This whole thread is a lot to go through and I’ve only really skimmed the posts so far, so maybe what I say has already been touched upon. I personally think a collaborative edit is a great idea, though one that’s probably unrealistic. Having spent a fair amount of time here, it’s clear that it’ll never really be possible to come to a consensus in regards to fan editing these movies.

How Hal’s TFA v2 came together is a good example of collaboration, though I think that’s in a very specific context, i.e. working together to make one (and only one) specific change work, with the edit being available as a base for people to make other changes they want to make. So I personally think the lesson is the collaboration can work, in regards to specific edit ideas.

Essentially what I mean, is there are certain edit ideas like “let’s move the destruction of the Republic to the third act of TFA” that can be done better collaboration, though I don’t think specific edits of whole films can. Basically, I do think it’d be really cool to have a thread that serves as sort of resource for specific idea conception and execution. So instead of collaborating to make whole edits, it’s collaborating to make small cuts that anyone can take and insert into their own whole edits.