Apple's iTunes to air Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer on Friday

Following rumors that an anticipated trailer for Disney's upcoming Star Wars movie would be available for viewing online, the official Star Wars Twitter account confirmed availability through Apple's iTunes for Black Friday.

As announced in a tweet on Wednesday, the first "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" teaser trailer will be published to Apple's iTunes on Black Friday for public viewing. Apple corroborated in a tweet of its own shorty after Star Wars' announcement.

Previously, Lucasfilm said only 30 theaters nationwide would carry the 88-second tease this Friday. It is unclear if the move was spurred by fans disappointed by the limited release, or was part of Disney's plan to drum up interest.

The Force is with you on #BlackFriday when #TheForceAwakens teaser hits @iTunesTrailers.
— Star Wars (@starwars) November 26, 2014

Come Friday, the "Episode VII" trailer will assumedly be ready to watch on the iTunes Movie Trailers app as well as the iTunes desktop app and Apple's iTunes trailers website.

Disney's upcoming installment to the Star Wars franchise, directed by J.J. Abrams, has completed filming and is slated for release over a year from now on Dec. 18, 2015.

109 Comments

tallest skil 43086 comments · 14 Years

About 9 years ago

What a stupid title. Oh, well. The universe makes for endless stories. It just depends on the author thereof.

Lucas sucks at it, is what I’m saying.

emig647 2446 comments · 20 Years

Can NOT wait! I was wondering when this was coming out.

thewhitefalcon 4444 comments · 10 Years

[quote name="Tallest Skil" url="/t/183610/apples-itunes-to-air-star-wars-the-force-awakens-trailer-on-friday#post_2645337"]What a stupid title. Oh, well. The universe makes for endless stories. It just depends on the author thereof. Lucas sucks at it, is what I’m saying. [/quote] The problem is that Abrams has a talent for killing franchises to fit his own artistic vision. I know it's easy to say "couldn't be worse than Christiansen/Portman dialogue", but... I was pleasantly surprised by the Jurassic World trailer this week, so I think I'm going to be disappointed/horrified by this trailer.

eriamjh 1752 comments · 17 Years

Please don't screw it up so we have to reboot it in another 20 or 30 years...

Looks like I have to free up 88 seconds on Friday.

Originally Posted by TheWhiteFalcon

The problem is that Abrams has a talent for killing franchises to fit his own artistic vision.

Huh, I hadn’t considered. I just figured the Star Treks were following a larger overall “DARKER; GRITTIER” campaign of reboots.

I know it's easy to say "couldn't be worse than Christiansen/Portman dialogue", but...

Ahmed Best stars as a human Jedi.

I was pleasantly surprised by the Jurassic World trailer...

Were you? I was disappointed. The CGI looks a decade old. They could have at least built a MINIATURE of the iconic doors and shot it. And they’re still doing that stupid hybrid storyline, but at least it’s not human/dinosaur hybrids like they wanted...

The only thing I enjoyed was the trained raptors. I geeked out over Arthur C. Clarke’s use of them in 3001 (which was a depressing sequel in many ways in its own right), so seeing them here in a justified sense (...dum da doo, hybrid DNA to make them docile, derpa derp...) was great.

Still, I like this one: