Richard Stanley Knows the Ups and Downs of Hollywood Moviemaking

Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin

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🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Richard Stanley is a South African filmmaker, known for his boundary-pushing work in the horror and science fiction genres. Stanley grew up in apartheid-era South Africa, studying anthropology and filming tribal dance and initiation rituals. In the 90s, he directed the horror features Hardware and Dust Devil. He was then famously fired from an adaptation of The Island of Dr. Moreau starring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer after only three days on set, an event which later became the subject of the documentary, Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau. Stanley went on to direct several documentaries and returned to narrative film in 2019 with Color Out of Space starring Nicolas Cage. Richard Stanley and Alec discuss Stanley’s upbringing in South Africa, what it’s like directing Marlon Brando and his biggest regrets from the failed Moreau production.

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0:00.0	Yellowstone, television's number one show is back on Paramount Network.
0:03.6	I John Dutton, who solemnly swear to uphold the Constitution of the State of Montana,
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0:21.1	Signed as a declaration of war.
0:23.2	We're already at war.
0:24.2	Yellowstone, new episodes Sundays at 8 p.m. Eastern exclusively on Paramount Network.
0:32.4	This is Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's the Thing from I Heart Radio.
0:38.4	South African filmmaker Richard Stanley is hard to define.
0:43.0	Part anthropologist, part journalist, and part Hollywood outsider making boundary pushing films.
0:50.0	Stanley grew up in a partied South Africa, shooting tribal dances and rituals,
0:55.9	and later filming in war-torn Afghanistan, choices that have greatly informed his perspective.
1:02.3	In the 90s, he wrote and directed the film's hardware and dust devil,
1:07.6	blending the science fiction and horror genres.
1:11.2	His next film was the third adaptation of H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moro,
1:17.5	a terrifying morality play on scientific ethics, starring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer.
1:25.4	The troubled production went quickly downhill, and Stanley was removed from the project only three days in.
1:32.5	The chaos was captured.
1:34.4	In the documentary Lost Soul, the doomed journey of Richard Stanley's The Island of Dr. Moro.
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