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

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

98 mins | Documentary | Aug. 24, 2014

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.

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

98 mins | Documentary | Aug. 24, 2014

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's “Island of Dr. Moreau”
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.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Severin Films
Original title Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's “Island of Dr. Moreau”
Directors David Gregory
Writers

Cast

Richard Stanley

as Himself

Fairuza Balk

as Herself

Marco Hofschneider

as Himself

Kier-La Janisse

as Herself

Michael Gingold

as Himself

Graham Humphreys

as Himself

Edward R. Pressman

as Himself

Robert Shaye

as Himself

Marlon Brando

as Himself (archive footage)

Val Kilmer

as Himself (archive footage)

John Frankenheimer

as Himself (archive footage)

Stephen Earnhart

as Himself

H.G. Wells

as Himself (archive footage)

Joseph Conrad

as Himself (archive footage)

Henry Morton Stanley

as Himself (archive footage)

Charles Laughton

as Himself (archive footage)

Burt Lancaster

as Himself (archive footage)

John DeLuca

as Himself (archive footage)

Roman Polanski

as Himself (archive footage)

Ruth Vitale

as Herself (archive footage)

Bruce Willis

as Himself (archive footage)

James Woods

as Himself (archive footage)

Barbara Steele

as Herself (archive footage)

Jürgen Prochnow

as Himself (archive footage)

Cheyenne Brando

as Herself (archive footage)

Ron Perlman

as Self (archive footage)