Mars has been known as "The Red Planet," and has been notable to us humans because of its reddish color, for a L-O-N-G time, and was described as such even in 1953. Heck, the very voiceover at the beginning of the movie intones, "Its rocks have absorbed almost all oxygen from its air, turning...
I agree, Josh. It's obvious that whoever it is at Paramount signing off on their growing number of flawed releases doesn't know what in the heck they're doing. It really is unfortunate.
The 4K streaming version of WotW is interesting, but I find the color grading on the Criterion Blu-ray to be much more pleasing and, I would bet, closer to how the film was intended to look. I'm happy to have both, however. :) I wonder how this physical 4K release will differ, if at all.