It's official: the Star Wars saga is going 3D.

Things will kick off with everybody's favorite chapter in the Star Wars saga, The Phantom Menace, which will be ready to hit theaters in at some point in 2012, with the other five films debuting in subsequent years. According to reports, converting each film to 3D will take approximately a year, with George Lucas overseeing the process himself.

"Getting good results on a stereo conversion is a matter of taking the time and getting it right," John Knoll, Visual Effects Supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic, told StarWars.com. "It takes a critical and artistic eye along with an incredible attention to detail to be successful. It is not something that you can rush if you want to expect good results. For Star Wars we will take our time, applying everything we know both aesthetically and technically to bring audiences a fantastic new Star Wars experience."

For original trilogy fans, this will be the second time the movies have been digitally remastered in some way, as the first three films in the series were re-released with new CGI footage back in 1997 to mark the series' 20th anniversary. The film included enhanced versions of deleted scenes such as this one with a human playing Jabba the Hutt.

It's exciting news for Star Wars fans—especially those who aren't old enough to have seen the original films in theaters—but just how good the 30-year old movies will look on a huge 3D screen remains to be seen. History is not on their side.

The question is: will you go?