Many Star Wars fans will not be happy with this news because it's become a tradition in each of the last seven films, seen in video games, comic books and more.
There will not be a crawl at the start of ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY.
This was confirmed by director Gareth Edwards to the French website TF1 (h/t CBM). Here's the translation from Edwards' interview:
"There is no opening crawl. But there is a prologue at the beginning of the film that takes place 15 years before the action of the film and that is how the action is exposed. Our film comes from the text of Episode IV...if we give the text, it would be endless. We really had to differentiate Rogue One from the rest of the saga."
There will be many angry knee-jerk reactions about this but this is Disney's canon now and as Edwards says Disney (and Lucasfilm) want "to differentiate Rogue One from the rest of the saga."
So while you may be pissed off about this that anger and frustration will most likely go away very quickly once the movie gets going. And by the end of it you might not care that there wasn't a crawl at all.
ROGUE ONE releases in the states on December 16.
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