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

Movie · 2014

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

Released 24 August 2014 More from 2014 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

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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How old were they?

Oldest first
Burt Lancaster
as Self (archive footage)
Died aged 80, before release
Barbara Steele
as Self (archive footage)
76
Ron Perlman
as Self (archive footage)
64
Charles Laughton
as Self (archive footage)
Died aged 63, before release
Rob Morrow
as Self
51
Marco Hofschneider
as Self
44
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
36years between the oldest and youngest billed
80Burt Lancaster — oldest on the call sheet
44Marco Hofschneider — youngest billed
63average age of the credited cast
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