Spin-Off Star Wars: Should the Opening Crawl Be Reserved for Main Series?

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With the spin-off Star Wars coming next year, I was wondering should the opening crawl be reserved for the main series, allowing the spin-offs to form their own identities?

Edit (4/21/15)- With the news that the spinoffs will be called Star Wars Anthology: (Title Here), I'll ask the question again, should the opening crawl used only in the main series? If it is used, how do you think they will present it? Will the Star Wars logo still fly away from the viewer, or will it say Star Wars Anthology? I actually think it's possible the Star Wars logo will still fly out the same as usual and the placing of "Anthology" could go where it typically says the episode number in the main series.
 
Nah. Anything Star Wars related should have the crawl. Doesn't mean they can't have their own identity as well. Think of it as a bookend.
 
No, I want to see it. I don't think it's some kind of legendary thing that needs to not be touched. Besides, video games and other star wars materials have used it.

That said, I wouldn't be mad if they didn't use it.
 
The Clone Wars show uses a newsreel-style announcer with a mix of old and new footage to set up each episode, rather than use the crawl. I think there's room for a mix of things. Numbered Star Wars entries should stick with the Crawl though.
 
Should it? Totally.

Will it be in there? You bet. It's in the comics, games, and cartoons. Can't imagine the crawl not being in the spinoff movies.
 
They use the crawl in everything. It's as synonymous with Star Wars as lightsabers and the force. Of course there gonna use it in the soon offs.
 
TangoAlphaLima said:
Disney paid $4 billion for that opening crawl, they're gonna milk the hell out of it.
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Exacta-mundo. It's iconic, and if anybody else tries to do it, they'll be immediately be booed for copying Star Wars.

number47 said:
The crawl summarizes what major events happened. It shouldnt be for minor events.
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Totally agree, which is then up to the writers to set up their stories (including the spin offs) with some detailed exposition. For me, Star Wars is such a giant universe, that even the small-time stories need some building up for the context.
 
Can't be any worse than this shit:
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The big fat "STAR WARS" receding into the distance and a crawl coming up from the bottom of the frame and chasing it off screen is basically a given. I wouldn't MIND losing it for the spinoffs at all (if you can fuck with expectations in these movies, do it) But it's 99.95 percent likely it'll be there - just without any episode number, and maybe only just the title "ROGUE ONE" at the top of it.

Although it's still up in the air (so far as we know) as to whether Rogue One is actually going to have the words "Star Wars" as part of its title, or even the marketing. So there's that. (Lucasfilm apparently hadn't decided on the branding for that movie when the announcement was made, so it could wind up being something like Star Wars Origins or Star Wars Chronicles or some shit like that, or just no Star Wars at all)
 
I feel like the crawl introduces a chapter of an epic multi-part story and that fits the main series so well... and honestly I'd like it if the spin-offs were more subtle.
 
ReiGun said:
They use the crawl in everything. It's as synonymous with Star Wars as lightsabers and the force. Of course there gonna use it in the soon offs.
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As someone pointed out, The Clone Wars TV show used a newsreel style recap. Though, I don't personally think it worked well as a Star Wars thing. It felt out of place.
 
Sanjuro said:
Is there a Crawl action figure?
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It should be a playset, with "Crawl Sheets" that your kids can write out a crawl on, and place in the playset, and then crank it through.

The Clone Wars movie replaced the crawl with a newsreel recap, yeah. It worked... okayish? But basically EVERYTHING else (comics, video games, even some of the books) has a scroll in front of it.

I wouldn't be against the movie starting cold from black, and saving the credits until the end - imagine the smash cut to the logo flying at you.
 
I'd be fine with ditching it altogether to be honest. It's been used so often in so many different games/movies that it lost its nostalgic charm on me.
 
butalala said:
The Clone Wars show uses a newsreel-style announcer with a mix of old and new footage to set up each episode, rather than use the crawl. I think there's room for a mix of things. Numbered Star Wars entries should stick with the Crawl though.
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I'd actually be really cool with this. It'd be a nice change of pace for theatrical films (not that the Crawl isn't unusual).

Probably will just be the Crawl or nothing though.
 
Yes, but it won't be. The first five years or so of new Star Wars movies are going to be obnoxiously overeager to ape the OT. We're going to be drowning in irritating callbacks and inane winky references.
 
Tertullian said:
Yes, but it won't be. The first five years or so of new Star Wars movies are going to be obnoxiously overeager to ape the OT. We're going to be drowning in irritating callbacks and inane winky references.
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Yeah, I think they don't want to change too much. One major change that is happening though, is that the spin-off movie will not have music from John Williams, but instead Alexandre Desplat. It makes sense that he is the composer for the movie, as he worked with Rogue One director Gareth Edwards on last year's Godzilla.
 
McNum said:
While this is fan-made, it's just not the same...

The Fox fanfare really does feel like it's part of the soundtrack.
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The problem with that is I don't even see the Disney logo going in front. People keep putting a huge focus on the fact Disney bought the company, but almost nothing that's come out of Lucasfilm since has had anything but a Lucasfilm copyright notice on it.

I mean - if they want to be really old school about it, they should just fade in from black onto plain green text "A Lucasfilm/Bad Robot production" and then light blue "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away..."
 
They should. The crawl is there to set the stage and give some brief context to what's about to be portrayed. It's there as a replacement for exposition dumps from characters. The spin-offs more than most will benefit from that set up since they will likely be taking place in more off beat parts of the universe that haven't been explored in the movies that much.
 
How the hell would we even know what's happening during the side movies? We'd need context. The SW universe is huge and instead of investing time and money in setting up the whole plot, we'd be better served knowing the who, what, when, where, and why in the opening and picking up from there. Could you imagine the SW movies if they actually showed the stuff in the scrawl instead of just spelling it out? Chaotic would be the word.
 
The opening crawl is a crowd pleaser so I don't see it going anywhere anytime soon. Even the cartoon film had it although that was with George running the show.
 
BobbyRoberts said:
The problem with that is I don't even see the Disney logo going in front. People keep putting a huge focus on the fact Disney bought the company, but almost nothing that's come out of Lucasfilm since has had anything but a Lucasfilm copyright notice on it.

I mean - if they want to be really old school about it, they should just fade in from black onto plain green text "A Lucasfilm/Bad Robot production" and then light blue "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away..."
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Agreed. The Marvel movies don't have the Disney logo in front; I think this will just have LucasFilm.

And will Bad Robot even be on there? Abrams isn't producing; he's just a director-for-hire, right?
 
BobbyRoberts said:
The problem with that is I don't even see the Disney logo going in front. People keep putting a huge focus on the fact Disney bought the company, but almost nothing that's come out of Lucasfilm since has had anything but a Lucasfilm copyright notice on it.

I mean - if they want to be really old school about it, they should just fade in from black onto plain green text "A Lucasfilm/Bad Robot production" and then light blue "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away..."
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I've been saying that exact thing for quite some time. LucasArts is a production subsidiary of Disney. It's the same reason why the Marvel movies don't get Disney logos and why movies from Touchstone don't get Disney logos either. They are their own entities within Disney.
 
spookyfish said:
And will Bad Robot even be on there? Abrams isn't producing; he's just a director-for-hire, right?
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It's a Bad Robot co-production. I'd prefer to see my suggestion, but we're likely going to get a version of the Bad Robot logo, the Lucasfilm light-up belt-buckle logo, and then "A long time ago..."
 
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