Lucasfilm ‘Postponing’ Remaining 3D ‘Star Wars’ Prequel Re-Releases

Hooray! Wait, I shouldn’t be cheering? A few years back, before we had any idea there would be more Star Wars movies on the way, the biggest news was that Lucasfilm and George Lucas would be converting the entire saga (all six movies) into 3D. The original re-release pattern was supposed to be one every year for six years, starting with Episode I: The Phantom Menace in February of 2012. While that first film got a modest 3D re-release and did fairly well at the box office ($102M worldwide), Lucasfilm has cancelled the other 3D re-releases to focus solely on “rebooting the franchise” with Bad Robot’s J.J. Abrams at the helm. The news was reported by Deadline, where they say that “Lucasfilm’s promotional partners” are telling them that the studio is cancelling the prequel 3D re-releases to “focus only on ‘rebooting the franchise’ with three new Star Wars films.” Sounds good …