Mark Dacascos Instagram – Aloha!🙏🏽❤️🤙🏽 Repost from @stanwinstonschool • Today is the 27th anniversary of John Frankenheimer’s The Island of Dr. Moreau. Among Stan Winston’s favorite movies as a child was 1933’s Island of Lost Souls, based on H.G. Wells’ novel about a deranged scientist — played by Charles Laughton — who genetically engineers half-human, half animal mutants. The story was remade as The Island of Dr. Moreau in 1977, in a modestly successful film starring Burt Lancaster and Michael York. In the late 1990s, British writer and director Richard Stanley attempted yet another cinematic take on the story, having written a much-admired script and secured the acting services of Marlon Brando as Dr. Moreau. Originally, Stan Winston Studio was brought on to design and build forty-two ‘beast people’ for this latest The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), fourteen of which would be hero characters realized as complex prosthetic makeups applied to performers. Remaining background characters would sport one-piece masks. The all-makeup approach was mandated by a short design and build schedule — only twenty weeks from start to finish, due to a rushed start of principal photography — and also reflected Stans’s disenchantment with creating characters using all mechanical heads. “I wanted to create the man-beasts primarily as prosthetic makeups so that I could take the performance out of the puppeteer’s hands and put it back under the control of the performers in the makeups. This was the perfect project to do that because these characters were essentially humanoid.” @valkilmerofficial @officialdavidthewlis @dacascosmark @perlmutations @fairuza #drmoreau #stanwinstonstudio #behindthescenes #moviemagic #moviemaking #practicaleffects