In advance of today’s hotly-anticipated Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens panel at Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, set to begin at 10:00am PDT, some curious images have found their way onto the internet. It’s conceivable, though we have no way to corroborate this yet, officially, that these are poster images for the new journey into a galaxy far, far away, maybe even teaser posters.
What makes this curious is WHERE they’re showing up; Tim Veekhoven, a contributor to StarWars.com living in Belgium, tweeted three of the five new images this morning accompanied by the words “I wonder where these are coming from.” That could be a genuine curiosity, it could be a coy kind of “Oh, I WONDER where THESE are coming from,” or it could be like “I wonder who spilled the beans early,” not that every contributor to the website should have first-hand knowledge of official poster art, of course.
I wonder where these are coming from 1/3 pic.twitter.com/ZWKAwd0LsQ
— Tim Veekhoven (@Sompeetalay) April 16, 2015
I wonder where these are coming from 2/3 pic.twitter.com/vRKFqF3jvq
— Tim Veekhoven (@Sompeetalay) April 16, 2015
I wonder where these are coming from 3/3 pic.twitter.com/k7wFDSEcUf
— Tim Veekhoven (@Sompeetalay) April 16, 2015
He later tweeted two more images that showed up on 4Chan.
And there appears to be more. These have appeared on 4chan. http://t.co/7ZcNSvjvTT & http://t.co/7n9cF2mKgn
— Tim Veekhoven (@Sompeetalay) April 16, 2015
He first saw the images on THIS FACEBOOK GROUP PAGE which is not in the English language.
Again, we have no information as to whether the images are real or fake or fan art or what, but it’s convenient they just happen to show up right before the panel.
The images mainly show Kylo Ren, the baddie in the next movie and apparently some kind of Sith Lord. In the teaser, we only saw the back of him and, of course, his Tri-Saber, but these images have, like, a mixture of Darth Vader and General Grievous mask situation which may or may not be real. I sure love saying “may or may not” about these things; there was a time that ANY new Star Wars images would surely have been a “may not.”
We’ll keep you updated on if these turn out to be true or not, but in the meantime, check out the gallery below, and you can watch the panel streamed live on the Star Wars website.
