Following the exciting announcement that Raiders of the Lost Ark is now set to debut in IMAX theaters next month, director Steven Spielberg revealed that he might someday work the same mojo on another film from his past:
"I think the only other movie I would ever think about going out on an IMAX screen would be Close Encounters of the Third Kind," Spielberg said in a new interview. "Forty percent of that film was shot in 70 millimeters, so the conversion would look extraordinary if we ever did put it up on an IMAX screen."
Nevertheless, the filmmaker seems confident about the transfer for Raiders -- although he did admit to his initial skepticism. "I didn't know if the 1981 print would stand up to a full IMAX transfer, so I came expecting a sort of grainy, muddy, and overly enlarged representation of the movie I had made [31] years ago," he said. "And I was blown away by the fact that it looked better than the movie I had made [31] years ago... All the shadows in the earlier scenes that we shot in Hawaii [were] always kind of muddy anyway on 35mm, because we couldn’t schlep all of our big arc lights down into this valley. Suddenly, there was definition in the shadows, which I had never seen before. And the shadows weren’t murky and washed out; they were sharp as a tack."
As for future projects, Spielberg added, "I'm going to do an IMAX camera test, [both] a 2 and 3D test for my next movie Robopocalypse, and I haven't decided whether I'm going to use the IMAX cameras. I haven't decided whether it's going to be 2D or 3D yet, but I am in September going to start doing some tests."
Via The New York Times and Yahoo
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