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Maybe the Wayne estate will think differently once they see the results of the 3-D Film Archives efforts with Martin and Lewis' "Money From Home" - which they're working on from 4K scans of 72 reels of 3-D negative provided by the Paramount Film Archive (hardly the sub-optimal materials used for "Prison Girls"); this one analogous to the combined efforts of Warner Motion Picture Imaging department and Dave Strohmaier and company for Warner Film Archives' release of "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm".
With respect, I don't believe the issue here is with the Wayne estate. The Wayne estate authorized and paid for the creation of a 3D DCP, which is available for theatrical bookings. I've seen it and it looks fantastic.
The issue is that the Wayne estate has licensed the home video rights for Hondo to Paramount, and that Paramount is uninterested in releasing the 3D version on disc. Because the Wayne estate has licensed the home video rights to Paramount, the Wayne estate is not able to offer 3D home video rights to another company, no matter how interested one might be. And the terms of the contract with Paramount don't allow Paramount to sublicense any of their licensed Wayne titles to a third party distributor, so Paramount can't offer it to a boutique label (if they'd even want to).
Nothing here will change, unfortunately, unless Paramount changes its mind (unlikely given that the studio no longer supports 3D home video releases at all), or unless their license for Hondo expires and the Wayne estate chooses to seek out another release partner.