--- title: Star Wars Rogue One Might Not Have Crawl description: The next movie in the Star Wars canon, directed by Gareth Edwards, will break from series tradition. This is one of the biggest changes. canonical: https://time.com/4381997/star-wars-rogue-one-crawl/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-24T18:45:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:33:45.392Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: One Way Rogue One Will Differ From Classic Star Wars Movies og:description: This major shift marks the next era of storytelling in the Star Wars universe. og:url: https://time.com/4381997/star-wars-rogue-one-crawl/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta49bc9d240812529/69888e265f570fbc54b205ff/star-wars-rogue-one-5.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: star-wars-rogue-one-5 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: One Way Rogue One Will Differ From Classic Star Wars Movies twitter:description: This major shift marks the next era of storytelling in the Star Wars universe. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta49bc9d240812529/69888e265f570fbc54b205ff/star-wars-rogue-one-5.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here’s One Major Way _Rogue One_ Will Differ From Classic _Star Wars_ Movies  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 24, 2016 6:45 PM UTC  Felicity Jones in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Felicity Jones in Rogue One: A Star Wars StoryLucasfilm Ltd.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 24, 2016 6:45 PM UTC The [next movie](http://time.com/4379840/star-wars-rogue-one-darth-vader/?iid=sr-link2) in the Star Wars canon is going rogue from the classic series in a lot of ways — and not just because it’s called, well, [_Rogue One_](http://time.com/4284984/star-wars-rogue-one-trailer-questions-rumors/?iid=sr-link3). The Disney-backed spinoff is leaving the story of the Skywalker family behind, for starters, instead focusing on a brand-new rebel fighter. It’s depicting events that occur in between the chronology of the original six episodes. But one of the biggest breaks with tradition, according to [_Entertainment Weekly_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/23/star-wars-rogue-one-reshoot-concerns), will definitely be the movie’s style. Even the iconic _Star Wars_ opening script crawl, which has been a standard across the trilogies, is still very much up for debate in the new spinoff — and may not make it in. “The crawl and some of those elements live so specifically within the ‘saga’ films that we are having a lot of discussion about what will define the \[stand-alone\] _Star Wars Stories_ separate and apart from the saga films,” said Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. “So we’re right in the middle of talking about that.” That’s all part of the overall look and feel of the film. “He \[director Gareth Edwards\] does a lot of handheld, intimate, close-up work. That’s not something you’ve necessarily seen in a _Star Wars_ movie before,” Kennedy said. “And we brought in \[cinematographer\] Greig Fraser, to shoot it, who had done _Zero Dark Thirty_. So a combination of Greig and Gareth…just gives it a really unique style.” Despite the violence and warfare present in the original six films (and last year’s _Force Awakens_), those movies had always been marked by a kind of youthful optimism, peppered with plenty of jokes, slapstick humor and visual gags. But it looks like _Rogue One_ will be doing away with those lighter elements. “I’d definitely describe it as: It’s got dark tone,” said director Gareth Edwards. “The studio has been very supportive of that.” So, as the movie undergoes reshoots this summer in preparation for its winter release, fans can at least rest assured that _Rogue One_ is definitely taking itself seriously. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4381997/star-wars-rogue-one-crawl/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4381997/star-wars-rogue-one-crawl/"},"headline":"Here’s One Major Way Rogue One Will Differ From Classic Star Wars Movies","datePublished":"2016-06-24T18:45:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:45.392Z","description":"Rogue One is going rogue","url":"https://time.com/4381997/star-wars-rogue-one-crawl/","keywords":["movies","Newsfeed","Entertainment"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta49bc9d240812529/69888e265f570fbc54b205ff/star-wars-rogue-one-5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta49bc9d240812529/69888e265f570fbc54b205ff/star-wars-rogue-one-5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"star-wars-rogue-one-5","caption":"Felicity Jones in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story","creditText":"Lucasfilm Ltd.","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4381997/star-wars-rogue-one-crawl/","name":"Here’s One Major Way Rogue One Will Differ From Classic Star Wars Movies"}}]}] ```