After seeing [the box office take of] Avatar, Lucas told Access Hollywood:
“We’ve been looking for years and years and years of trying to take ‘Star Wars’ and put it in 3-D. But, [the] technology hasn’t been there. We’ve been struggling with it, but I think this will be a new impetus to make that happen.”
We've heard this story before, though it sounds like this time he means it.
There are five movies I'd pay a gazillion dollars to see in 3D, and three of them are Star Wars, Empire and Jedi.*
Read more at Access Hollywood.
*The other two are Back to the Future and Last Crusade. Yes, I liked it better than Raiders. Eat it, film snobs.