Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker gets in on the act, joins Game of Thrones and Avengers: Endgame in making 2019 the year that it all ends

In a month when two of biggest film and television franchises - Game of Thrones and Marvel Cinematic Universe - begin ir conclusions, perhaps most storied saga of m all - Star Wars - has also debuted trailer of its final chapter. 

Two years on from events of Last Jedi, which left Resistance severely depleted, comes trailer for 9th film in series.

trailer begins with Rey on a desert planet - of which we've seen before on multiple occasions in saga. While it's hard to say wher it's Jakku or Tattooine, one thing's clear. ghost of Skywalker is making its presence felt, even as Rey steels herself for an versary TIE fighter that's bearing down on her. 

Luke Skywalker's voice, sounding very 'one with Force', says 'We've passed on all we kw. A thousand generations live in you w. But this is your fight.'

TIE fighter (First Order fighter) is revealed to be of a new make, indicating that re may be something beyond rmal about it. It also doesn't shoot, inste seeming intent on running her over. As it approaches, she leaps into air, does a clearly force-enhanced backflip in a hair-raising scene.

As tritional Star Wars music kicks in, viewers are shown quick flashes of battle that is to come, involving flights through clouds into dark worlds and jumps through hyper by Millennium Falcon with an original trilogy hero in pilot's seat. Of three or key stars - Kylo Ren, Finn and Poe Dameron - quick flashes are shown.  Kylo, for one, appears to be descending furr and furr into darkness.

most interesting pieces involve two scenes right at end. One involves Rey and company coming across an ocean world where a titanic structure appears to have crashed, a big fragment rising to cloud-tops with a familiar concave shape evident. And second, a high-pitched laugh that has evil writ all across it, clearly from an old dark foe (though it's t clear which.)

film, which has been referred to as end of saga in trailer, is called Star Wars Episode IX: Rise of Skywalker. It hits atres on December 20, 2019.