askmonroville — 9 years ago(January 18, 2017 11:22 AM)

According to the Trivia section, the original edit was akin to MEMENTO and IRREVERSIBLE, with it starting with the end and working towards the beginning.
Has anyone seen this edit with the original Joe Jackson music? This sounds like something up fanedit.org's alley.
Here is an interesting review with a bit more info:
http://www.thebetamaxrundown.com/mikes-murder-1984/
Its hard to talk about Mikes Murder without first talking about what happened to Mikes Murder after it was completed. Apparently director James Bridges wrote Mikes Murder as a non-linear mystery told with many flashbacks, the crux of which was a very graphic murder scene. After a disastrous screening, Warner panicked, Bridges panicked, and Mikes Murder was given a major overhaul. The violent murder was cut, things were made more linear, and Joe Jackson got the boot. Well touch a bit more on this later. The film that eventually got released to the theaters and on home video, although flawed and not the directors original vision, still managed to be a quiet, linear, murder mystery that at times borders on 70s-style character study.
Jack Larson, the movies associate producer and Bridgess lover, died this year at 87. He supposedly had the only original full-length cut and said in 2004 that it would make spectacular DVD release. Im sure you must be at least curious. Still an entrancing movie nonetheless.