I’ve been debating whether or not to apply a new color grade to this edit, whether it be a subtle correction or a more extreme transformation. I’m leaning towards a more subtle correction, since there are aspects of the original color that simply don’t make me happy. In particular, the warm tones are rather muted which leaves Chewbacca and C-3PO looking almost green in many shots, and there’s an unpleasant blue push to the whole film that tends to ‘lobsterize’ faces. Finally, the red is a bit overdone which leads to some detail loss in heavily red shots, so taking all of this together I’ve tried to fix these issues:
Perhaps on the alternate version of the film I will do a more extreme grading.