Christopher Nolan has been talking about 3D, and his hesitancy to use it “The question of 3-D is a very straightforward one. I never meet anybody who actually likes the format, and it’s always a source of great concern to me when you’re charging a higher price for something that nobody seems to really say they have any great love for." He continued, “It’s up to the audience to tell us how they want to watch the movies. More people go see these films in 2-D, and so it’s difficult data to interpret. And I certainly don’t want to shoot in a format just to charge people a higher ticket price.”
That said Nolan has been supportive of Baz Luhrmann and his 3D version of The Great Gatsby "It looks like a wild trip where “you’re going to be inside Baz’s head.” While it might have been right for Baz, it just wasn't right for The Dark Knight Rises, “I’m fascinated to see what he’s going to do, but I don’t want any filmmaker to be pushed into doing something they don’t want to. 3-D did not feel like the right thing for this movie.”
So, maybe the world will have to wait to see what Nolan is going to do with 3D, if anything at all. No doubt, if he does do something, it may be another “Scorsese doing 3D moment.”
Without getting into it too much, Nolan has put forward a very important point. 3D has been plagued with problems and has yet to convince anybody that it is some that really benefits the movie. As impressive as Avatar and even Hugo were in 3D, many have said, myself included, that they enjoyed the 2D version just as much, if not more!
