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Lucas To Redo Star Wars In 3-D
Warlock7 writes "You might have thought that it was going to all be over on May 19 with the release of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Well, not so fast. It seems that George Lucas is planning to re-re-release the Star Wars films in a new 3-D format. There are also several other directors that are interested in this new technology and they are trying to get theaters to install new technology to allow the showing of their films in the new 3-D format [req free reg]."
What does Lucas do anyway, just wake up every now and then and think "in what new ways can I rape the fond memories of a younger generation"?
This guy's gone totally batshit insane. I think the best thing anyone could do for the franchise at this point is put the man in a damned straighjacket and throw him off the brooklyn bridge with a lead weight in a backpack on his back.
I can respect that some people may have liked the first two pieces (even if it wasn't my cup of tea, so to speak), and this third one might be okay, but this is a little ridiculous.
PLEASE GEORGE JUST STOP. It was a great idea the first time through with episodes 4-6, and I understand that you had to round it out with the first three parts of the series, but you're just hurting us now. Please.... please stop hurting us.
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"You might have thought that it was going to all be over on May 15 with the release of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith."
I don't know anybody that is foolish enough to believe that this was over. As long as there is an interest and the opportunity to make some money, it isn't going to be over. Many folks thought that Star Wars would end in the 70s. It is still around decades later and still making a profit. You don't get rid of a profitable interest.
If the entertainment factor is there, I'll go see more. Will the market of 'Star Wars Enthusiasts' allow more movies to be made? Will we see different plots in the future? Will we see more 'enhanced' versions? I'd think probably. They may suck, but I would bet that we are not done with 'Star Wars' for quite a while. I hope that what comes out is good.
When are we going to get sick of it?
It could be worse, it could be Monday.
"Who is Redo and where is Start?"
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Solo won't shoot at all.
He'll have a badly redubbed over diplomatic way out of it...
Naaah. This'll be a good thing, if Lucas doesn't mess with his own work again.
Oh yay.
Jar-Jar in even MORE 3d.
3d Jar-Jar...
Thanks. Now I'm going to have nightmares. The bad kind.
yippie. fuckin. kai. aye. what is really the point? if he must muddle in the SW universe, why not expand it? why the remake? is hollywood that empty of ideas?
This DVD set will be called "Star Wars: The Expensive Edition".
Four words: Jar-Jar in 3D
"Oh the humanity!"
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Purely from a technological, eye-candy standpoint I'd like to see this.
Of course, what other "brilliant re-edits" will we be subjected to for the re-re-re-release?
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You might have thought that it was going to all be over on May 15 with the release of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
Lucas originally promised 9 episodes.
his fans are going to make sure he delivers, even if it involves necromancy.
Isn't a 2D JarJar torture enough?
If anyone at Lucasfilm reads this, please, please convey my hopes that we can put Star Wars (the original three movies) away and, if we MUST perpetuate the franchise, do so by releasing new films by up-and-coming directors and writers who have interesting stories to tell.
I know that's a tad radical for Hollywood, but then Lucasfilm WAS a tad radical once....
Could he possibly add a third dimension to the characters as well?
Its like a million voices all cried out in agony, and were suddenly silenced. Surely this is some cruel early April fools day joke? How much more craptacular can he make those movies? And how many ways can he find to ruin them again and again?
its the pr0nography industry that'll have the final say........ and let's hope they go for it!
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Forget Star Wars, I'm more excited about "The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl in 3-D." I mean, c'mon, with a title like that you know it's gotta be good!
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Anyone have any information on how these 3d films are different from past attempts at 3d? Do you still wear glasses? If not, how would this look any different than a normal film?
Due to the fact that I can only see out of one eye, I'm usually let down by such presentations of 3d. They all depend on the viewer wearing a set of glasses and being able to see out of 2 eyes. I wonder if this new 3d technology can actually do anything for people like me?
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I fully support George Lucas in his endeavors to make the Star Wars films fit his original vision.
Horse, meet whip. Horse? Are you OK Horse?
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From the article, Jackson screened remastered portions from the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy that featured a looming Gollum and battle dust that virtually fell onto the audience.
I do hope that Lucas doesn't adopt that particular idea of Peter Jackson's.
Jar Jar is bad enough when projected on a screen. I'd hate to think about how I'd feel if he were "out and about" in the audience, so to speak.
Please, Jar Jar, stay where you are. Don't come any closer.
Why doesn't he try to do something new instead of working on milking us for the 43 different version of the star wars serie, he could try to milk us for other versions of new series. I am truely a genius!
This is totally insecure, but very convenient.
Am not willing to pay a higher ticket price at the theater because Lucas wants the opportunity to re-re-re-release the Start Wars series in 3D this time.
Cinema owners will pass this on to the consumer, and that'll suck.
And, quite frankly, Lucas is starting to seem more and more irrelevant with his one-trick pony.
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Jesus H. Christ on a grilled cheese sandwich, give it up, George! You've raped Star Wars repeatedly in the ass with a razor-coated cock sheath while beating it over the head with a broken bottle and biting it in the neck! It's dead, you fucking necrophiliac! You've killed it, and yet you STILL want more? Burn in hell, Lucas.
So if they are all gung-ho about this new technology, how do they expect it to match sales long-term? 3-D has been tried before, several times, and is only appealing for a little while, until the novelty wears off and people realize it's a fucking gimmick.
Besides, as far as I can tell, this new technology can't translate to DVD/any-other-form-of-consumer-owned-media, so do they really expect to make that much on theater sales alone? Lucas, of *anybody* in Hollywood, should be advocating a technology that will be easily transferrable into homes for years to come, not limited solely to theaters.
anyone else remember the southpark bit about this?
Are you refering to the the sanctimonious episode? Oh, wait, that includes all of them.
So we'll be able to see the holographic "chess" match as it was intended...finally....of course too many releases of Star Wars are prone to make original fans want to pull Lucas' arms from his sockets.
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When you've got a 1D story, make a 3D picture!
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There's no way this would get accepted as a submission so I'm posting it here:
From the imdb.com:
Hire a production crew who grew up during the original Star Wars era. Get a director like Peter Jackson, who has shown that he understands how to use great effects, tell a story on a grand scale, stay faithful to the original spirit and respect the fans. Have this production company make episodes 7,8 and 9 that were planned long ago. Now that might kick ass.
Lucas was a creative guy with an idea that worked. It became a business. I think Lucas is a far better business man than he is a creative man. Judge this by the success of the franchise and merchandising compared to the quality of the written dialog.
Without a moral judgement on purity of art, etc... Lucas is simply doing what any shrewd business owner does... Market the franchise. Find ways to resell an old product in new packaging, and keep the money flowing in.
Why, oh why, didn't I take the Blue Pill?
From TFA:
"It's really a beautiful system, and one of the reasons I'm promoting it today is I'm extremely anxious to reissue that old group of films I did so long ago in a galaxy far away," Lucas said.
Well, you know, it has been almost eight years since the original trilogy was rereleased in theaters, and six months since the DVDs came out. Of course Lucas is anxious to reissue the movies - the public has pretty much forgotten about them in this fast-paced world. Lucas needs to bring the movies back to the forefront of the public consciousness, because they haven't been there in months.
Seriously, though, does Lucas think he's kidding anybody anymore? It's so obvious that his vision isn't artistic, it's financial. He sees a way to keep making a mint with a minimum of effort, and every new film-oriented technology allows him to release Star Wars according to his "original vision," which was somehow compromised in every previous release.
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Hmm strange I don't see any posts linking the story title to the department...
Nature Trail to Hell was the last (and best IMO) track on Weird Al's "In 3D" album!
"Coming this Christmas to a theatre near you......."
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"...These new active glasses that you're wearing and seeing 3-D with are a breakthrough in technology." "Active glasses" or shutter based glasses are not new. They shutter each eye so the right or left eye will see one side while the other eye's view is blacked out. It happens quickly enough and does create 3D but it DOES cause bad headaches after about 20-30 minutes of use. These have been available for some time now on computers. I even had a pair when I had an Amiga computer. Last time I saw 3D that didn't give me a headache was using Polaroid lenses in the frames. No flickering, no headaches and very clear 3D in full color.
It's like they're following me...
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You lack discipline! No not really, but I'm tired of any post that falls under the star wars category on here resulting in a million comments that can basically be summed up as follows: "Jar-Jar is stupid! Not more Jar-Jar!" "Lucas just wants more money" etc etc etc Alls I'm sayin is you guys need to learn to deal with the fact that George Lucas has a good time making these movies: they're like a hobby. Of course, a very-well paying hobby, but I think he genuinely enjoys making them. If you watch ay behind-the-scenes stuff its very apparent that he's putting alot of work in to them. Personally, I've liked all the movies and I don't find Jar-Jar overly annoying. He's just a different version of Treepio. Sure the dialogue is crappy here and there (rewatch the originals with the mindset of "oh these are ghey" and i'm sure you can find cheesy dialogue and whatnot), but he's just building more lore into the SW universe, which is always fun.
Ok, that'll probably require some re-rendering which I'm sure they have stuff away someplace, but without two camera angles I'm curious how you're supposed to see perspective. Maybe they do it with some re-shading, frame-by-frame, like the colorizing process.
The thing is, the boogerhead could just re-run all the films, as they are, during the summer and they'd pack theaters anyway.
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Talk about aggressive marketing overkill. MercuryNews is EVIL! I had to click through 12 advertising screens after finishing registering. This has to be some kind of record for the Internet (or at least a reputable news site).
That said, I will probably go and see the 3D re-releases (which has nothing to do with MercuryNews of course). Quit whining about Lucas raping your childhood. Just don't go. I didn't like Jar-Jar either. Get over it. Because it's based in space, many techie types feel they own the franchise more that Lucas and the public he is hawking it to. Last time I looked there are about 100 Star Wars novels available in bookstores. It's rapidly catching up with the Star Trek novels. To stop the movies, you would have to stop the books, which show how rabid people are for the saga to go on -- whether it meets your high standards for entertainment fair or not.
Maybe the 3-D will be good, maybe not. I have wondered why Disney/Pixar haven't re-released their films in 3-D. Some have been presented in IMAX (though not 3D IMAX as far as I know). Here you know the 3D re-rendering will be spot on. Technically it would have to me 2-orders of magnitude easier than converting 2D photographs. Disney will be Making a Toy Story 3 (alone), I'll be very surprised if it isn't Toy Story 3D.
That said, my viewing experience at home on HDTV is often better than what you see at the Cineplex (especially stuff shot directly in digital, rather than converted from film). I would gladly pay full ticket price to watch my stuff at home while in recent release if I could get it. The point is Cinemas will increasingly have to compete with a viewing experience in the home that rivals that of the theater. Just going wider (Cinamscope) like they did in '50s (and wider yet in the late '60s with Cinerama) wont cut it. People will increasingly start to wait for Movies to come out in Blu-Ray or HD-DVD if the industry doesn't do something to augment the viewing experience. Start looking for things like Sensoround to make a comeback, introduced for the 1974 disaster flick "Earthquake." Also expect several variations of motion simulation, some quite cheap like tilting chairs, and other that require individual pods with 6 degrees of freedom and everything in-between.
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In 2006 Lucas will release episodes 4 to 6 in Smell-o-vision.
You can smell the oily robots.
You can smell Luke's sweaty shirt.
You can smell the ozone as light sabers split the air.
You can smell it when Lord Vader's battle cruiser dumps the garbage! (ignore that it was in a vacuum)
And best of all! You can smell Princess Leia's hot, sweaty, brass bikini!
Domo-kun is a children's TV show character. The joke doesn't have anything to do with "fanboy," but rather with this well-known mangling of this image (safe for work).
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The main patent is #6,686,926 (linked above, this incorporates an earlier patent). Another related patent they have is #6,515,659.
In short: someone manually draws lines around each object and scoots it over for the right eye, background-cloning the gap. Their software assists in adjusting the object placements from one frame to the next, saving what would otherwise be a monumental task. Their "shift" algorithm is capable of assigning a bump-map-like distortion so the objects have a natural curve rather than being sprite cut-outs.
Side-note: to get a similar effect (for a few minutes at least), watch a movie with a pair of cheap sunglasses with one glass removed.
> Lucas's ideas are so pedestrian, so cliched, so utterly devoid of originality or creativity. The GOOD GUYS WEAR WHITE (Luke), and the BAD GUYS WEAR BLACK (Vader). (Yeah I know, the stormtroopers break the rule, but I'll bet you dollars to donuts that they're only white so Vader stood out on film).
You just contradict yourself and try to get out of it, but even you know you're not making any sense. Yes, the Stormtroopers were white so why are you making this stupid comment? And what's wrong with Vader having a black outfit.
Hey Luke wears black on ROTJ, and General Grievious is all white in Revenge of the Sith. What the hell are you talking about???
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Lucas should ask Pixar to make the next Star Wars film..?
Personally speaking I think it would be interesting to see what Pixar would do with something dark and semi-serious.
"does this mean Jar Jar dies quickly, yet abhorrently painfully???"
Sadly, no.
Instead, there is a scene of Obi-wan painting a picture of jar jar while he poses nude
And yes he does die, but it's a slow death while holding hands with obiwan
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