Even Steven Spielberg did it with his sci-fi masterpiece E.T. — and he says he’s learned his lesson.
When E.T. was re-released, I actually digitized five shots where E.T. went from being a puppet to a digital puppet.
What’s done is done, and I’ll never go back into another movie I made, or have control over, to enhance or change it.
There was a period a couple decades ago where filmmakers went mad with power, going back to edit and “improve” on their movies with digital enhancements.