Total Recall to avoid 3D, but what about The Great Gatsby?
Most of Hollywood’s tent-poles for 2012 for be released in 3D such as Joss Whedon’s The Avengers and Marc Webb’s Spider-man reboot. However, a couple films will be avoiding the 3D craze. We’ve already heard that Christopher Nolan won’t be shooting or post-converting The Dark Knight Rises (here), and it looks as though Len Wiseman’s Total Recall remake will be too.
According to What’s playing, Producer Neal Moritz claims that Wiseman’s reasoning is that the cost of 3D is just too expensive for what he plans for the remake of the 1990 classic. “I think the world that Len Wiseman is creating is incredible. It’s a real world, a real future world, where the cities have just gotten so overcrowded that the cities are just built up, up, up, up. It’s just everything I see on the movie, every pre-vis I see on the movie, every conceptual drawing on this movie that I see just makes me more and more excited. We’re playing it like a real world, but there’s all these technological advancements to the real world, and it’s just really, it’s cool. It’s an awesome movie. I’m dying—as a fan of movies, more than anything, it’s a movie that I’m just dying to see,” Moritz said when describing the film.
But while Wiseman may not be utilizing 3D for his film, other directors could be getting closer to using the technology for their film. According to The Hollywood Reporter,  Baz Luhrmann is deciding whether or not to shoot his adaptation of The Great Gatsby in 3D. Luhrmann has work-shopped his upcoming in 3D, but has yet to decide to shoot the film that way. Although, many already consider 3D to be just a “gimmick”, and adds nothing to the overall film. The Great Gatsby in 3D may just be the wrong film to release in 3D. The source material wouldn’t be as exciting as films like James Cameron’s Avatar in 3D, and F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s novel may just be too dramatic for a 3D film.
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