WIRED.com: Movies We’d Like to See Get a 3-D Upgrade

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As James Cameron’s billion-dollar baby Avatar rolls toward the top of the all-time box office charts, Hollywood is looking to retool movies like Star Wars, “retrofitting” them into 3-D. From a bean-counter’s perspective, it’s an obvious move to milk fan-favorite franchises with secondary theatrical runs at the higher ticket prices 3-D showings typically command.

Whether such cinematic re-engineering will result in the same sort of negative reactions as did film colorization remains to be seen. (Orson Welles reportedly did not want his black-and-white masterpiece Citizen Kane colorized, saying: “Don’t let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons.”) With the continuing success of Cameron’s sci-fi epic and the growing push to add 3-D capabilities to television sets, it seems like just a matter of time before we witness a 3-D renaissance. Still, some classics might be better suited to such an upgrade than others. Here are a handful of films we’d like to see in 3-D.

The Fifth Element
If this woman belting out the diva anthem doesn’t bring about 3-D fantasies for Luc Besson’s classic, maybe recalling the hysterical exploits of Korben Dallas and Leeloo “Dallas Multipass” will. Picture it: A scantily clad Milla Jovovich swan-dives off a skyscraper in a fantastically realized future. Ruby Rhod and Dallas battle a bevy of shape-shifters. Luke Perry. This has the goods to be experienced in multiple dimensions. If converted to 3-D, when Jovovich jumps, you’ll really fall with her. –Scott Pierce

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