Discussion DEADLINE: No More ‘Star Wars’ 3D Prequel Releases; Lucasfilm Passes To Focus On New Trilogy

http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/exc...ses-lucasfilm-passes-to-focus-on-new-trilogy/

This is horrible news, are Disney already throwing prequel fans under the bus to focus on Episode 7? Way to generate bad will with the fans who have kept Star Wars going.

Smells of b.s.

Disagree. I've been impressed with how they are handling Star Wars.

I was immediately impressed with hiring Michael Arndt. While I'm not the biggest JJ fan I see why they got him as well. And the fact that they're not wasting time, resources, and energy on releasing gimmicky 3D rereleases of mediocre movies, and instead putting it all into the ST.... is good news. TPM 3D did OK i guess, for what it was, and they could very easily just wring out extra dollars on the PT. the fact that they're passing up on guaranteed money makes them look better in my eyes not worse.

I think this is good, actually. I never saw a reason, other than money, for the first six to be post-converted to 3D when they were never meant for the format. Now, I suspect this means we will NOT be seeing Episode 7 in 3D, which is fine by me.

No I suspect this decision has a lot more to do with profit vs. time invested. 3-D rereleases of older films have been dying a steady death over the last 2 years. Monsters Inc. performed very poorly over the Holidays, and even Titanic 3-D barely mustered more than the TPM release. There's simply no money in this endeavor and ILMs time would be better spent on the Sequel Trilogy.

This also means no OT in 3-D.

The article only says the prequels will be, not the originals.

That's dissapointing, but at least the older movies are still gonna be rereleased if this is true. I've always wanted to watch the old movies in a theater. Unfortunately I was too young to experience this. They better not cancel the OT 3D releases! It's the only way people my age can view the old ones in the theater!

Interesting that they say Prequels. So no OT?

What an odd choice. These 3D releases seemed like the perfect buildup.

I thought Ep. 2 was almost finished

oh well

Oh well. I guess it gives Lucasfilm more time to focus on the Sequel trilogy because honestly Sequel Trilogy is more important than 3D rereleases *sorry guys who were anticipating this*

Personally I saw this as the latest desperate attempt to fleece the fans before Disney took over. I hope that soon enough the release the OT untouched and only digitally remastered. On DVD not the cinema. Okay both.

Seriously, if you don't think this applies to the OT as well you are being naive. The PT/OT Star Wars films in 3-D are dead. Heck they hadn't even done the conversions of the OT and AOTC and ROTS were only just underway.

Yancy

I honestly couldn't see enough people paying to see that again, in relation to the costs of putting it out at the cinema again.

I don't care much about not getting 3D releases, but I was excited to go see the films in the theater again, this time with my kids. It's okay, hopefully there will be other opportunities.

If we get a 2015 release for Ep. VII we're sitting somewhere between 823 and 1,060 days until the release...
(May 1 and Dec 24 endpoints since it wouldn't be released outside those dates)

I am more concerned with this line from the article

Would you really rather they split their resources for this than to focus on the ST? The PT is everywhere. You can watch it whenever you want. Is the 3D conversion really more important than Ep. 7?

I realize the article stated Eps II & III but, honestly, I hope the can all of the 3D conversions.

Oh Sithspit, a shame as it could of been good promotion leading to Ep VII. On the other hand there will be a craving for the new material on the big screen with less releases.

So that was the prequels big return then, now one prematurely with the force.

I mean I'm not really into the PT.,but hopefully this isn't an attempt to bury them, with a view to have them re-done further down the line. I mean they are even re-booting re-boots these days. Spiderman anyone?

Journalism is dead. This is just a lame misuse of the term by a lazy hack of a writer.

More of this reboot nonsense? It's just miswording, if not they mean rebooting by adding onto the trilogy which hasn't been added on for 10 years nearly.

I had the same thought when I read this article. Man, people are lazy (the irony of this being typed from work is not lost on me).

Well this sucks. Not really for me (although I would have loved to see the films in theaters again) but more for my son. He's have been anticipating these since I promised to take him. Now I have to tell him that they won't be out. I'm not looking forward to that at all.

Totally agree.

Had a feeling it wouldn't take long till fans saw that "rebooting the franchise" line. CUE THE MASS PANIC