Star Wars Series to Return to the Big Screen in 3-D Starting Next Year
Posted 03.04.11 by BrentJS
Sci-fi fans will get an early Valentine's Day "love letter" from Fox and Lucasfilm next year. On February 10th, George Lucas' epic six-part space opera will return to the big screen in glorious, eye-popping 3-D. The entire series is in the process of being converted to 3-D and will be released annually, in sequential order, making Star Wars: The Phantom Menace the first to be released. Sensitive to fan criticism of 3-D conversions, the studio released the following statement:
Supervised by Industrial Light & Magic, the meticulous conversion is being done with utmost respect for the source material, and with a keen eye for both technological considerations and artistic intentions.
Now, if they could just trim down Jar Jar Binks' scenes they might have something...