#STAR WARS INTRO TEXT SCRIPT MOVIE#
#STAR WARS INTRO TEXT SCRIPT TV#

вЂњLoving them that much when they were so awful, I began to wonder what would happen if they were done really well. вЂњOf course I realise how crude and badly done they were,вЂќ Lucas told interviewer Alan Arnold for his book, Once Upon a Galaxy: A Journal of the Making of The Empire Strikes Back. He could see the flaws in them -В but he could also see the potential.

Lucas didnвЂ™t necessarily look at these old serials with rose-coloured glasses.

#STAR WARS INTRO TEXT SCRIPT TV#

We didnвЂ™t have a TV set, so I used to go over to a friendвЂ™s house, and we watched it religiously every night.вЂќ вЂњIвЂ™d watch them and say, вЂThis is fantastic!вЂ™ There was a television program called Adventure Theatre at 6 oвЂ™clock every night. вЂњOne of my favourite things were Republic serials and things like Flash Gordon,вЂќ Lucas told Starlog in 1981.

#STAR WARS INTRO TEXT SCRIPT MOVIE#

Adventure Theatre, which debuted in 1956 (when Lucas was 12 years old), re-broadcast vintage movie serials on TV. Lucas didnвЂ™t see these serials at the movies, but on television. ItвЂ™s as good a time as any, then, to take a look back at where the opening crawl actually comes from, and how essential it really is for telling a Star Wars story.ДЇirst, letвЂ™s get the part that everyone already knows out of the way -В the crawl is, of course, a nod to the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials of the 1930s that George Lucas grew up with. For Lucasfilm, itвЂ™s simply a way to distinguish this first spin-off movie from the вЂњsaga filmsвЂќ, but for some fans, itвЂ™s tantamount to a betrayal -В a break from tradition for which there can be no justification. The absence of a crawl in Rogue One has been a controversial topic, to say the least. Of course, the idea for the film originated with an opening crawl -В it's literally the story of the Rebel spies mentioned in the first paragraph of the first Star Wars filmвЂ™s opening crawl -В and Lucasfilm has confirmed that it will be the first live-action Star Wars feature film not to have a crawl of its own. The discussion about Rogue One always comes back to opening crawls. Star Wars fans, striking from social media accounts, are engaged in battle over the question that divides the galaxy -В can a Star Wars film work without an opening crawl? This is the true story of the most iconic text in film. There's more to the opening crawl of Star Wars than just Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers.

Star wars intro text script