If anything about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story stirred up more controversy than ILM’s use of digital effects trickery, it was Lucasfilm’s decision to bypass the traditional opening text crawl in the first spinoff. The first seven live-action films in the franchise all included this series staple, which essentially acted as a creative way to handle the necessary exposition and set up the main narrative that follows. Though the crawl has been an integral and recognizable aspect of the property for 40 years, the studio felt they had to do something to differentiate the anthology movies from the numbered episodes of the Skywalker family saga. Cutting the opening text was seen as the easiest ...
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