Is there a way to edit it instead of commander holdo its Leia Doing the lightspeed scene.
Perhaps. It is much easier to edit Luke being the one to do it. You just repurpose the shots of him contacting Leia through the force and instead you intercut those shots with the ship turning and the First Order freaking out.
Leia on the other hand, I don’t know.
That would be so sick. Luke decides to help earlier or senses Leia in danger or something and wipes out the First Order fleet. I would use the part with him straining in meditation from the projection scene, but that does create a continuity issue with his projection and actual death. Maybe do Crait at the beginning like some are suggesting, then have Luke sacrifice himself destroying the fleet. This also explains why no one has done a hyperspace ram before; part of it involves the Force.
Probably the thing I hate most about the movie is its smug contempt for the audience. "What did you think, I was going to face down the whole First Order myself with a laser sword?"
Yes please! Why is that idea so offensive, to have Luke Skywalker be the hero we know and love?
Yoda flipping around with a lightsaber is one thing, because the whole point of his character is that he’s physically limited but wise and strong in the Force. Luke, on the other hand, is a classical hero that performs mighty feats. It makes sense that an older Luke would be more advanced with the Force and use misdirection rather than straight violence, but at the point of the movie where he decides to help the Resistance, it would be so much more satisfying for him to do some actual honest-to-goodness damage.
For what it’s worth, my “headcanon” or speculation about why Luke exiled himself at the end of TFA -
Due to secrets learned through his studies and travels, Luke has become godlike in his own power, and is afraid to use it directly in vulgar destruction for fear of falling to the dark side. He is concerned that his sorrow/anger for Ben and his hatred of Snoke would overcome him and he wouldn’t be able to stop himself from just taking control of everything. He retires to Ach-To to detach himself from the physical world and remove the temptation. The death of Han only makes things worse and adds a further complication.
Rey convinces him to help because of his love for Leia, his friends, and the galaxy. (If you want to do the moral of “focus on what you love, not what you hate,” I think this is a much better way to do it.) Like at the end of Return of the Jedi but at a more cosmic scale, he finds peace within himself and no longer acts in anger.