However, Willis dropped out of the project before filming started. Moreau, updated from an English sailor in Wells' novel to a UN negotiator. This included Kilmer, who bore particular blame for the set's toxic and combative culture.īruce Willis was originally set to portray Edward Prendrick in The Island of Dr. On paper the project was promising, and a potential spiritual successor to Brando's famous turn in Apocalypse Now. However, a series of personal tragedies, unchecked egos, and plain bad luck made the movie one of Hollywood's most infamous disasters and damaged the careers of seemingly everyone involved. Montgomery and a strong supporting cast including Fairuza Balk, Temuera Morrison, and Ron Perlman. The movie was first set to feature Bruce Willis as Edward Prendrick, the protagonist who washes up on the shore of the island legendary actor Marlon Brando as the mad Dr. Kilmer was not in the original plans for The Island of Dr. RELATED: Val Kilmer Broke An Impressive Acting Record When He Was Just 17 A Moreau adaptation was a passion project for then-up-and-coming director Richard Stanley, and he successfully pitched the idea to New Line Cinema. Wells' pioneering sci-fi novels have been adapted into several successful films, such as 2020's Invisible Man movie reboot and the multiple versions of The War of the Worlds. Wells, about an island of human-animal hybrids created by a mad scientist. Moreau was an adaptation of the famous novel by H. Additionally, Schumacher aimed to dive deeper into the fractured psyche of Bruce Wayne, which would have given audiences a much more mature take on the character.The Island of Dr. The film stylistically pushed the whimsical aesthetic that Burton had been exploring to all-new heights, while also borrowing heaping helpings of camp from Adam West's tenure as the titular character. And there's a reason why these stories and these films are so impactful and so many people respond to them, because you need superheroes now more than ever, in 2020."įollowing Tim Burton's massively successful Batman and Batman Returns, Joel Schumacher took the director's chair as Val Kilmer took over the Dark Knight from Michael Keaton for Forever.
My dad is very inspiring in that way, because he did a superhero movie and it was really successful, but also controversial, and it changed his career. And now with Joaquin doing the Joker, it's just getting so that the envelope is just being pushed constantly, and I'm sure Robert Pattinson's going to be awesome in. "I love what Christopher Nolan did with The Dark Knight.
I'm definitely interested in it," Kilmer shared with about his interest in comic book movies.
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