I’ve had a good session this evening working on the single movie plan. I’ve now gone through all seven episodes and done a rough cut which came in at 2h 58mins, which is obviously too long with a 40 minute finale still to come. However, there is definitely a lot more than can be cut.

I then went back and did a more detailed cut of the first two episodes and I believe I now have a workable first act which allows the plot to progress quickly but maintains our character introductions. This comes in at 50mins:
Logos and crawl: 2mins
Episode 1: 34mins
Episode 2: 15mins

The main changes from the first cut are:

Cutting the whole Ahsoka map sequence.
Sabine now names the Denab system in the med bay as soon as Ahsoka asks her about the map.
Re-inserted scene where Morgan sends Shin to Lothal.

So act 1 now plays out as:

Rescue of Morgan
Ahsoka and Hera on Home One.
Sabine speeder intro & Ezra hologram.
Baylan/Shin/Morgan at the temple remains - Shin sent to Lothal.
Ahsoka & Sabine reunion on Lothal.
Sabine takes star map and opens it.
Sabine v Shin.
Combined Medbay scenes - Sabine reveals Denab system to Ahsoka. Ahsoka leaves and Huyang persuades Sabine to re-start her training.
Sabine returns to the Comms tower, suits up, cuts her hair and contacts Ahsoka.
Morgan arrives on Seatos and opens the star map.
Ahsoka collects Sabine and they jump into Hyperspace.
The Final hyperdrive arrives at the Eye of Sion.

Act 2 is where a lot of fat needs to be trimmed and I’ll work on that this week after the premiere. I desperately want to keep the Clone Wars flashbacks but they may have to go 😦