Hello-
I made a fan edit of EP VII. It’s my first time so go easy on me.
I took out the Rathtar sequence, the third Death Star storyline, I removed Snoke, took out C3P0s red arm bit, I took out R2 and I removed a lot of instances of the “map” and I tried to cut out a lot of bad expository dialogue and cut some scenes shorter.
The story now travels from Fin to Rey to Han to the scene on the planet with Maz. Rey is kidnapped and the map is returned to Leia. Han, Chewie and Fin head out to save Rey. Han is murdered by Ben and the final fight happens. Leia doesn’t hug Rey. (They haven’t even met yet! Not to mention that Chewie doesn’t hug her.) Then Rey leaves Fin and goes looking for Luke.
I think this makes for a solid more concise storyline without going on too many tangents.
I showed Harmy a cut and recently sent him a revised edit. I’m not really sure what to do with it now. I think what’s most important is that if you can take out these big story elements they actually don’t need to be in the film or should be in the film.
I look forward to seeing all these other fan edits that I see people talking about here.
Thanks