Would it be possible to have a quick scene maybe after the council scene where Obi wan overhears a conversation between qui gon and dooku? You wouldn’t even really have to see them, they could be on another side of a wall or something. And Obi wan is just overhearing. Theres gotta be phantom menace footage of Obi wan walking and then standing around looking concerned that could be rotoscoped onto a new background.
And both Liam Neeson and Christopher Lee have a wide enough body of work to pull dialogue from. I imagine there’s quite a bit of useful dialogue you could pull from hobbit/lotr.
You probably could. But even so, if you don’t actually see Dooku talking to Qui Gon, you won’t know that the guy at the funeral is even him. I mean, if you know the series, then you would, and it’s fine. But I think part of the storytelling issues in the prequels is the over-reliance of pre-existing knowledge of the other films. Leaning on this crutch in an edit, I think, is a mistake.
I’m doing my best to treat this edit as an introduction to the Star Wars mythos, to the extent I can.