James Cameron in a recent interview with nytimes has shared his thoughts on all things 3D. Shooting in 3D, post converting films into 3D and the current trend of 3D in general, it’s an interesting piece and Cameron tends to know what he’s talking about – so I’d suggest reading the whole article. What I am going to touch on are his thoughts on post conversion.
It’s pretty well known that James Cameron is dead against post converting films into 3D, for example Clash of the Titans… but he seems to be all for releasing Titanic in 3D. Well, he’s expanded on that in the article and explains that that post conversion shouldn’t be an afterthought and if you’re going to do it – do it right. That means no six week rush to meet the box office deadline, what he does say, is that post conversion should be saved for classics Star Wars, Titanic etc.
Nytimes:
So what do you think of George Lucas’s plans to re-release all of his live-action “Star Wars” movies in 3-D?
Cameron
“I’ve been encouraging him to do that for years. He and I went to ShoWest in 2005 and he showed a little bit of converted “Star Wars” and I showed some of my 3-D stuff, and we said, 3-D is coming. We wanted to get exhibitors excited about 3-D so they’d put it in the number of screens that we needed. George has been talking about this for a long time and it’s finally coming to fruition, and I think that’s the true and correct use of the conversion technology, is for movies that are already done and are already beloved films. I want to do it with “Titanic,” maybe I’ll go back to “T2,” I don’t know. Steven Spielberg could do it on some of his films that we’d all, I’m sure, love to see in 3-D. But it has to be done right, and it has to be done with the blessing and the supervision of the filmmaker.”
I couldn’t agree more; in fact it’d be hard pressed to think of anyone who wouldn’t want to see Terminator 2 or Star Wars in 3D? I personally would love the opportunity to revisit Terminator 2 in 3D - they just don’t make movies like that anymore.
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