STAR WARS TRAILERS PART 1: THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY
With two teasers, a behind-the-scenes reel at Comic Con and two seconds of unseen footage glimpsed in a Korean TV spot, the wait for the first full trailer for The Force Awakens was reaching a climax. Now that this wait is over, speculations are running even higher than before. What will this new movie bring us? What will happen to our heroes, both new and familiar? What has happened in that galaxy far, far away since Endor? Who is Kylo Ren? One may find it useful to look at the past and see how revealing Star Wars movie trailers were. In this first part we look at the teasers and trailers from the original trilogy! A New Hope Teaser With the production in a mad rush to finish the special effects, Charles Lippincott was busy promoting the movie at conventions and by other means like the novelization and the Marvel comic that was in development. One of the other tools in his shed was the first teaser trailer. Lippincott met with Lucas, Kurtz, assistant optical edito...