A crew from NHNZ has been commissioned by the Discovery Channel to film a one-hour documentary on the squid, believed to be the biggest invertebrate found.
Te Papa has granted the production company special access to shoot the documentary, a major coup for the Dunedin-based production company, executive producer Andrew Waterworth (57) said.
But the exclusive does have its drawbacks.
"We got the tapes the other day, and even the tapes smell like squid," he said.
The 4.25m female was found by a fishing crew on the San Aspiring in the Ross Sea, in the Antarctic, in February 2007.
The squid eclipsed by 195kg the size of the last specimen found in 2003.
The latest specimen was frozen and taken to a Te Papa laboratory in Wellington, where a team of international scientists was researching the squid.
Before the autopsy, the Te Papa researchers had to build a massive tank to accommodate the de-thawing squid, before hundreds of litres of the preserving agent formalin was added.
On April 30, a webcam which featured the dissection of the squid became the ninth most popular site in the United States, with hundreds of television stations reporting the story.
Interest in the squid did not stop there, with the BBC reporting it was the most popular story that week.
It also featured on the front page of the New York Times.
Despite the popularity of the squid, documentary producer Malcolm Hall said "I am all squidded out".
"The other day it took me three washes to get the smell out of my clothing and it was one of the worst smells I think I have ever experienced."
At first, the water in which the squid was housed was clear, but then ink began to ooze out of its "jelly-like" body, Mr Hall said.
Based at a laboratory in Tory St, filming for the documentary was going to get very interesting next month, when the squid was likely to be taken to its new home in Te Papa, he said.
"We are about quarter of a mile from Te Papa, so the plan is to put it in a new tank without any liquid and transport it through the city to the museum, where it will be inserted through a window on the first floor and then filled with a preserving agent.
"It should be a great thing to film," he said.
In addition to the recent footage, the documentary will also feature video shot by the fishing crew, and additional footage used in a previous NHNZ documentary series, Animal Faceoff.
The final episode of Animal Faceoff featured a two-hour showdown between a colossal squid and a sperm whale.
For that show, a rubber replica of a colossal squid was made out of rubber and towed behind a boat and is now a tourist attraction in its own right at the Portobello aquarium.
