Certainly these 3D re-releases will become very big business over the next decade or so with James Cameron’s Titanic looking great in 3D when we saw a few scenes a few months ago, and so George Lucas’s saga returns to cinemas with a new dimension.
This new poster isn’t exactly up there with the design classics of Drew Struzan but it does the decent thing and omit Jar-Jar Binks and Anakin Skywalker from proceedings – perhaps Lucas could have gone back to the Wacom tablet and erased them from the actual film.
They did miss out on a new tagline though – ‘Pod race IN YOUR FACE’ or ‘Jar-Jar now has DEPTH!‘ but whatever you think of The Phantom Menace there is a nice phrase on the poster which bodes very well for the next few years – ‘and select 2D theatres’.
Here’s the poster,
Oh lord, does this mean we have to “suffer” through a 14-min race sequence in 3D? Whyyyyyy? *headdesk*
Then on the other hand 3D Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor and “Duel of the Fates”.
Going to be fantastic, George keeps doing us proud.
No thank you.