Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) Marlon BrandoWarner Bros. are considering updating H.G. Wells’ classic tale The Island of Dr Moreau for a contemporary audience, according to a report at Deadline.

Hemlock Grove‘s Lee Shipman & Brian McGreevy have been approached to create “a sci-fi film with a topical ecological message” by Warner Bros. and Appian Way partners Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran.

Wells’ 1896 novel formed the basis of a 1913 silent film (made two years earlier) as well as famous adaptations starring Charles Laughton in 1932 and Marlon Brando in 1996 (the latter infamous for its behind-the-scenes turmoil). The character of the mad doctor who tries to create man-like beings from animals has turned up in Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and a Dr David Moreau was key in the X-Tinction Agenda story arc in The Uncanny X-Men.

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