Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

Aug 24, 2014 | IMDB 6.7

98 min Watch Now

Documentary

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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Richard Stanley, Kier-La Janisse, Michael Gingold, Graham Humphreys, Edward R. Pressman, Robert Shaye, Tim Sullivan, Tim Zinnemann, Fairuza Balk, Bruce Spaulding Fuller

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