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The battle has begun. On one side are artists and fans, aware of the consequences of converting 2D films to 3D in post-production. It doesn’t work, films like The Last Airbender have proven that. On the other side are studio executives, most of whom see only the possibility of fleecing the moviegoing public. Slap a cheap 3D sticker on your movie and you can charge $20 a seat. It’s a saving grace in a bad economy. It’s a battle that will rage on until the masses stop rewarding poorly converted films. Or until more filmmakers like Zack Snyder say “no.”

MTV News spoke with Snyder this week about the possibility of seeing his crazy-action infused shoot ‘em up Sucker Punch being converted to 3D in post-production. “We didn’t shoot in 3-D,” said the director. “They’ve talked about doing a conversion and there’s been a lot of talk about us doing Sucker Punch in 3-D, but I’m still waiting to see.”

“We’ve looked at a bunch of conversions, so whether or not we have the time to do it right — I’m not going to do it if we don’t have the time to really be meticulous with it,” he said. “It’s such an awesome piece of work and everyone’s worked so hard to make it awesome, so I don’t want to screw it up with bad 3-D.”

Being meticulous and not wanting to rush into 3D is a good thing for Snyder, whose previous work — 300 and Watchmen — has proven to be visually inventive without the use of the gimmick. The final word will probably come from Warner Bros., though they do seem to be one of the more filmmaker friendly big studios, allowing the likes of Christopher Nolan to opt-out of the 3D fad. Then again, that’s Chris Nolan. Whether or not Zack Snyder and his producer wife Deborah will be able to pull the same strings is yet to be seen. Here’s hoping they are able to avoid a bad 3D conversion.

As for Sucker Punch itself, Synder will be bringing some hot 2D footage to San Diego’s Comic-Con at the end of this month. He gave MTV a little tease: We’re coming to Comic-Con to show the first footage from the movie. We’ve designed this awesome footage that kind of sets the tone. It doesn’t really tell the story per se, but it definitely lets you know what we’re up to up there. It’s pretty cool.”

We look forward to checking it out, for sure.