{"id":3378,"date":"2011-10-25T04:29:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T01:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2022-04-24T17:49:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T17:49:50","slug":"del-toro-talks-mimic-releases-directors-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/10\/25\/del-toro-talks-mimic-releases-directors-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"del Toro talks Mimic, releases Director’s Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"

del Toro talks about returning to Mimic<\/em><\/a> (feature-film of Lovecraftian monsters in the New York underground system) after 15 years…<\/p>\n

“Almost 15 years on, and del Toro has returned to the film he once regarded as something of a failure [due to interference by the film studio’s suits]. Digging around in Miramax\u2019s film archives, del Toro salvaged the original footage, and returned with a re-edited cut of Mimic<\/em> that trims out the second unit material he so disliked, and reinstated the atmospheric or character-based moments that irked studio heads back in the 90s. Out on Blu-ray on 31st October, the Mimic Director’s Cut<\/a><\/em> is about as close as we\u2019ll ever get to the film del Toro had rattling around in his head, before all those creative differences began…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The DVD of the new cut includes lots of commentary, several ‘making-of’ items including “Reclaiming Mimic”, deleted scenes, and the original storyboard animatics.<\/p>\n

One of the great Lovecraftian stories set in the NYC underground, “Far Below”, is to be reissued in the forthcoming Joshi-edited anthology Spawn of the Green Abyss<\/a><\/em> (Centipede Press, sometime far into 2012). The story can also be found in the completely-unavailable Century’s Best Horror Fiction, Vol. 1<\/em>, and also in the 2003 Wildside reprint of the 1974 book Far Below and Other Horrors from the Pulps<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

del Toro talks about returning to Mimic (feature-film of Lovecraftian monsters in the New York underground system) after 15 years… …<\/p>\n

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