It makes me wonder how many other films originally had color timing completely different from every release we've ever seen.

As I pointed out before, I've seen a cam-rip of a Derann print of The Neverending Story which has an almost teal/orange balance, similar to the reviled U.S. Blu-ray (though obviously looking better due to being photochemical and not digitally manipulated).

Also, that ED2 color estimate may not look right on some monitors, I may make a new approximation on a different monitor some time. The point is, there was a lot of blue and green, virtually no sign of oranges, purples or magentas, very little red apart from the blood, Ash looked a dulled yellow-bronze, and the medieval coda was green-tinged and almost totally monochromatic.

Part of it could possibly be chalked up to crummy lab work, but I don't think that's the whole reason.

Actually, the colors in this publicity still look quite similar to what I saw last night (though not as photochemically accentuated). In a way, it almost looked like 2-strip Technicolor/Cinecolor.