While James Cameron’s success with Avatar was a big reason Lucas is pushing ahead with the conversion process, it was also a case that the director wanted to wait until there were enough 3D screens to support a decently wide re-release. Of course, given how many 3D movies are planned for release in that year, it’s entirely possible that the marketplace will again be crowded.
Still, to give the man credit, he’s taking his time with the new versions, personally overseeing the conversion process to get them right. And even though the Blu-Rays are due next year, he’s hoping that by the time The Phantom Menace’s release rolls around in 2012, the 3D home entertainment market will be up and running properly.
While we’re not entirely sure any of the Star Wars series really needs 3D, there are a few scenes we could enjoy seeing with TIE fighters screeching over our heads and some extra depth in those big Hoth landscapes…
But what say you? Does it feel like an event? Or more like Lucas squeezing another few drops out of his legacy?
Truly a film series as big as this will always have fans racing to the front of the line, whether it be the loyal fan to the die hard fan in a fully scaled perfect rendition of Jango Fett or chewy.
ReplyDeleteBut what does this say about cinema in a culture of today with faster internet and movie access from already large and even larger tv screens.
Has the human attention span diminished so much that the only way we can get them to sit still for 2hrs is depth perception.
Granted like many others who have been lost to the spell, we'll always have time to fit in one day in the year, completely for dedication.
But if the series has already been won over and over again, it does little to wow an already hungry market, why re-release when the audience just wants the deemed unobtainable 7th episode.
Star wars is the greatest icon and benchmark for sci-fiction/ fantasy for it's time even til today, but doing this move just makes the series appear to be submitting to glory of Avatar.
But then again, we've always loved and continue to do so, secretly we all just need that excuse to pull out the old Vader and Obi-wan outfits and feel the same the magic as though it was 1977 again.
-Andrew B
But can you just imagine all the Death Star battle scenes i.e. X-wing scenes in 3D? It should be awesome!
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