DZ-330 said:
EPISODE VII
THE FORCE AWAKENS
It is a time of despair.
Luke Skywalker, sworn
to rebuild the legendary
Jedi Order, has vanished.
With the Jedi now facing
extinction, agents of the
evil FIRST ORDER have
risen from the shadows
of an Imperial fortress
to claim supremacy over
countless worlds beyond
the fragile New Republic.
Growing restless amid
endless debate, daring
Senators have secretly
commissioned the pilots
of a brave RESISTANCE
to find the last Jedi and
restore the light of hope
to the darkening stars….
That last paragraph is awfully close to The Phantom Menace’s crawl. I actually like the language in the original TFA crawl as imo that last paragraph should really hone in on specific context for the opening scene.
Not that anyone asked, but i find writing crawls endlessly fun so here’s my take:
EPISODE VII
THE FORCE AWAKENS
It is a time of despair. Luke
Skywalker, once sworn to
rebuild the legendary Jedi
Order, has vanished.
In his absence, remnants
of the fallen Empire known
as the FIRST ORDER have
risen from the stronghold
Starkiller Base to claim
their supremacy over
regions beyond the fragile
New Republic. Funded in
secret by daring senators,
General Leia Organa leads
a RESISTANCE against the
growing power.
Desperate to find her brother
and restore a spark of hope
to the galaxy, she sends pilot
Poe Dameron to the planet
Jakku, where an old ally has
discovered a clue to the last
Jedi’s whereabouts…