aalenfae said:

I am very very interested in this edit now.
Super radical, man.

I wanna see how this will work!

Thanks. The purpose in starting the film with Geonosis accomplishes many things better: Anakin and Obi as good friends, Anakin and Padme's growing, yet dangerous relationship, Dooku as the bad guy, and a more interesting way to start off the movie. Obi will still go to Kamino as "Yoda has taken the remaining few from the volunteer army to save Obi, Anakin and Padme". There is still the assasination plot, but it is explained in the crawl Padme has been danger for a while now. The film will reroute itself to the scenes after the arena to finish off the movie, when it is discovered that Dooku/ Fett was behind it all. The new structure really helps the film, letting me give new context for scenes that would otherwise be cut for certain issues. Right now the goal film length is a little under 2 hours.