The good people at marketsaw.blogspot.com think so! Wait until you find out who is rumored to direct?
This from Marketsaw:
"Here is a strong rumor that should wet your appetites! (or sour them if you have had too much of the franchise). I have been hearing rumblings... extremely quiet at first, but now heating up significantly and from a trusted source - that George Lucas is preparing to unleash another STAR WARS trilogy upon us, this time in stereoscopic 3D. This is NOT the TV series, these are brand spankin' new 3D STAR WARS movies."
Music to my ears! If this becomes true then I really hope Lucas goes with a current story featuring Luke, Han, Leia, Chewey and the rest of the gang. I want to see the Grand Admiral Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn. That would be epic to watch up on the big screen in 3-D.
More from Marketsaw:
"What an interesting competitive box office landscape that would make over the next 6 to 10 years! James Cameron's AVATAR world vs. George Lucas' STAR WARS world. I could see Lucas getting a little jealous over a successful launch of AVATAR - jealous because it is a fully articulated universe, like his. And if he doesn't act on it - his franchise may well be relegated to a back seat as potentially the records will start falling to Pandora. Heck STAR WARS is still not 3D yet and what better way to try to maintain a lock on bragging rights than to launch into three more in native stereoscopic 3D."
So it sounds like Lucas is waiting to see how well James Cameron's Avatar will do at the box office before he starts running with this new idea. That's fair, but why does Lucas give a damn. George knows that to rekindle the Star Wars universe back into good standing's with the franchise's long term fans he has to deliver something good. Not something so so, and the whole movie cannot be a special effect.
Anyone want to guess who is rumored to be directing? Only Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola are rumored to be taking the director's chair with Lucas producing. I have said this many times before, stick with what your good at. Lucas is a writer and a producer NOT A DIRECTOR!!! I would love to see how a fresh Star Wars Trilogy would play out in the hands of Steven Spielberg. One word, Epic!
UPDATE: AICN sent an email asking the folks at Lucasfilms to confirm the new plans for a new 3-D Star Wars trilogy. Lucasfilm sent back a flat confirmation that they are not working on re releasing the original trilogy in a 3-D format or working on a new trilogy. This coming from the same people that denied that Ewan Mcgregor was in fact cast as Obi-Wan. I must have been out of my mind to think Lucas wanted to right a few of his wrongs out there in movie land. Instead it appears that he doesnt care what the fans want. Just what he wants, turning him into the Hollywood mogul/tyrant that he once hated and vowing to never become. At least there is hope. Star Trek and Avatar will keep reaching deeper in the pockets of George Lucas hopefully waking him up enough so that he can see the true nature of the force.
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