All six films are supposed to return to the big screen, starting this year.
Anyone heard the strategy? All six, or just one every year for the next six years? Regular theatres or IMAX?
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Unfortunately we have.
I posted this in here and in the PT forums.
Originaly, it was to be one 3D release each year, starting with the 30th aniversary of ANH this may.
However...
Steve Sansweet tackled this question from one fan at the recent Fan Club Breakfast last week in San Diego. Here's his response as posted at Starwars.com.
"George and Rick are really excited about the technology they have seen in 3-D... they showed about 10 minutes of Star Wars at a trade industry show about a year ago, and there was a lot of great buzz. Well, a couple of things have turned out. You have to look at the business plan: When does it make sense to do something like that? And you need thousands of digital screen theaters. It does not work on a film projector... This may be the thing that is finally going to force a lot of theater chains to bring in digital projectors at least for one of their screens... A lot of theater chains have announced they are going ahead. That said, how long is it going to take to get three- to four- to five thousand theaters digitally converted? It's not going to happen this year. It's not going to happen by the end of next year. In addition, the process to do the movie turns out to be a little more expensive than initially thought. So you have the theaters converting, you have the costs of converting one or all of the six Star Wars movies into 3-D, and you have the fact that the technology involves wireless battery-operated glasses that blink maybe a thousand times a second; it's not like a red and blue lens. So you have to take all those factors into consideration. I think Lucasfilm is still very interested in releasing the saga in 3-D. I think it's really just a matter of time, but I don't think it's going to be in the next couple of years."
^^^That was near the end of 2006, I think Sept.
As for just a regular re-release for the 30th, that's possible and more likely, but I've not heard anything about it yet.
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i dont think were getting anything on the big screen this year
i doubt were getting a major release of ANH
its going to be a hard sell seeing as the OT dvds have been released in 3 box sets and individually in the past 3 years and add the fact that an SW pic has been on sky nearly twice a day since October
i love the OT but i remember getting a bit( i dont know if bored is the right word) restless during the S.E
how many times can a long term SW fan with his marbles mostly in tact watch these things
we got a couple of games and a 30th anniversary MAKING OF SW book coming with dozens of unseen photos
knowing my luck its probably filled with the pics ive posted
Lucas's strong points aren'e dialogue and acting. There has alwaya been too much of that, but all the great epic sequences were cut out of the PT, so Lucas was rarely even reliant on his stong points.
Anakin and Kenobi were almost never where the main battleaction was.
This is the greatest flaw of the PT.
p.s. It's not a call for endless SFX or fight sequences with no plot (ROTS).
Jan 19th, 2007 04:36 PM
