Warners Plans New Take On "Dr. Moreau"

[:eek:]

By Garth Franklin Friday September 6th 2013 01:32AM
Warner Bros. Pictures and Appian Way are teaming for a new contemporary re-imagining of the H.G. Wells classic 1896 novel "The Island Of Dr. Moreau".
The classic book follows a shipwreck survivor who finds himself on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a eminent but disgraced physiologist who creates human-like beings from animals via vivisection.
"Hemlock Grove" scribes Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy have been hired to pen the script for this new take which is being pushed as a "sci-fi film with a topical ecological message."
Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson Killoran and Michael Connolly will produce.
The property has been adapted at least three times before, the most recent being the much despised 1996 version starring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer.
Source: Deadline

 

[Lord]

These type of films, i ususally wait until they come out and hear some feedback on it

 

[Teelie]

Whatever they do with it won't be as bad as the Kilmer/Brando one.

 

[Project862006]

^that film is a guilty pleasure of mine

 

[Maximus One]

Idgaf I still love the Brando/Kilmer film. Because its so bad. It's just one of those crazy movies from the 90s I watched a million times as a kid. I can't not love it

 

[Maximus One]

^that film is a guilty pleasure of mine

Yea man, it's like the purest definition of a guilty pleasure. Like the Transformers movies just in different ways

 

[terry78]

Brando just did not give a **** in this one and it was hilariously cult.

 

[Teelie]

Brando literally had them write the midget into the film because he liked the guy... after filming had begun. Kilmer left with only about 40-60% of it shot. All kinds of problems with it from start to finish.

It's a terrible, terrible film but I still watch it occasionally. I still think no matter what happens on this film it'll be better though.

 

[gwynplaine]

Brando is great in Dr. Moreau.

 

[Figs]

Personally I'll stick with The Island of Lost Souls.

 

[nite-owl]

My favourite story about the Brando Moreau is that he had a radio earpiece that would feed him his lines and he once shouted out 'There's a robbery at Woolworths'.

 

[Teelie]

I've read that before too.

 

[Octoberist]

I think the behind the scenes drama was a lot more entertaining than the actual 1994 adaptation. As weird as the film was, man, it was boring as hell until the crazy third act.

 

[gwynplaine]

Personally I'll stick with The Island of Lost Souls.

 

[C. Lee]

I've only been able to see ISLAND OF LOST SOULS once, and that was decades ago. I liked it at the time, but can't remember specifics. The Burt Lancaster version id a favorite of mine. I've seen it dozens of times...a fun film. The Brando version I saw once.....I figure I will see it again some day....as punishment for something or another.

 

[vinsanity]

who can forget Nelson de la Rosa, world shortest actor

 

[Hordakfan]

This should be an interesting adaptation of the novel and who thinks David Cronenberg would be perfect for this movie? i mean he's the right man to do this kind of a film.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Cronenberg would be great, or del toro.

 

[Octoberist]

This movie is perfect for Del Toro.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

A great many things would be perfect for del toro. Evidentially he agrees, and has signed on to all of them.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Yet for some reason actually films so few of them.

 

[cryptic name]

By Garth Franklin Friday September 6th 2013 01:32AM
Warner Bros. Pictures and Appian Way are teaming for a new contemporary re-imagining of the H.G. Wells classic 1896 novel "The Island Of Dr. Moreau".
The classic book follows a shipwreck survivor who finds himself on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a eminent but disgraced physiologist who creates human-like beings from animals via vivisection.
"Hemlock Grove" scribes Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy have been hired to pen the script for this new take which is being pushed as a "sci-fi film with a topical ecological message."
Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson Killoran and Michael Connolly will produce.
The property has been adapted at least three times before, the most recent being the much despised 1996 version starring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer.
Source: Deadline

Won't be hard to make the best cinematic version of this...

[YT]5QagEozqPZs[/YT]

 

[Motown Marvel]

how much you wanna bet they title the movie simply "Moreau".

 

[Hordakfan]

Del Toro can be the producer for this and Cronenberg as director as he can include unique body transformations of human to animal hybrid, a love scene between a man and a sexy cat-woman, gore, viscoperations and all that from Cronenberg's twisted imagination as he knows how to do dark and bizarre things.

Anyone thinks the story is quite influential? many movies, TV shows, games and others?

What are your favorite takes on this legendary story?

My fave takes are Freaked (Remember this hilarious 1993 sci-fi comedy with Alex Winter, Randy Quaid, Bobcat Gothweit, Mr. T, Brooke Shields, Megan Ward etc.? loved it since i saw it in theaters as a kid), The Simpsons parody on Treehouse of Horror (Remember that one? Marge Simpson made a sexy cat chick), Osamu Tezuka's Bagi The Monster of Mighty Nature (A must watch on youtube as it's an excellent 1984 anime movie inspired by Moreau as it has a lovely catwoman and her human master who wants to know her origins), Zombie Holocaust aka Dr. Butcher MD (this is an Italian exploitation take on Moreau only with undead-human hybrids instead of animal-human hybrids) and the Batman TAS episode Tyger Tyger (Remember this one? it's the one where the ever sexy Catwoman becomes a very hot literal cat-woman ala Cheetara/Bagi/Cleo/Felicia by a mad scientist).

There was also Splice which is a modern take on Dr. moreau and Frankenstein. Even Human Centipede was Moreau-esque with a bit of Dr. Giggles.