Vladius said:

Have you considered starting the movie during the escape, or on Coruscant or Tatooine, as some people have suggested? The current way the movie works, with long sequences of Naboo at the beginning and the end, is a little bit tiring. This way you can also combine some of the action.

I considered to start with Anakin on Tatoinne on a pod race and then loosing to Sebulba like he says he did later on the movie because I want to establish him as a character as early as possible because we don't see him until like 40 minutes into the movie. To do that I would have to take scenes from the original podrace and it is difficult to decide what goes on the first podrace and what goes on the original podrace. Also I believe it would take away from the second podrace because we've already seen a pod race before at the beginnig of the movie.

I might try to start on Naboo directly to the invasion and thenhave the Jedi go directly to the rescue.