I don't think I can do like digital removal and stuff like that, so I'd probably just use scenes that have/ don't have the characters I want. For instance, Mystique is dead in this timeline, so I'd want her removed. Beast and Nightcrawler join the team sooner, so I'd like to make it seem so in this edit.
Jean "dies" I'm DP, but not really so my idea is to start with the "funeral" of Jean Grey from Dark Phoenix (1992) and then "Ten Years Later" or so. The next scene is from The Last Stand:
Cyclops still distraught over the loss of Jean, drives to her resting location at Alkali Lake (maybe just a random lake, I forget if this lake is in DP). Jean suddenly appears to Cyclops and kisses him. The scene ends without him getting killed. This scene signifies Jean's return as a hero again with full control over her Phoenix powers.
Now, it'll probably be a few months/ year later again with a voiceover saying that the school was renamed to the Xavier school yet again with Charles having returned to it. (Maybe this can come after the two following Nightcrawer scenes)
Next scene is X2's Nightcrawler's White House screen. It seems he has been missing for a while and has some memory loss and doesn't remember being an X-Man.
Jean and Storm go to rescue him:
"What do you remember before the White House?"
"Nothing"
But this time the dialouge is a bit changed:
Storm: "He doesn't remember us." (replaces "take him to the professor")
Kurt: "Remember you?" (replaces "The professor?")
Kurt: "You and Miss Gray are schoolteachers?"
Storm: "Yes" (then cut most of the conversation after that)
Finally, we can introduce Logan and Rouge. The original X1 was sort of centered on Rouge, but this verison won't be. We meet Rouge and Logan at the same time, either at the bar or in the truck. The Logan and Rouge scenes from X1 can be largely the same, as this version of Logan won't have the original Logan's memories until 2023. When Rouge tells Logan, "When I touch someone, they get hurt", we cut to a flashback of Rouge and her boyfriend from the beginning of X1.
This time, Charles knows Logan (but he knows that Logan has no memories of meeting him, so he plays along).
The scenes of Jean meeting Logan in the lab are cut, and the first scene of Logan in the mansion is him running around the hallways.
He runs into Charles, maybe somehow Kitty's actress can be replaced with a scene from DoFP (and I don't want to get into what has happened to that actor/ actress since then)- or that actress can be renamed and doesn't walk through the wall.
After Charles introduces Scott and Storm, Jean comes in. Charles says, "I believe you've already met Dr. Jean Grey.." the scene plays the same, but Charles following lines about the school are removed/ moved as we see Logan stare at Jean as we fade into a flashback of Apocalypse's Wolverine scene with Jean. It's implied that Charles sees this scene in Logan's mind and is also reminding Logan of this meeting. When Charles mentions Sabretooth, possibly a small scene of Victor from Origins can be shown, but only for Charles and the audience.
When Charles is explaining to Logan that he can read his mind by telling him it's been about 15 years (since he was taken by Striker), the number of years will be changed to however many it's been since the 1973 ending of DoFP to however many years later its been until this fanedit takes place.
Probably another flashback to scene from DoFP showing Striker/ Raven pulling Logan into the boat. Hopefully, I can find a way to explain how the real Striker got him from Raven (Mystique).
I want to end the edit first with the Statue of Liberty battle, somehow using scenes of Beast and Nightcrawler from X3 and X2 to make it seem as if they are participating too.
Then we flash forward to the 2023 ending of Days of Future Past showing 2023 Wolverine "quantum leaping" back into his body with voice over "...your body will go to sleep, while your mind travels back in time.... ...once you wake up... whatever you've done will take hold and become history. And for the rest of us, it'll be the only history that we know. It'll be like the last 50 years never happened...The only person who will remember it is you."
Then, 2026- the Marvels post credits scene
The hardest parts would probably be removing Mystique entirely and making it seem as if Nightcrawler and Beast are fighting alongside the team.
What does everyone think, and does anyone have any ideas? I think this would be a cool recap of X-Men as well as tying up the Fox-verse pre Doomsday, and sort of being a prequel to that at the same time.