J.J. Abrams shows off Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker clip in Fortnite – The Verge

Star Wars: The Upward thrust of Skywalker is so inescapable that it’s even began invading video games. This afternoon, director J.J. Abrams stopped by a weird and wonderful build to blow their private horns a recent clip from the film: Unpleasant Reels, the drive-in theater on Fortnite’s digital island. It became a weird and wonderful promotional match for the film, which naturally ended with a lightsaber duel.

The match opened with Abrams arriving on the Millennium Falcon, amidst a fight with some TIE opponents and a few Star Destroyers. There became even an in-recreation avatar that seemed remarkably admire the director. After moderately of a preamble with host Geoff Keighley — finest identified because the host and creator of The Sport Awards — a huge floating mumble seemed. The short, weird and wonderful clip of Upward thrust of Skywalker featured heroes Rey, Finn, and Poe, and after it became over — and Abrams took off in his spaceship — things slowed down, while a Darth Sidious voiceover talked about the “day of the Sith.”

At the very stop, gamers were also in a position to vote on their favourite lightsaber coloration. It wasn’t correct for fun — lightsabers are now within the recreation. A contemporary space of Star Wars-themed challenges admire also been added, with unlockable gadgets in conjunction with a Jedi coaching emote.

Story has been teasing the match for round a week, starting by putting posters at assorted locations on the Fortnite island. As now not too lengthy within the past as Friday night, there were trucks at Unpleasant Reels, because the digital stage became mild below construction. Due to the the high stage of gamers looking out to bring collectively in, the match became pushed support by 10 minutes from its long-established 2PM ET runtime — though everybody who attended on Saturday afternoon bought a free TIE fighter to make spend of in-recreation as a glider.

Fortnite has slowly been ramping up its Star Wars promotions since November when stormtrooper personality skins were accessible in-recreation. This week, things went a step extra with skins in response to Rey, Finn, and a recent Sith trooper from The Upward thrust of Skywalker. It’s now not the first time developer Story has partnered with a blockbuster film franchise: Fortnite has featured skins and events in response to all the pieces from John Wick to The Avengers.

Abrams’ appearance also isn’t the first time a superstar has stopped by the recreation. Abet in February, Marshmello performed a live performance inner of Fortnite, which Story later said became the recreation’s biggest match ever, with more than 10 million other folks attending in-recreation and hundreds and hundreds more looking out at through providers and products admire Twitch and YouTube.

Star Wars: The Upward thrust of Skywalker will be out in proper theaters on December 20th.