Richard Stanley's unnamed adaptation

Richard Stanley's unnamed adaptation is a potentially upcoming adaptation of The Island of Doctor Moreau.

Q&A
Richard Stanley: I like, wrote a new script for it this year. Um. A French comic book company wanted to commission a graphic novel adaptation of it. Then the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes people wanted to read the damn thing. Then CBS Television announced a rival production which they claim will be a feminist Moreau with a lady playing Dr. Moreau. So it's [??] a little bit out of control, so I don't really reget it. And I don't think it could really be much different.

Q: You're actually writing about the same topic, still? Again, if I understood correcty?

Richard Stanley: Yeah, I did another draft, this year, of the island of Dr. Moreau, slightly revised but much better. The French comic book company wanted to adapt the original script so I went back and read the original script and thought "there's so much room for improvement" so I shut down and spent two months and wrote a new draft.

Q: Should you be able to do it, this time around, who would you cast for the main lead?

Richard Stanley: Yeah, I don't think I should speculate. I'm still scared of ever actually having to make the damn movie, which I could see the same things would happen again and again. I mean, there was also a terrible version by Don Taylor before us and it was one guy who was actually on both Moreau's. He was on the Burt Lancaster Moreau and on the Marlon Brando Moreau and said that both productions were exactly the same when you can tell everyone on the Don Taylor version was drunk and everyone on the Brando version was on drugs.

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