakens/"},"headline":"Watch the New Trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens","datePublished":"2015-10-20T02:13:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:54:44.837Z","description":"The new version premiered during Monday Night Football","url":"https://time.com/4078795/star-wars-7-trailer-watch-force-awakens/","keywords":["movies","Star Wars topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a3d09a8837d3b0c/698868f2f887dcea6de92eb4/star-wars-force-awakes-dark-side.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a3d09a8837d3b0c/698868f2f887dcea6de92eb4/star-wars-force-awakes-dark-side.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Star Wars Force Awakens","caption":"Star Wars: The Force AwakensKylo Ren (Adam Driver) with StormtroopersPh: David James©Lucasfilm 2015","creditText":"Disney/Lucasfilm","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4078795/star-wars-7-trailer-watch-force-awakens/","name":"Watch the New Trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens"}}]}] ```