New trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens features John Boyega and Daisy Ridley

FOR Star Wars fanatics, a new online trailer for The Force Awakens is fifteen seconds of concentrated awesomeness.

WITH 112 more sleeps until the release of the latest instalment of the Star Wars franchise, The Force Awakens, Disney has released a new trailer for the film online.

The 15-second clip was posted to Instagram in the early hours of Friday morning, Australian time, and had amassed almost 100,000 likes within three hours.

Comprising just four quick shots, the clip opens with a shot of a Nazi-style rally, before cutting to a shot of Daisy Ridley’s character Rey (with the new robotic character BB8) looking up into the sky and a previously seen image of the new baddie Kylo Ren carrying a lightsabre.

Something in the sky? BB8 and Daisy Ridley in the new clip.

“There’s been an awakening, have you felt it?” the narrator asks.

The clip ends on John Boyega’s character Finn drawing a blue lightsabre, presumably in response to Kylo Ren.

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens opens on December 18.

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