DGHCaretaker
Rohan
Apr 28, 6:03am
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Well this is interesting. I thought I should work a little harder for my answer than just wondering, so I did a quick search. It looks like the green tint was an issue around 2011 with the Extended Edition Blu-ray. But in 2020, the question was asked on Reddit of course, "Will the 4k release of The Fellowship have that sickly green tint?" Back in 2011, the response from Jackson about the controversy was evasive and never allowed himself to be pinned down on whether it was intentional, but advocates against the color grading were made to feel like today's conspiracy theorists with all their proof and deep analysis showing it was real. Basically they were told to get a life. But the answer on Reddit in 2020 about the 4K release summarized Bill Hunt, a well-known and -respected owner of The Digital Bits, with this:
I just watched an interview with Bill Hunt, founder of The Digital Bits, who have some very exclusive inside info on the project. He said that Wingnut Films have been working on the release for more than 1 year. He also said that the Blu-Ray edition released by Warner was taken from a 2k HD master that they created when the films were completed in 2003. The technology at the time wasn't so advanced, so they had a little hard time to convert that material to the 1080p format. That's why the movie has such a cold, green tone. For this 4k release, however, rather than going back to that material, Wignut Films and Weta have gone back to the original 35mm camera negative and the original film-printed VFX shots and scanned it all in native 4k. Besides that, they've done a brand new color grade from the ground up. It all happened under Peter Jackson's and Peter Doyle's (the original colorist for the films) supervision". Hunt also said that with the new technologies and HDR, the result can very likely be even better than the theatrical version. It sounds promising.
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