WIP
Working on recontextualizing the beginning of AOTC presenting Dooku MUCH earlier. The sequence playing out as follows:
Padme’s ship is bombed.
Padme in the senate (deleted scene) that intercuts with Dooku reacting (from near the end of the film, the Neimoidians redubbed and or subtitled for new context)
J cut that to Dooku and the CIS table talk.
After that there’s a scene inspired by a deleted scene from ROTJ where Vader force talks to Luke. Here Dooku talks to Yoda (using the scene of him after Anakin killed the Tuskens) that will feature snippets of dialogue of the duel from the end of the film, plus other dialogue implemented, e.g… “Master Yoda, the senate cannot be fixed, it is time to start over”. After that scene we cut to Palp’s office.
“It’s gonna be great”
I like the idea of Yoda talking to Dooku at the start a lot. Could probably make a pretty compelling scene if you got creative with AI lines, and there would be no need to worry about lip syncing.