Here is my pitch for an opening crawl:
The flame of hope burns! Following the heroic sacrifice of Luke Skywalker on Crait, the daring Resistance has been reborn. The diabolical First Order, facing insurrection on a thousand worlds, is teetering on the edge.
But the dead speak! The galaxy has received a mysterious broadcast, a threat of revenge in the voice of the late PALPATINE.
Determined to destroy this threat to his declining power, Supreme Leader Kylo Ren is chasing whispers of an ARTIFACT that could lead him to the demise of the phantom menace…
It starts off by reminding us that it’s a sequel to TLJ and setting up the idea the actual movie establishes that the First Order is not doing so well post-TLJ, but we’re suddenly halted when the crawl reveals Palps is alive and has been planning his return/revenge.
It merges the respective ending sentences from TRoS and Ascendant while referencing TPM as I think that reference makes more sense than the “phantom Emperor”…
Thoughts?