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25th Nov 2019

WATCH: Flying stormtroopers and Knights of Ren feature in new Star Wars footage

Rudi Kinsella

Rise of Skywalker

It already looks more exciting than The Last Jedi.

We are now less than a month away from the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and if you weren’t excited already, this new clip from the movie should do the trick.

We see our brave heroes getting involved in a chase/shootout with stormtroopers, who are attached to high speed jet packs, meaning they can fly now. Badass.

As you can imagine, it makes them look infinitely more cool.

Their aim is still fairly terrible though, thank God. It’s great to see Poe, Finn, Rey, C3PO and BB8 all together.

Take a look:

Clip via Star Wars

And if SOMEHOW, this still hasn’t done the trick for you, we’ve got even more new footage to unpack.

More promotional material was released over the weekend, which shows a lot of scenes we have seen before, but with a couple of really cool shots added.

You can even spot the Knights of Ren in there somewhere. You know, the really cool-sounding bad guys who were introduced in The Force Awakens and then completely forgotten about in The Last Jedi?

J.J. Abrams doesn’t forget.

Clip via Star Wars

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker comes to cinemas on 19 December.

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