The classic H.G. Wells story The Island of Dr. Moreau has been adapted multiple times in various different ways over the years – I’d personally like to recommend Island of Lost Souls, the classic 1932 adaptation starring Charles Laughton and Bela Lugosi – and Deadline reports that Anthony Hopkins has just come on board to star in the latest adaptation.
Hopkins will star in Eyes in the Trees for director Timothy Woodward Jr., being described as a “reimagining of the classic H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau.”
“In the film, Hopkins portrays a geneticist who has been isolated after the government stopped funding his research following the violent outbreak of one of his test subjects. Later, two renowned filmmakers and their crew embark on a journey of discovery, only to find their excursion turned into a fight for survival for not just themselves, but the entire human race.”
B. Harrison Smith (Where the Scary Things Are) and Mike Manning (Son of the South) wrote the screenplay for Eyes in the Trees, of course based on the H.G. Wells source material.
The Island of Dr. Moreau was originally published in 1896, the tale of a shipwrecked man who ends up on the titular island and discovers it’s inhabited by human-animal hybrids.
Scream Factory just announced a Blu-ray release of the infamous 1996 adaptation.
‘Island of Lost Souls’
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