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What could this story have been?

posted 20 years ago by ThePlagueOfLosers
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It was headed for very interesting places up until the second half...what with the abduction of the autistic boy and the subway kidnapping of Sorvino's character. It would have been quite thrilling if the story had developed the creature's motives for doing so, when they could have just killed them.

One possibility that came to my twisted mind was that the insects kidnapped the boy in an attempt to 'communicate' with their creator, - they think he's able to help them with that because of his spoon playing ability. The best road for a weird and scary to go down...but no. According to the movie we got, they were both taken so that they could lock themselves in an abandoned train car and avoid being killed by the mutant bugs. How disappointing that the producers thought we would want to see 'Aliens' ripped off one more time after that promising first half.

I'm curious about whether the script actually had something more to it than that or whether the imagination put into the story disappeared after the first half.

Does anyone know for sure? Is their a script out there, possibly online?

"You probably don't think I'm a very nice guy. Do ya?"
"Boddy I think you're slime."

[–] ThePlagueOfLosers 20 years ago

OK, now sometime between this post and the beginning post I found out what Del Toro's plans were for the second half.

Apparently the insect monsters were going to try to 'mate' with the young autistic boy. Ugh.

Del Toro you twisted f**k.

"You probably don't think I'm a very nice guy. Do ya?"
"Boddy I think you're slime."

[–] Lennox24 20 years ago

It's been a while since I've seen Mimic. But hey SmokeEater, props on the Robocop quote in your sig.

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[–] wewontreadthis 20 years ago

Hey, I worked on the creature effects for mimic. I read the script before they started shooting when I was involved in the building of the bug puppets (I didn't go on set for filming.) From what I could tell, Guillermo was trying to make a much darker film but the Weinstein bros. got a little spooked about the project and tried to make a much more conventional hollywood monster movie out of it. In the script that I read, when the autistic kid's grandfather finds him he's naked, covered in filth and cowering in a corner. The kid then starts communicating with the bugs with spoon clicks. The grandfather looks up to see a ceiling covered in mating bugs who seemingly at the command of the kid, dive down onto gramps and rip him to shreds. The kid is never mentioned in the script after this scene.

So you can see, The origional intention of the movie was to be much darker. Sometimes the director isn't really in a position to do it the way they want to.

-the guy who engineered the exoskeleton of the abdomen of the bug puppets.

[–] do-bye 18 years ago

It's a trip. Part bug, part man.