Topic: Star Wars films to be re-released in 3d

[knightstorm]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/movies/30lucas.html?_r=1&ref=movies

Hopefully they'll do a good job with the conversion, because this could be great.

[Nemesis]

Note to George:  When you make a classic work of art and keep messing with it you are bound to destroy it.  Leave it alone.  Create something new. 

[Sirgod]

What Nem said.

Stephen

[Nemesis]

In the same vein apparently there is a remake of Forbidden Planet  in the works.   

On the other hand apparently the creator of Babylon 5 is working on a Lensman film.  (Old SciFi novel series of Space Opera by E.E. Doc Smith).  That I'd love to see as a TV show.   The Lensman anime out of Japan wasn't true to the original novels.

[Tus-XC]

Lensman film or tv show?  Would love it either way

[knightstorm]

Note to George:  When you make a classic work of art and keep messing with it you are bound to destroy it.  Leave it alone.  Create something new.

He's not adding any new scenes or visual effects other than the 3d.  While I would like it if he went back to Han shooting first, and removed Hayden from ROTJ, this won't make the films worse.  I think that certain scenes from the trilogy such as the death star trench run are just asking to be put in 3d.

[Brush Wolf]

Note to George:  When you make a classic work of art and keep messing with it you are bound to destroy it.  Leave it alone.  Create something new.

He's not adding any new scenes or visual effects other than the 3d.  While I would like it if he went back to Han shooting first, and removed Hayden from ROTJ, this won't make the films worse.  I think that certain scenes from the trilogy such as the death star trench run are just asking to be put in 3d.

I can't see Lucas touching one of his movies without doing something to hugely change a scene or even the entire movie.

[Nemesis]

He's not adding any new scenes or visual effects other than the 3d. 

Yet . . .

[Hexx]

Also (as I've read it) Phantom Menace will be done first, the others if (and only if) Phantom menace makes enough money at the box office to warrant teh continuing transfer to 3D.
So if you want to see the trench run... pony up the cash for the 3 prequels.

This was (iirc) reported on Aint it cool, I'd believe it as if you seen interviews with Mr Lucas he seems befuddled that such derision was made of the Phantom Menace and the prequels, but at the same time, he's got to know that the original 3 are where the cash is.

[knightstorm]

Also (as I've read it) Phantom Menace will be done first, the others if (and only if) Phantom menace makes enough money at the box office to warrant teh continuing transfer to 3D

It does have that podrace scene.  And the fight at the control ship wouldn't look too shabby either.  I'll just wear earplugs so I don't have to listen to the dialogue.

[Kreeargh]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/movies/30lucas.html?_r=1&ref=movies

Hopefully they'll do a good job with the conversion, because this could be great.

Baah spend the $ on another 6 part series screw more remakes!  3d blows anyway. Gime the matrix plugin to make it FEAL real then i might vote a + on 3d.

[Lono]

Jar Jar in 3D = Skip!

Oh Lucas - how can one suck so much joy out of such an established property!??

(that includes Indy too)

If only he were to allow the best of the book authors to work with a director like Nolan or Peter Jackson - and create the most amazing last three episodes (in 3D) as the third arc of the trilogy.

Heck they could even just use the whole Yuuzhan Vong / Jacen Solo story - it could be utterly amazing!

There should be a law!

[Sirgod]

it is disheartening though.  all these remakes, all these remasters, and there is a ton of books I would love to see done on film.

Stephen R. Donaldson, Pohl, Asimov, the list goes on and on.

Stephen

[Brush Wolf]

The Forbidden Planet remake makes some sense as the original shows its age. My fear there is they will make a movie that resembles the original in no way.

[Kreeargh]

it is disheartening though.  all these remakes, all these remasters, and there is a ton of books I would love to see done on film.

Stephen R. Donaldson, Pohl, Asimov, the list goes on and on.

Stephen

Yep Original ideas are dead these days. " Another generation that has not seen it all is ready for " New stuff" Remakes / New tech cgi fixes  , Sad days ahead i think. Even Buffy the vampire slayer is up for a remake   

Edit :   The Thrawn series alone would make Lucas millions but no .  Not yet a Evil blue fellow in the mix its to evil so far . Maybe after the clone wars series Blue beings can be Evil?

[Tulwar]

If Lucas makes Episode IV anything like the origional edit, I'll get excited.  Unfortunately, the Star Wars series devolved into a collection of cliche's.

[Nemesis]

I saw the original 3 Star Wars movies in the theaters, some more than once.  I have tape and DVD copies.

The recent 3 on the other hand I did not see in the theater and though I have all 3 on DVD I've watched the first 2 once each and haven't actually gotten around to watching the 3rd.  I think that should say a lot of my feelings over how the movies have "progressed" and why I don't want to see Lucas messing with the original 3 any more. 

Star Wars: A New Hope is a classic
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes back approaches classic
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi is at least fun

The recent 3?  Lucas making for Lucas not for the fans, not in the same league of quality.  He should remake those while going back to the original attitudes.  Maybe get Straczynski to do them as he at least still seems to realize that special effects are there to support the story not BE the story. 

A New Hope was funny in an understated way.  More adult humour but not vulgar.

Jar Jar Binks tries to be funny in the falling down slapstick style but is just annoying.  Juvenile humour.

[Nemesis]

it is disheartening though.  all these remakes, all these remasters, and there is a ton of books I would love to see done on film.

Stephen R. Donaldson, Pohl, Asimov, the list goes on and on.

Stephen

On that note among more recent authors I'd like to see the Widowmaker Trilogy done as 3 films.  (Mike Reznick I believe).

The Widowmaker for those unfamiliar with the story was a bounty hunter in a Galactic Empire who worked mostly outside the fringes of it and became a legend until struck down by a hideous disease as an "old" man.  He had the money to go into suspended animation and wait for a cure then live out his life in moderate luxury until his fortune was depleted by financial issues.  That is the past.

Book 1 has him fast cloned and trained (illegally) and sent out to earn the money to keep the original suspended and pay for the cure which is close but will be expensive and set up his retirement again. 

Book 2 has a 2nd clone made as the first didn't get enough money, this one however is fast cloned to the physical peak of the Widowmaker and given his full memories, at the physical peak combined with the life time of experience he is perhaps better than the original and unlike the 1st clone he knows his likely fate as an illegal clone (the first did not meet that fate) and is out to survive. 

Book 3 is the return of the original Widowmaker, cured healthy, rich and with a Galaxy full of enemies made by his younger clones.  Enemies he does not know.

Now I'm not an action movie fan but think that this could be a good trilogy especially the 2nd and 3rd as in those the Widowmaker knows he is not immortal and unlike most action heroes he THINKS and uses his brains as much as his brawn and reflexes.

[knightstorm]

Truthfully, I'm not a fan of the books.  There's too many super-jedi.  Why do they need a chosen one, when they have Jedi who have more power in their little finger than Palpatine has in his entire body.  I think ROTJ was my favorite SW film.  As for the prequel trilogy, the problem was that Lucas started believing his own BS, and set out to create some sort of socially relevant high art rather than the pure escapism that the original trilogy represented.  It went over like a lead balloon.  And for the record, I have nothing against Jar Jar since Star Wars is not supposed to be taken seriously.

[Mentat Jon]

Note to George:  When you make a classic work of art and keep messing with it you are bound to destroy it.  Leave it alone.  Create something new.

Agrees 100%