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 (2014) is a documentary by David Gregory you can watch online on iFILM. It traces how a single remake turned into one of the great Hollywood disasters of the 1990s.

In 1996, New Line set out to film H. G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau. Director Richard Stanley had nursed the project for four years, then got fired a few days into shooting. What came next was bedlam: brutal jungle heat, a cast going feral, a hasty replacement director, and Marlon Brando quietly rewriting his own rules from the sidelines. For the first time, the people who lived through it sit down and explain how it all fell apart.

Gregory builds the whole thing from candid interviews with those who were actually on the island, and it plays less like a takedown than a strange tale of obsession swallowed by the studio system. If you love film-set war stories and great movies that never happened, this one is for you. Stream Lost Soul (2014) online on iFILM.