The crawl’s a tricky thing to do. The film’s current crawl is pretty good in its simplicity and intrigue. The problem is, the political situation is not so simple.
I personally love the opening line. I think it is a bigger topic. Luke Skywalker has vanished, and the state of the galaxy has changed in his wake. One important thing to remember when writing a new crawl is that the First Order is looking for Luke too (the crawls I’ve seen here haven’t mentioned that, I wonder if we could just assume why it’s so important for them).
I guess I’ll have to take a stab at writing my own.