Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
Director: David Gregory · Writer: David Gregory
The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a novel by H. G. Wells—, which was brought to the big screen in 1996. How director Richard Stanley spent four years developing the project just to find an abrupt end to his work while leading actor Marlon Brando pulled the strings in the shadows. Now for the first time, the living key players recount what really happened and why it all went so spectacularly wrong.
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David Gregory
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Richard Stanley
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Kier-La Janisse
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Michael Gingold
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Graham Humphreys
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Edward R. Pressman
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Robert Shaye
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Tim Sullivan
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Tim Zinnemann
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Fairuza Balk
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Bruce Spaulding Fuller
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Marco Hofschneider
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Rob Morrow
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***Account of the troubled production is far more compelling than the movie*** The making of the 1996 version of "The Island of Dr. Moreau" was such a disaster that articles, books and documentaries have been made about it, like this 2014 documentary "Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau." Stanley championed the film, wrote the screenplay and was set to direct, but was fired after a few days of shooting after conflicts with Val Kilmer, who wasn't in the best of moods due to being served divorce papers while on set. Actually that wasn’t the main reason Stanley was fired. He was fine for small indie productions, but he was out of his league with a blockbuster like this. In his defense, the movie didn’t start as a blockbuster, but simply a few notches more swanky than Stanley’s previous two Indie flicks. Veteran filmmaker John Frankenheimer ha…
