{"id":5558,"date":"2015-11-08T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/first-star-wars-the-force-awakens-tv-spot-puts-han-solo-back-in-the-freezer\/5558\/"},"modified":"2015-11-08T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T21:43:00","slug":"first-star-wars-the-force-awakens-tv-spot-puts-han-solo-back-in-the-freezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/first-star-wars-the-force-awakens-tv-spot-puts-han-solo-back-in-the-freezer\/","title":{"rendered":"First &#039;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&#039; TV Spot Puts Han Solo Back In The Freezer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/star-wars-force-awakens-tv-spot\/19506?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\">Peter Hall<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/star-wars-force-awakens-tv-spot\/19506?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/MDCsite\/images\/featured\/201511\/han-solo-cold.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s just a little over a month to go before <strong><em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em><\/strong> hits theaters, which means we are entering its most fertile marketing period. Just two days ago everyone was surprised by the sudden appearance of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/star-wars-the-force-awakens-asian-trailer\/19500\">a Japanese trailer for the movie<\/a> containing a bevy of new footage. And now we&#8217;ve got another new video with yet even more new footage. <\/p>\n<p>This first TV spot (which actually premiered on Twitter) is only 30 seconds long, but it contains new shots of Han Solo and some battles, including Rey firing a blaster at Kylo Ren. Perhaps most importantly, though, it contains some new voice over from Lupita Nyong&#8217;o&#8217;s mysterious new character, Maz Kanata, alluding to the multi-generational nature of the story.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out.<\/p>\n<blockquote lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">The force is calling to you&#8230; Check out the first official TV spot for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StarWars?src=hash\">#StarWars<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheForceAwakens?src=hash\">#TheForceAwakens<\/a>. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tsKiEvZAK7\">https:\/\/t.co\/tsKiEvZAK7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Twitter (@twitter) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twitter\/status\/663370431877918720\">November 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterSHall\">Follow @PeterSHall <\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MoviesDotCom\">Follow @MoviesDotCom<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/star-wars-force-awakens-tv-spot\/19506?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"First &#039;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&#039; TV Spot Puts Han Solo Back In The Freezer\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/star-wars-force-awakens-tv-spot\/19506?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/star-wars-force-awakens-tv-spot\/19506?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/MDCsite\/images\/featured\/201511\/han-solo-cold.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s just a little over a month to go before <strong><em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em><\/strong> hits theaters, which means we are entering its most fertile marketing period. Just two days ago everyone was surprised by the sudden appearance of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/star-wars-the-force-awakens-asian-trailer\/19500\">a Japanese trailer for the movie<\/a> containing a bevy of new footage. And now we&#8217;ve got another new video with yet even more new footage. <\/p>\n<p>This first TV spot (which actually premiered on Twitter) is only 30 seconds long, but it contains new shots of Han Solo and some battles, including Rey firing a blaster at Kylo Ren. Perhaps most importantly, though, it contains some new voice over from Lupita Nyong&#8217;o&#8217;s mysterious new character, Maz Kanata, alluding to the multi-generational nature of the story.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out.<\/p>\n<blockquote lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">The force is calling to you&#8230; Check out the first official TV spot for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StarWars?src=hash\">#StarWars<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheForceAwakens?src=hash\">#TheForceAwakens<\/a>. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tsKiEvZAK7\">https:\/\/t.co\/tsKiEvZAK7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Twitter (@twitter) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twitter\/status\/663370431877918720\">November 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterSHall\">Follow @PeterSHall <\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MoviesDotCom\">Follow @MoviesDotCom<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}