[Movies] J.J. Abrams Says He Had Concerns About Converting Star Trek Into Darkness Into 3D
Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 12.16.2012
It's going well though...
J.J. Abrams says that he was very hesitant to post-convert Star Trek Into Darkness into 3D, but has come around. Abrams revealed in a press conference (via Digital Spy) that he only began converting the film into 3D due to studio pressure, but added that they were enjoying the process now that they've begun.
"3D was something that, frankly, I was not a big fan of to begin with," he said. "Essentially in order for us to make this movie, the studio said 'You gotta do this in 3D'. So we said, well, we can do a 2D version that we love that can also be converted to 3D. And the truth is that I've actually been having a lot of fun with it. We have an amazing amount of creative freedom, doing the 3D in post[-production]. This is kind of the myth, that it only looks good if you shoot the movie in 3D, which is completely not true. In fact, we're doing a bunch of things with the 3D in this movie that have not been done before, using techniques that have not been seen. All the exterior shots, including the shots in space, are all either shot or rendered in IMAX format. It's the first time a movie has been shot in IMAX to this scale and converted to 3D."
