Episode VIII director Rian Johnson shared an image of the film’s opening crawl on his Instagram account at the beginning of this year. He then revealed via an interview segment with MTV News during Celebration Orlando that the opening crawl would be comprised of three paragraphs in length.
Now, during a D23 Expo post-Episode VIII panel interview with the LA Times, Johnson revealed a key word that is included in the crawl for The Last Jedi. Johnson was asked what it was like working on the film’s crawl and the inherent pressure that comes with creating such an iconic piece of cinematic history.
But was there a particular phrase or word he was most proud to sneak into the first moments of “The Last Jedi”?
“It would be funny if it was ‘poop,’” he said with a grin. “Which is a first for the ‘Star Wars’ universe. That’s the whole crawl, just the word ‘poop.’”
Then he answered seriously, turning to the side to avoid being caught on camera mouthing even one word from the highly secretive script:
“Decimated,” he said, and he looked quite proud.
