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Inside the weird world of the original Island Of Dr Moreau: From warlocks, witchcraft and a director dressed as a dog to Marlon Brando's bizarre infatuation with the world's shortest man
Sex, drugs, suicide, mutant animals, monstrous Hollywood egos, a director disguised as a dog, an English warlock and the smallest man is the true story of the making of a film
Now, with Sir Anthony Hopkins lined up to star in a new cinematic adaptation of Wells’ book, the film’s backers will be fervently hoping not to encounter the myriad problems that made the original production one of the most infamously troubled of all time. The title character in The Island Of Dr Moreau, played by Marlon Brando, was a mad scientist with an oddball assistant ( Val Kilmer) who, driven out of polite society by anti-vivisectionists, and holed up in a remote Pacific Ocean lair, created grotesque hybrids of animals and people in an ill-fated bid to combine their best characteristics and save humanity from itself. He arrived ‘only’ a week late, refused to learn his lines (they were fed to him by his assistant, through an earpiece), and, to stay cool, insisted on wearing a makeshift upside-down ice-bucket on his head at all times, on screen as well as off.
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