I think it’s just nice to keep it all of a similar quality. Add all the extra missing sound add the extra footage where I can. Get the colors right or as close as I can. Mix sources where needed.

So far I am about 1 hour 10 minutes through a first Color pass after 3 days. If this had been Enter the Dragon which I put on hold for the moment although I could finish that in a day or 2 probably you could add 12 months on and off to that from start point on that film I love it but I am sick of it.

It is actually a sigh of relief to work on something that is not a complete nightmare. It’s a very gorgeous looking film too.

I am going to steer quite clear of adding any personal revisionist strokes but I might add a simple few things. I plan to replace the dodgy looking planet when the pyramid ship is leaving Abydos orbit. There will be a lot of revisionist edits but all we be done in good taste and nothing too radical. The deleted footage is radical enough. Re-arrangements and simple edits. No fancy CGI at all.

A few interesting discoveries I have made whilst making my way through the footage.

When they are in Nagada city at night and they look up again at the Eye of Ra gong thing it is the same shot as in the day shown previously and not at night.

When Kurt Russell is knocked un-concious when we cut to him out for the count he is lying on a sandy floor not the marble type floor in the pyramid hall chamber.

When one of the Guards shoots at Kurt Russell and James Spader escaping when rescued from outside the pyramid by the people of Abydos. One shot is of a Guard shooting inside the pyramid entrance hall which is meant to appear much later in the film. There also happens to be a deleted scene of the correct guard shooting outside the pyramid in the desert so how they got mixed up I don’t know?