Lucas: ''Episode III'' is ''Titanic''-like. He also says he plans to rerelease all the ''Star Wars'' movies in 3D beginning in 2007 by Gary Susman



NEAR, FAR Lucas will go on

Paying a visit on Thursday to ShoWest, the annual convention of movie theater owners in Las Vegas, George Lucas tried to drum up a few bookings for the May 19 release of Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith, offering the following pitch: ''It's not like the first one. It's more emotional.'' He added, ''I describe it as a Titanic in space. It's a real tearjerker, and it will be received in a way that none of us can expect.'' (Gee, George, I expect it to gross hundreds of millions of dollars.) Lucas didn't elaborate on what he meant by ''Titanic in space,'' but let's hope it means a more emotional and character-driven drama than the last two movies, and not that Lucas hired Celine Dion to sing the theme song.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lucas also told theater owners that he plans to rerelease all the Star Wars films in 3D. He said he hoped to rerelease the original Star Wars in 3D in time for its 30th anniversary in 2007, with the rest following at a rate of one per year. So it could be 2012 before Lucas is finished tinkering with his universe.

(Posted:03/18/05)

i knew it wasn't gonna end after this!

Is it even possible to turn a normal film into a 3d version? I thought in order to give the image depth in 3d films 2 cameras were used simultaneously , one shooting at an angle, and then the 2 sources were run together. This is why you have to wear those glasses and watching a 3D presentation without them results in a blurred picture.
Of course, I'm not a techno nerd in any way, so I could be totally wrong.

gsh said:

Apparently the mans gonna reshoot the entire series again.

Lucas and his Star Wars =

Bugger the 3D, just give us the third 'trilogy of trilogies', set after Return of the Jedi.

sabaisabai said:

i want that too but...what would the story be about? since everyone is either dead or happy at the end of jedi.....

sabaisabai said:

I Agree!


Lucas! stop tinkering and get on with Episode VII.

sosgemini said:

It's about the offspring of Han Solo & Leia, and the return the 'phantom'.

sosgemini said:

Oh I don't know. I'm sure it could be about something interesting. Lucas has the whole universe and space continuum to play around with, and he's a darn better writer than I am.

Happiness is only like the Ethereal mix of Cream.

gsh said:

from cnn.com:

3-D goes back to the future
New technology converts films to 3-D
Friday, March 18, 2005 Posted: 12:49 PM EST (1749 GMT)


LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) -- After a brief incarnation in the early 1950s and a short-lived revival in the 1980s, 3-D movies are now getting serious consideration among filmmakers who want to send images leaping off the movie screen and into the audience.

"Star Wars" creator George Lucas and "Titanic" director James Cameron were among those promoting a new digital alteration that converts two-dimensional movies into 3-D.

Theatergoers still have to wear those familiar cardboard glasses with red-and-blue cellophane, although backers of the new technology say it doesn't cause the eyestrain common with past 3-D efforts.

Lucas said he hopes eventually to release all six of his "Star Wars" movies in 3-D format that can be shown in regular moviehouses, not specialty theaters such as IMAX.

"It looks better than the original, to be honest with you," Lucas told theater owners Thursday at their annual ShoWest convention.

Developed by In-Three Inc. of Agoura Hills, California, the new technology involves converting a movie into two slightly offset images, one for each eye. The special glasses trick the brain into perceiving the picture as a single image.

Unlike some 3-D systems that require two side-by-side film projectors, In-Three's system operates with a single digital projector, the filmmakers said.

A snippet of "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones" converted to 3-D was screened, and the images showed remarkable depth in a scene where Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi pursue an assassin in a flying vehicle.

While the filmmakers all have an interest in releasing old movies in 3-D and shooting new ones in the format, they also tried to sell theater owners on digital systems to replace film-reel projectors that have been the standard for a century.

The digital projectors can be inexpensively modified to handle 3-D, they said.

"I can't shoot in a lesser format," said Cameron, who is filming the science-fiction adventure "Battle Angel," in 3-D. "I believe that 3-D is absolutely the future... They'll have to pry my glasses out of my cold, dead fingers."

3-D is going to take it up a notch with the technology that's available, not to mention in IMAX with that sound system, I can't wait but I guess 2007 is actually a wait

Current 3D movies can leave the viewer feeling quite nauseous. I wonder if the new 3D technologies can avoid this?

superspaceboy said:

Realy. talk about milking something for everything it's got. Where's STAR WARS: THE MUSICAL???

I recently saw Camerons latest IMAX 3D documentry, and I have to say I was impressed, though there were a couple parts here and there that I think the 3D effect failed. It would be very interesting to see how a 2D -> 3D conversion looks...

amyhr said:

Yeah, the 3D effects were cool but the movie sucked. Wouldn't a 2D conversion be a reguar movie vs a 3D movie?