Wow, George Lucas would do anything for a buck, wouldn't he? I mean, this is sort of cool for people who haven't seen the original trilogy or whatever, but I just feel this is another cash in on a cinema gimmick (3D) by Mr. Lucas.
Lucas Re-Releasing Star Wars Movies in 3D
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See, this is why I like the newer DVD releases of the old trilogy. The 2 disc ones, with one being the (shit) special edition, and the other, the original theatrical version. Go and buy them if you only have the "special" ones.
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OT: How much longer are they going to milk the the franchise? You already killed it with that God-awful CGI movie, how much more do you want to torture us!?
Why? We don't need to watch them in 3d, they are not meant to be watched in 3d. Converting movies that originally were not shot in 3d is basically raping them, hell, even Jame$ Cameron said so.
What the ass?
Haven't we milked these enough yet? And it isn't even like the 3D will be good, because they didn't shoot them in 3D.
Haven't we milked these enough yet? And it isn't even like the 3D will be good, because they didn't shoot them in 3D.
Looks like George Lucas' giant bucket of cocaine is running low again.
But I think we all knew that Lucasfilm would be releasing 'newer, better' versions of the films every few years to get us to buy them again and again, playing on our nostalgia and hoping that this time the films will somehow be different and make them feel like it was 1977 (or whenever they first saw them) again.
But I think we all knew that Lucasfilm would be releasing 'newer, better' versions of the films every few years to get us to buy them again and again, playing on our nostalgia and hoping that this time the films will somehow be different and make them feel like it was 1977 (or whenever they first saw them) again.
Fuck no. Lucas has been dead to me since episode 1, and I can't watch 3D anyway because of my glasses. But even ignoring that, this is kind of bullshit, isn't it. The dead horse has been beaten into a fine powder by now, and he's still beating it -.-
Hard to do for liscencing reasons.CloakedOne said:
If you've been following Star Wars through the decades you would know that the future of the universe after the end of the movies exists in a real world legal tangle of epic proportions. The reason being is that George Lucas basically sold the rights to the canon on several occasions when he believed it was "done" and he couldn't make more money on it. There was a huge fight with Dark Horse Comics over this back in the day, and another battle with the producers of a series of young adult novels (The Glove Of Darth Vader, etc...) on similar merits when he managed to engage in legal wrangling to get the rights to the canon back. Opinions on who was right in these cases varies, as a lot of people feel Mr. Lucas used his star power to leverage some improbable rulings in his favor.
Right now you have a ton of novels taking place after the movies that are loosely connected to Timothy Zahn's "Thrawn" character and that whole vision of the future. However overall those novels are a giant, contridictory mess that can spawn massive fanboy arguements that can make Warhammer 40k fan arguements about similar things seem mild in comparison.
One of the things George Lucas did to smooth feathers was include some aspects of the various works other people did when they rightfully owned it into the canon. While it went no where "Shadows Of The Empire" was part of a negotiation with Dark Horse Comics for them to insert something into the Canon, however you'll notice it pretty much disappeared after that along with it's definition of what a Sith was (the actual alien race). The rancor riding witches and "lost city of the Jedi" were from the first young adult novels if I recall as well.
The problem is that if someone does a sequel right now, even him, increasingly wary observers are going to be defending the right for their novels to be considered Canon (which is what their success is dependant on) due to contracts and such. with the contridictions involved, along with the complete lack of room for creativity due to how much has been written (which in some way covers everything you could think of, and then some) it makes doing sequels a nightmare.
As a fanboy you might say "well, they could work through that and do it anyway, I wants me some sequels and new material! moar movies! moar!", but if you were a writer who was making money based off of writing canon fiction set after the end of the triology, you have a vested interest in the integrity of your work, not to mention having paid for the right to produce those things to begin with.
Besides which, I don't think there is anyone out there who could do justice to the universe except me (evil fanboy laugh), sentiments shared by many of my fellow fans. Sadly this includes poeople like George Lucas given the travesties he's inflicted, and even writers like Timothy Zahn and RA Salvatore, who came up with some neat stuff, but also some pretty bad stuff as well. There is pretty much nobody out there that would be agreed on as a possible writer for more movies, assuming the problems with the liscencing and determining canon could even be dealt with. After some of the battles, like with "Dark Horse" people are a lot more ready to defend themselves now. George Lucas has an... interesting business reputation for a reason.
I had similar thoughts when reading this. I sort of suspect that the whole motivation for wanting to do these movies in 3D is so Jar Jar can stick his tongue in the face of the vieweers.Dorian6 said:
*Facepalm* are any of us really surprised? After the success of Avatar, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood's biggest whore for special effects jumped on the 3D bandwagon. You can also bet your ass that the saga will be re-released when we also invent Holograms, Smell-o-vision, Choose your own adventure movies, and any other stupid gimmick Lucas can use to milk any of his franchises for.