George Lucas has officially crossed over to the dark side.
Who is to blame for this horrific transition? James Cameron.
Ever since "Avatar" came out in theaters on Dec. 18th, 2009, the 3-D mania has been out of control. Suddenly, everything is being filmed in 3-D, and movie theaters have piles of those goofy glasses just waiting for the films to hit the big screens.
And guess what movie is supposed to make its debut in 2012? "Star Wars"- all of them.
Lucas, director of the "Star Wars" movies tells Access Hollywood in an interview he has "never been a big fan of 3-D, but that movie definitely improves in [the field of] 3-D." Upon seeing "Avatar," Lucas decided that Star Wars HAD to be shown in 3-D. What Lucas is forgetting is that the Star Wars phenomenon is dead, annoying, and overdone at this point, and the general public agrees, too.
Ben Fritz of the Los Angeles Times talks in an article of this possibility of the saga meeting the 21st century and its 3-D technology. This article, however, lacks any originality and depth. Almost all of the information was taken from the interviews Access Hollywood had with Lucas, and you would think a newspaper in L.A. would be able to score an interview with Lucas.
The rest of the story was obtained from a press release that The Times was able to get before it was released to the audience. Why would a newspaper run a story that the reported did absolutely no reporting for himself? Were they so completely out of material that they had to get another newspaper's story, use quotes from someone else's interview, and put it in their own? If you didn't do the work yourself, don't run it.
It will be interesting to see if Lucas actually does go through with his plans. Something tells me it won't be as awesome as he thinks it's going to be.
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