'The Last Jedi' director shares an exciting peek of the opening crawl

Lucasfilm has announced the title for Episode VIII -- Star Wars: The Last Jedi -- so the movie's director, Rian Johnson, can finally drop it into the opening crawl.

To the boundless excitement of Star Wars fans, Johnson shared on Instagram a glimpse of his ongoing editing process with the famed crawl -- which will be in Sith-red text -- on the big screen:

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"Felt so good to drop this into the cut this morning," Johnson wrote.

There's also R2-D2, just chillin' there in a corner as a good-luck mascot:

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The Last Jedi will be in theaters Dec. 15.