Solo: A Colorful 80's Version (* on hiatus *)

Following the first release of my regraded ROTS, I’m looking to start work on a regrade of Solo.

Of the new Disney era SW films, I’ve been very happy with the unique cinematography each one has had and the color grades that accompanied them. But while I do like the style Solo’s look is, I just don’t think it fits the tone of the movie so well.

My plans is to make this a mix of the vividness of recent films like Mad Max Fury Road and Guardians of the Galaxy while keeping the colors and feel to that of the original trilogy and Indiana Jones movies.

I was inspired to make this after watching a recent regrade of Solo which was shared over at the fanedit forums and showed me just how different the film could be with a drastic grading change.

I’m excited to start work on this because honestly at least this film is a lot more palatable to watch than the prequels.

Just thought I’d get this going now and if any of you have any thoughts or suggestions I’m totally open.

schorman13 said:

I’ve capped the theatrical subtitles from the streaming version of Solo. For whatever reason, they’re not on the UHD or Blu Ray. Let me know if you’d like links.

is the Netflix stream in UHD?

Any chance you have the theatrical-styled subs in PGS format? Maybe even the theatrical-styled ones but in white instead of yellow?

I was actually kind of hoping someone would eventually make OT-mimicking forced subs for the PT, ST, and standalones. I like consistency. And I really, really hate the yellow theatrical subs for Solo, but the generic PGS ones on the BR are just as bad…

Jackpumpkinhead said:

I have an After Effcts project file that mimics the OT subtitles you can use if you would like.

Wow that’s great I’m sure a TON of editors would appreciate this, If i were you I would send it to Adywan himself.

I would definitely love to put in burnt-in subtitles that are the style of the unaltered OT as that would be fitting for the goal of this project.

I’ll see about posting preliminary screencaps soon!

Definitely interested in this edit btw. Exactly what I wanted in the first place with this movie.

So do I 😃

I don’t know about going too bright with the palette but I would dearly love to see a version that hews more to the look of the OT; something more approximating a normal realistic saturation.

Oh, and a little film grain wouldn’t go astray. 😃

I’m ripping the 4K Blu-ray as I post this, and will start color grading tomorrow. I was originally just going to work from the standard Blu-ray, but I’ve found for certain sections there just isn’t enough color data to work with in the non-HDR 8 bit source so I need the higher quality HDR 10 bit source. Of course this means I will be able to release a native 4K version as well, although I still don’t have the necessary monitoring equipment for accurate HDR color grading so it’ll just have to be SDR releases for now.

As soon as I can, I’ll post a preview clip on MEGA. I haven’t been this excited to work on a fan project since I started on the prequels, which yes I will still be releasing ROTS soon if anyone’s wondering.

Super excited!

Got a clip rendering right now, that’ll I post tomorrow! I haven’t perfected converting the HDR10 to Rec709 yet as the highlights are still clipping a bit, but I’ll work to improve that in the next itteration.

Basically all I did in this go was do the color space conversion, raise the saturation, and apply one of my filmized LUT’s from my PT project. I still think it looks pretty good for a first attempt.

JEDIT: I revised the color space conversion so the highlights don’t clip anymore although they maybe could be a tad brighter.

Here’s the first preview clip: https://mega.nz/#!7PpDgaZC!rzzdz1VmvjNpOUATAqd_6XzQ7gWng37Hdl3hN--lus0

Jackpumpkinhead said:

Getting an error with that key

Okay, I don’t know why it did that, I instead included the full unprotected link this time.