THE new trailer for Star Wars: Rogue One has been aired - and it's promising to be a nail biter as an iconic villain makes an exultant return.

Darth Vader, who last materialized on screens in 1983 during Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, is landing to the Star Wars universe in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Rogue One is a by-product of the beloved sci-fi franchise, and is set within end of Episode III and the start of Episode IV - linking the gap between them from the view of the rebels, The Sun reports.

UK actress Felicity Jones will be fetching on the leading role of Jyn Erso - a part of the Rebel Alliance who is given the sinister mission to take the plans for the Death Star.

Speaking of Walkers, it looks like Baze Malbus and Chirrut Îmwe are about to be flattened by one on Scarif.

Spick-and-span! This is being accounted as the final trailer, but there'll be a ton of TV ads and clips coming out in the months in advance that will undoubtedly reveal even more of the movie.

This preview certainly gives us a better view of how the film is formed, and how crucial Jyn Erso is to the whole story, but it also inserted a bit of a "war film" factor that hasn't really come over in prior trailers.

These contain the story of the life of Han Solo before he connects with Princess Leia and the gang during the first Star Wars films. Alden Ehrenreich will take on the famous role and will act as young Harrison Ford in the stories, presently billed as a unique movie.

The New York Post reported in June the Rogue One spin-off was in trouble, with Disney bosses exacting expensive reshoots after director Gareth Edwards tendered them with the first cut.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will arrive in cinemas on December 16, 2016.