George Lucas’ ‘Star Wars’ trilogy – the original one, not the prequel trilogy – has been remastered and re-released almost as often as Slade’s ‘Merry Christmas Everybody’ and now Lucas wants to release it again – this time in 3D.

Totalfilm.com report that Lucas has apparently spent several years looking for the best 3D conversion method, but up until now technology has scuppered any plans to remaster the film in 3D. However, with the release of James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ Lucas believes his vision for Star Wars could now become reality.

“I can appreciate what he [Cameron] went through to do it,” said Lucas. “[I'm] happy it’s so successful, and worked very well in 3D. [I] haven’t been a big fan of 3D, but that movie definitely improves in 3D.”

“We’ve been looking for years and years and years of trying to take Star Wars and put it in 3D. 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.”

While the thought of Luke, Han, Chewie, Obi-Wan and the rest might sound exciting; equally the thought of Jar-Jar Binks in 3D, however, doesn’t.