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Some directors just can’t stop futzing with their own work. George Lucas may be the most famous tinkerer, thanks to Special Edition re-releases and subtle edits to his Star Wars films over the past 50 years. But James Cameron is also a proud perfectionist; he’s delivered multiple director’s cuts of films like Terminator 2: Judgment Day<\/em> and The Abyss<\/em>, and in 2023 defended the controversial AI-upscaled 4K transfers of True Lies<\/em> and Titanic<\/em>.<\/p>\n Now, Cameron may have a new version of 1986’s sci-fi horror thriller masterpiece Aliens<\/em> in the works. This one, at least, sounds promising, because Cameron says he’s thinking about \u2014 or threatening to, depending on your point of view \u2014 convert his action-heavy sequel to Alien<\/em> into stereoscopic 3D. Cameron is a famous proponent of 3D movie technology; his Avatar franchise helped usher in a new wave of 3D filmmaking, and he’s created passion-project documentaries like Ghosts of the Abyss<\/em> in 3D.<\/p>\n In an interview with Letterboxd for his new 3D concert film Billie Eilish \u2014 Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)<\/em>, Cameron says Aliens<\/em> in 3D may be next.<\/p>\n Related<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\tTerminator 2’s original ending would have made the sequels impossible<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n “Aliens<\/em> is a creature of its time,” Cameron said. “We are thinking about converting Aliens<\/em> [to 3D], because I know now that the tools are so much better than they were for creating depth maps. We\u2019re probably going to wind up converting Aliens<\/em>, which will be a fun experience. That film seems to be evergreen. People still go back to it a lot.”<\/p>\n Cameron’s done 3D conversions before for films like Titanic<\/em> and Terminator 2<\/em>. He also directed a 3D mini-sequel to the latter in the form of T2-3D: Battle Across Time<\/em>, a discontinued attraction for Universal Studios. So if anyone is in the position to get the most out of a 3D conversion of Aliens<\/em>, it’s Cameron.<\/p>\n When and if Aliens<\/em> 3D will ultimately happen is up to Cameron’s schedule, which is currently occupied with making Avatar 4<\/em> and 5<\/em>, as well as Ghosts of Hiroshima<\/em>, a movie about the U.S. World War II atomic bombing of Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some directors just can’t stop futzing with their own work. George Lucas may be the most famous tinkerer, thanks to Special Edition re-releases and subtle edits to his Star Wars films over the past 50 years. But James Cameron is also a proud perfectionist; he’s delivered multiple director’s cuts of films like Terminator 2: Judgment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7394,7392,1151,3985,7393],"class_list":{"0":"post-7544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-aliens","9":"tag-cameron","10":"tag-james","11":"tag-movie","12":"tag-redo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n