I’m curious how adding a crawl would work. You could eliminate the flashback by adding some exposition in the beginning of the crawl, and then you could use the rest of the crawl to help give some exposition on the actual plot of the movie. This idea would allow for first act restructuring to improve the film.

But that means losing the flashback and I do like that scene. It helps setup the emotional payoff of the hologram scene and Galen’s death scene. So if you wanted to keep the flashback, the crawl would really only be able to explain the Galen/Krennic stuff and not any of the actual plot of the movie that takes place after the flashback. And then with the title card gone, you’d have to either add a “blah blah years later”. Or you could make the flashback seem like a dream. But the big downside here is that you can’t give any exposition for the main plot of the movie. I’m asking because I was about to start creating a draft for a crawl but am curious what direction it should take.