Movie City Indie

« Sundance songline dreamtime: Dargis begets | Main | Prelude to a rave: Mick LaSalle's New World »

January 19, 2006

Masters of Horror and Miike's stillborn Imprint

Where Showtime's "Masters of Horror" series let Joe Dante work blunt political burlesque with Homecoming, whose final cut would lead them to finally dropping an episode scheduled for January 27? Why, Miike-san, of course. Reports Dave Kehr in the NY Times, Imprint, directed by Takashi Miike on his Japanese stomping grounds rather than in Vancouver, the twelfth of 13 episodes was thrown out. Why? Dead fetuses. Showtime's scrubbed it from its site, and roduction company IDT Entertainment, contrary to the Times report, has also deleted the trailer from its own site. "I think it's amazing, but it's even hard for me to watch," said Mick Garris... creator and executive producer... "It's definitely the most disturbing film I've ever seen." It will now be released directly to the DVD market through IDT's home video subsidiary, Anchor Bay Entertainment, along with the rest of the episodes in the series... "Definitely, at the script stage we made comments about the aborted fetuses," Mr. Garris said. "We made it clear that we were going on American pay cable television, and even though there wasn't as much control over content, there still were concerns. And then when we got the first cut, it was very, very strong stuff, and we made some suggestions on what might help before we showed it to Showtime. The Japanese made the changes they were comfortable with, and eventually we arrived at a film that he was happy with and we're all happy with. But Showtime felt it was not something they were comfortable putting out on the airwaves... It is what it is... It really was, let's try and not hack this up."

Posted by pride at January 19, 2006 12:17 PM

Comments

Posted by: superbario at April 7, 2006 05:22 PM

Post a comment