Having seen Neverar’s color for the entire Tantive sequence, it’s absolutely ideal in my opinion. This isn’t at all a comment about how things should or shouldn’t be, just my own personal taste. Jumping into the extremely green shots just throws me right out of the film. And if that makes me a 1980s ANH revisionist, then so be it. 😃
Should Neverar ever change his mind, I’ll just make sure I hang on to the current version for my own use. 😃
On a similar note, Poita recently said that he thinks the Rancor being bright blue in many Jedi prints could be an issue related to the film development labs. As with the hallway shots here, I’ve got to say I prefer the home video (and onwards) look if what we’re seeing is really representative of the theatrical. But maybe they were variable?
To make myself somewhat inconsistent, I’ll say that I also like the decision to keep the nice blue color of the shots with R2 getting into the pod (another thing that was changed in the home video version, I think).
Dre: I think you’ve got the slightest edge on that Droid Sale shot now, with just a bit more flesh color on the skin. But they’ve become very similar indeed.
I can symphatise with your reasoning. It does appear to have been delibirate though, as almost all the shots with Leia in the corridor have a strong green tint:
Just for comparison, here’s a scan of a 70mm frame of that same shot from jedi1.net:
It appears in the Tech scans, but also -1 LPP. I think MikveV once said, that some of the color choices in 1977 are a bit different by to today’s standards. Anyway for 4K77 I’m sticking with what’s on the print, and a Technicolor color palette, and I will hopefully get a chance to verify some of these points of discussion relatively soon during that screening.
Either way, I suspect NeverarGreat’s regrade will be absolutely stunning, and very representative of the original color grading.