--- title: 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Poster Unveiled description: With the release of just two months away, a new official poster for the film was unveiled on Twitter Sunday canonical: https://time.com/4077562/star-wars-force-awakens-poster/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-18T16:20:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-14T00:19:13.000Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Epic New Poster for 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Unveiled og:description: A new trailer will air during Monday Night Football og:url: https://time.com/4077562/star-wars-force-awakens-poster/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Epic New Poster for 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Unveiled twitter:description: A new trailer will air during Monday Night Football twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Epic New Poster for _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_ Unveiled ## Video: Star Wars- The Force Awakens Official Teaser #2 [Watch (HLS stream): Star Wars- The Force Awakens Official Teaser #2](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/2eKGIE6L.m3u8) (1:59)  _Published 2015-04-16. Star Wars- The Force Awakens Official Teaser #2_  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Updated: Dec 14, 2023 12:19 AM UTCPublished: Oct 18, 2015 4:20 PM UTC  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Updated: Dec 14, 2023 12:19 AM UTCPublished: Oct 18, 2015 4:20 PM UTC A new official poster for the first new film in the _Star Wars_ franchise in a decade was unveiled on Twitter Sunday, just two months before the film’s release. Many of the featured characters on the _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_ poster will be familiar to longtime fans, including Han Solo, Chewbacca and Princess Leia. Harrison Ford, Peter Mayhew and Carrie Fisher will all reprise their roles as those characters. The poster also features a number of new characters, though Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker is noticeably absent. > [](https://twitter.com/starwars/status/655775390691033089) Alongside a photo of the poster, the official _Star Wars_ Twitter account shared that “a new look” at the movie will air this week during Monday Night Football on ESPN. A teaser for the video included in a tweet from Disney gave a glimpse of the faces of some of the new characters. > [](https://twitter.com/DisneyStudios/status/655828947163197440) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4077562/star-wars-force-awakens-poster/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4077562/star-wars-force-awakens-poster/"},"headline":"Epic New Poster for Star Wars: The Force Awakens Unveiled","datePublished":"2015-10-18T16:20:24.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-14T00:19:13.000Z","description":"A new trailer is coming Monday","url":"https://time.com/4077562/star-wars-force-awakens-poster/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"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/4077562/star-wars-force-awakens-poster/","name":"Epic New Poster for Star Wars: The Force Awakens Unveiled"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Star Wars- The Force Awakens Official Teaser #2","description":"Star Wars- The Force Awakens Official Teaser #2","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/2eKGIE6L/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-04-16T18:16:42.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/2eKGIE6L.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4077562/star-wars-force-awakens-poster/","duration":"PT1M59S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4077562/star-wars-force-awakens-poster/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```