I would be interested to know just how many more subplots/alternate plots/deleted scenes were filmed from Rogue One. For fan editors, I wonder if there is enough footage to split the film into two parts. The climax of film one being the events that happen on Eadu. The second film being all about the big moments for the Rebellion and Erso’s group attacking Scariff.

I’m not suggesting that this theatrically should have been two films or anything like that. From a fan edit POV, I wonder how different the first hour of the film was with all this alternate footage we are seeing. The stuff with Saw, the shots of Vader in front of the Death Star screen, the weirdos on Jedha. Even restoring the original plot point that the communications dish and the archives were not located in the same building and having Erso make her way across the island and battling the garrison.

I like the film the way it was cut for the theatrical release, although I would still remove the flashback scene and replace it with a crawl but I feel like there is so much that was removed and then replaced that there is almost a whole other film in there.