The ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Poster Is Here!
Before the new trailer forStar Wars: The Force Awakensarrives tomorrow, a new official poster for the sci-fi saga sequel has arrived, finally putting some of the characters we’ve seen in the previous teaser trailers into the frame.
The artwork is mostly what we’ve come to expect from theStar Warsmarketing campaign after six movies preceding it, though it does seem to be missing that Drew Struzan touch. There’s no new logo despite previous rumors, but Michael Arndt gets a writing credit. It’s a solid but not amazing theatrical poster. Check it out!
Here’s the officialStar Wars: The Force Awakensposter:
Here’s a more high-resolution banner version of the art as well:
Sadly, the poster doesn’t give much more away. In fact, it actually raises many more questions than answers, not unlike the brief footage from the Instagram teaser as well as the illustration of Finn (John Boyega) with a lightsaber from theexclusive D23 poster created byDrew Struzan, which had someinteresting details to notice and speculate about.
For example, what is that thing in the upper right hand corner? Is that the new super weapon that Starkiller Base is concealing? It would seem so. Also, it’s very interesting how Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) are juxtaposed perfectly so that it almost looks like she’s holding a double-bladed lightsaber at first.
As for the old heroes, we finally get another look atCarrie Fisheras Princess Leia, with a new hairdo, and she’s right next to her old fling Han Solo (Harrison Ford). However, next to the duo of C-3PO and R2-D2, there’s some kind of new alien creature. We have it on good authority that it’s Maz Kanata, the character played byLupita Nyong’o. Finally, there’s still no sign ofMark Hamillas Luke Skywalker, so don’t count on seeing him in the trailer tomorrow.
Will we get to see any of this stuff in tomorrow’s new trailer? We’ll just have to wait patiently to see what directorJ.J. Abramssees fit to show us.
One artist decided to add an “improvement” to the poster for you you prequel fans:
I just improved#StarWars#TheForceAwakensby 10000%#JarJarBinkspic.twitter.com/tQJSJfUsYs
— Olly Gibbs (@OllyGibbs)August 16, 2025
As a point of comparison, check out all the previous final theatrical one sheets for theStar Warsmovies:
Obviously the prequel poster set has a more unified style featuring the art of Drew Struzan, but since the original trilogy wasn’t planned to be a film series from the beginning, each of them have their own style, which I actually prefer. I’m bettingEpisode VIIIandEpisode IXwon’t be as similar in their poster design toThe Force Awakensas each of the prequels are to each other, but we’ll have to wait and see.
Speaking of Drew Struzan, in case you couldn’t tell, he didn’t design this poster. I’m not sure why Disney opted to have him do a poster for D23 and not the final theatrical one sheet instead, but maybe they wanted to get another artist in place to be their own Drew Struzan of sorts.MakingStarWars.nethas learned that artist isBryan Morton, and he actually has a history withStar Wars:
That’s Morton playing Anakin Skywalker in the Rose Parade in 2007. It’s pretty cool to see aStar Warsfan got the job to design the poster. Maybe he’ll be the go-to artist for futureStar Warsposters.
EDIT: We’ve since learned that Morton is merely credited as the art director of the poster but the design of the poster itself is not being attributed to any single person.
At the very least, this is a much better poster for fans to display on their wall than theStar Wars: The Force Awakensposter featuringjust the teaser logo floating in space(or theolder Star Wars Celebration posterthat just has the same image tilted at an angle). Presumably, this will be the final theatrical poster we get forThe Force Awakens, unless we get a batch of character posters or something like that, but only time will tell.
What do you think of the newStar Wars: The Force Awakensposter?
