# George Lucas to make 3D Star Wars movies -- rears back, strikes dead horse once more

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 18, 2005, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-lucas-to-make-3d-star-wars-movies-rears-back-strikes-dead-horse-once-more/295159 "2005-03-18T17:31:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-lucas-to-make-3d-star-wars-movies-rears-back-strikes-dead-horse-once-more/295159/1 "2005-03-18T17:31:27Z")

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[Who would have possibly thought he could spend 30+ years mining one franchise so completely?](http://chud.com/news/1962)

Now don’t get me wrong, it **might** be cool. But is this something that people were really clamoring for?

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-lucas-to-make-3d-star-wars-movies-rears-back-strikes-dead-horse-once-more/295159/2 "2005-03-18T17:41:56Z")

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At least it’ll keep too busy to make episodes 7-9 until 2013.

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**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-lucas-to-make-3d-star-wars-movies-rears-back-strikes-dead-horse-once-more/295159/3 "2005-03-18T17:49:56Z")

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Too bad he can’t go back and make the characters 3 dimensional.

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-lucas-to-make-3d-star-wars-movies-rears-back-strikes-dead-horse-once-more/295159/4 "2005-03-18T17:57:17Z")

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[Here](http://www.worldenteractive.com/LUCAS%20CAMERON.htm)’s a much more detailed report on the ShoWest presentation.