The makers of The Last Airbender and Green Hornet are scrambling to convert their films to into inferior post-production 3-D. When will this 3-D monster stop?
Two films that were never intended to be 3-D productions — or else they would have shot with 3D cameras — are frantically trying to stick the 3-D tag on the end of their titles. Variety confirmed that M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender would be going 3-D. Meanwhile, the movie’s producer Frank Marshall has been twittering about the filmmakers’ 3-D experiments this entire time.
Looking at 3-D test… Looking at 3-D for various projects, I think it’s here to stay, but not right for all movies… So far, feels like it’s better to shoot in 3-D rather than convert….
The Green Hornet, which is also moving its release date to January 14th, 2011 — in order to avoid Tron Legacy’s shadow no doubt — also announced that it, too, would be going 3-D. This is hot on the heels of the leak that Sony just now realized that the actor they cast years ago, Seth Rogen, looks nothing like The Green Hornet.
https://gizmodo.com/sony-just-realized-seth-rogen-looks-nothing-like-green-5517628
Sony vice-chairman Jeff Blake stated to THR that, “”He [director Michel Gondry] has always kind of shot it having the possiblity of having it in 3D in mind,” Bruer said. “It’s got a lot of depth and amazing visuals.”
On the positive side, it could be pretty amazing to see what a director like Gondry does with a 3D medium. But all in all, it really feels like the studios will do just about anything to get that 4 extra dollars at the box office these days, it’s really a shame.
At least one film-maker is sticking to his principles. The Dark Knight’s cinematographer, Pfister, explained to Cinematical that making the next Batman film 3D isn’t that big of a priority. After all, by the time Batman 3 comes out, the fad may actually be over.
