After supposedly getting “the last” trailer before the film debuts December 18, the fandom awakened Friday to a new Japanese trailer for The Force Awakens that is largely a simplified version of the American one, with a few new elements mixed in.
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Fleetwood’s wife, Ashley, took to Facebook Thursday to share that her husband’s wish had come true. “Today the wonderful Disney and Lucasfilms made his final dream come true, in the awesome typical Disney way, they really do make dreams come true”, Ashley wrote on Facebook. On September 1, after the cancer grew more aggressive, his doctor gave him one to two months to live. Episode 7 director JJ Abrams then called the family and said he and the Star Wars team were going to show Daniel the film.
“I just love Star Wars”, Daniel Fleetwood told KPRC-TV in Houston, Texas last week.
“Lastly I want to thank ALL the incredible people who helped make this happen, thank you beyond words!!!” she continued. Again, it’s not explicitly spoilery (Abrams knows how the internet works; I doubt he’d approve), but there’s more “plot” in this trailer than there was in any of the domestic trailers we got. Unlike previous Force Awakens trailers, though, the focus in this latest glimpse is on Rey’s companionship with the droid BB-8, who does lots of endearing R2D2-esque beeping and chirping. May the force be with you all smile emoticon #forcefordaniel!!!!
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Mark Hamill, reprising his role as Luke Skywalker, added a post of his own: “I am elated for Daniel and his family!” Here we see someone (pretty much certainly Rey) standing at the underneath an exhaust of the Star Destroyer she goes scavenging in.
