Del Toro Explains that the new Blu-ray of MIMIC is “Closer to What the film Should Be”

Beside being an insanely busy man, Guillermo Del Toro is someone who clearly knows what he wants.  He is a director who has a very specific vision and sets out to create that world and expose its many little details.  The only time (at least admittedly from the man himself) that the Spanish visionary has compromised his own ideas on a film was on the 1997 flop, Mimic. With a budget of over $30 million and breaking in at only #4 at the box-office on its opening weekend with $7.8 million, Mimic was a commercial and creative flop for the director.  The film is notorious for the fact that the studios involved intervened too much into the film and thus failed to convey what Del Toro had intended.  Well, with the September 27th release date of  “The Director’s Cut” of the film approaching, the director spoke candidly about the film and how he didn’t want the recently halted production of At the Mountains of Madness to turn into another Mimic.

Speaking with New York Magazine Vulture, the director spoke about a lot of his current projects as well as the upcoming Mimic disc.  Here’s what he had to say about the 1997 film.

Yes. It (Mimic) taught me a very important thing, which I didn’t know before, and it’s the word no. I think I was able to say no very strongly and very purposefully to many of the worst attempts at conforming Mimic, but I lost a lot of battles in that movie and I don’t blame anybody but myself for that. Now we have restored the movie on Blu-ray and DVD to a form closer to what I thought it should be. It’s not exactly the movie I wanted to make, but it’s closer.

In a previous question, Toro addresses similar issues that came about with At The Mountains of Madness.

That was a very painful experience. The cancellation came at a point where we were ready to start production. We story-boarded the key sequences in the movie, we designed all the creatures, we started doing tests on the creatures. We had every indication that the movie was going to roll. And it was the fact that I wouldn’t do it without a contractual R rating that took it down. I think, ultimately, I could have said yes to a PG-13, but I didn’t want to. I didn’t want to on paper. I believe the movie would have been a graphically violent movie and we may have been ended with a PG-13. I didn’t want to compromise from the get-go, you know?

 

Clearly learning from past mistakes, the director seems to have now realized to not compromise his vision for future projects.  Speaking of future projects, to read what he has to say about the upcoming Pacific Rim and Beauty and The Beast, you can read the entire interview by clicking HERE.

If you are as excited as me about the upcoming Blu-ray of Mimic, you are about to get even more excited after hearing this news. Right now, Amazon has the pre-order of the disc for only . . . .  $9.99 !!!! I might be a little excited if it isn’t already evident.  Click the link below to guarantee that price went it hits your mailbox and store shelves on September 27.