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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Oct 26, 2015 20:50:47 GMT -5
This remake has some of the funniest blurbs I've ever read: Homeless rain forest hippies, FFS!
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Post by BorneAgain on Oct 26, 2015 20:57:40 GMT -5
The scene of Dr. Moreau with what appears to be an ice bucket on his head, came about due to Marlon Brando showing up on set with an ice bucket on his head and everyone was to intimidated by his reputation to ask him to take it off.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Oct 26, 2015 21:10:39 GMT -5
The documentary about the troubled production on Netflix is pretty good.
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Post by mizerable on Oct 26, 2015 23:55:49 GMT -5
God, what a shitty movie that was. The egos involved were to the maximum douchiness.
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Post by DSR on Oct 27, 2015 1:03:40 GMT -5
Supposedly Brando wore hats all throughout the production, and wanted a big reveal where he took off his hat and revealed a whale-esque blowhole.
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Post by Mozenrath on Oct 27, 2015 1:07:27 GMT -5
Supposedly Brando wore hats all throughout the production, and wanted a big reveal where he took off his hat and revealed a whale-esque blowhole. The weird thing is that that'd actually be sort of appropriate to the animal people theme. Weird, yes, but I've heard worse.
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Post by hassanchop on Oct 27, 2015 1:50:19 GMT -5
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Oct 27, 2015 3:25:36 GMT -5
The documentary about the troubled production on Netflix is pretty good. Yes. It's the second best documentary about a troubled production of a film starring Marlon Brando {Spoiler}OK, if you must know the #1 film (IMO) is 'Heart Of Darkness; A Filmmakers Apocalypse' about the filming of Apocalypse Now.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Oct 27, 2015 4:34:45 GMT -5
-Richard Stanley consulted a warlock in London for advice on the film, such as casting Marlon Brando. When he died, the production went downhill. When who died, the warlock? Richard Stanley's still alive and Brando died in 2004, so if they're attributing the movie's failure to the death of some random warlock in London...that actually makes a whole lot of sense.
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Oct 27, 2015 8:10:51 GMT -5
Production of my film "Blue Avenger Falls" may be worse.
1.It was a parody Super Hero film, with a serious storyline but played like 60's Batman. I was the lead.
2.We started filming in January 2011 and shot the last scene in August 2012.
3.The original director I hired wanted to film it like a documentary, which resulted in the audio being a little distorted and it looked like a cheap home movie. So I fired him.
4.We shot in the basement of Shepherd University's Knutti Hall (where I was attending school) and later found out, it was full of asbestos.
5.We only had between 6-10 to film, but most of the cast did not show up til 8-8:30. The result was we'd go down there and achieve nothing some nights.
6.I rewrote the script at least 8 times and the final version was 52 pages.
7.We shot a scene in a friend's basement and I found out the crew consumed 72 cans of soda (there was 4 of us, mind you) while we were filming, of our friend's parents supply.
8.We shot a fight scene at a baseball field in nearby Keedysville. No one ever used it...or so we thought.
a.One day we were set to film at 8am til 5pm. I went to grab everyone, only to find one of the actor's missing. So we had to track him down and we did to his gf's house. We picked him up at 9:30 and she was not happy about it (still hates me to this day over it). We got to the set only to find it was being used for a semi-pro football league. We had to wait til they left. We went to grab lunch and came back to find they hadn't left til 3. We maybe shot til 5 before we had to leave.
b.We shot the same fight scene almost twice in two extremes of weather. One day we shot in 13 degrees, the other we shot in 98.
c.Two of the actors dipped out of the project after no-showing a film shoot where they simply just forgot to tell me they had work.
d.We shot on 3 different cameras. Two digital and one film, we had to convert the film to .avi format. This took 8 hours, so I set in the basement of my school just waiting for it to finish.
9.To this day the film remains unfinished. We invested over a year and a half of work into it, at least 1000 dollars in gas and food money, and came away with nothing. The last scene shot was August 2012, I still have the film of it but I have lost 80 pounds since production and while all of the actors still live in the area, I haven't been able to convince anyone to resume it.
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Post by mysterydriver on Oct 27, 2015 20:40:22 GMT -5
I really enjoyed the documentary. The stories of the people cast to play the animals discussing how they were essentially stuck for the most part and eventually took over their living arrangement, buying complete nonsense (and drugs) to fill their time. One discussing the super large hot wheels track someone purchased and assembled and would run little cars through constantly while people high on whatever watched mindlessly.
One actor losing his 4th billed role because Brando was enamored by the little man who would eventually be apart of that amazing piano scene. The actor was German and Brando sat across from him, declaring "I know some German" before talking complete gibberish for a minute. Not being able to understand, the actor apologized and Brando did it again. Using context clues, the man gathered Brando was discussing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...but Brando denied this and demanded "I THOUGHT YOU KNEW GERMAN!?" before being called to set. The little man took the German actor's spot soon after.
James Woods was originally cast for the Val Kilmer part and Kilmer the main character's part. After his wife left him, Kilmer demanded less work and a new role so they ditched Woods to maintain the larger name.
Brando declaring to a producer that they needed to stop production and rewrite the script to reveal that Dr. Moreau was a dolphin is also a highlight.
My favorite was when Brando requested peacock feathers for his hat before a scene, seemingly diverting work because it was hot, and one of the workers shouted "I KNOW! I KNOW!" and disappeared for a half hour. He returned with peacock feathers...having seen an animal the day before at a location, he had went back, tackled it, and plucked out the feathers.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Oct 27, 2015 20:44:53 GMT -5
Yeah, the documentary was great. I knew Val Kilmer had a rep for being an ass, but holy shit.
And I wish Fairuza Balk was my friend. She's ride or die.
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Post by Juice on Oct 27, 2015 21:11:23 GMT -5
The documentary about the troubled production on Netflix is pretty good. What's it called I have always been fascinated by this, and actually was considering making this very thread myself about a week ago.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Oct 28, 2015 2:30:41 GMT -5
The documentary about the troubled production on Netflix is pretty good. What's it called I have always been fascinated by this, and actually was considering making this very thread myself about a week ago. Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Oct 28, 2015 6:12:45 GMT -5
My only issue with the doc is that they barely mentioned David Thewlis and his experiences at all.
And Rob Morrow looks great
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