Richard Stanley is the award-winning South African-born filmmaker, who made a name of himself with his first feature film, the sci-fi movie Hardware (1990). A low budget movie about a mad-dog android loose in an apartment was released in 1990. Critics slammed it as a Terminator rip-off, yet the film became a financial success. The 1.5 million ...
I've always had the desire to show people things they have never seen before, which is difficult, because Hollywood prefers things which are like something else. I want to find something that people have never seen before and put it on screen. The desire to bring people back something they don't know about or haven't seen is pretty strong.
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I do not feel that at any time it was ever my decision to make any of the movies I made, although I don't regret them.
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Fact
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The great grandson of the explorer Henry M. Stanley, Richard was inspired to make a film from H.G. Well's story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau", not only because it appealed to him on its own merits but because Wells had claimed that Joseph Conrad's character, Kurz, in his novel "Heart of Darkness" was based on Dr. Moreau, and Conrad, in his own defense, claimed that Kurz was based on Henry M. Stanley.
Wrote a script called "Nemesis" (inspired by the H.P. Lovecraft poem with the same title) about a group of robbers who break into the vault of a very old Dutch bank to get some diamonds, but end up trapped inside the building fighting a demon who possessed one of them. The project was planned as a starring vehicle for Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sam Raimi was looking to direct it in the 90s, but sadly it didn't happen.
Wrote a revisionist remake of The Wild Geese (1978). The project was essentially a modern day mercenary saga with meanspirited twists; it stayed in limbo despite the support of Roger Moore and the original movie's backers (Asia Argento was also in the frame for the female lead).
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In the mid-90s his adaptation of Robert E. Howard's "Solomon Kane" was optioned by Edward R. Pressman who wanted to set it up with Daniel Day-Lewis in the lead role. The whole thing was killed off by the "Moreau" affair.
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Turned down an offer to direct Spice World (1997).
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Turned down an offer to direct Judge Dredd (1995).
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Removed as director of The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) after one to four (accounts vary) days of filming. He snuck back onto the the set in a dog-man mask.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Replace
2017
post-production
I Am Legion
screenplay announced
Vallonden som byggde gud
2015
Video short short story
L'autre monde
2013
Documentary writer
The Theatre Bizarre
2011
screenplay - segment "The Mother Of Toads"
Imago mortis
2009
screenplay collaboration
The Sea of Perdition
2006
Short
The Abandoned
2006
screenplay
The Sun's Gone Dim
2006
Video short
How to Make a Freak
2005
Video documentary short interview questions
Europe - 99euro-films 2
2003
segment "Children of the Kingdom"
The Secret Glory
2001
Documentary
The Island of Dr. Moreau
1996
screenplay
Brave
1994
Dust Devil
1992
written by
Hardware
1990
written by
Incidents in an Expanding Universe
1985
Rites of Passage
1983
Short written by
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
L'autre monde
2013
Documentary
The Theatre Bizarre
2011
segment "The Mother Of Toads"
The Sea of Perdition
2006
Short
The Sun's Gone Dim
2006
Video short
Europe - 99euro-films 2
2003
segment "Children of the Kingdom"
The White Darkness
2002
Documentary
The Secret Glory
2001
Documentary
The Island of Dr. Moreau
1996
: uncredited; fired, replaced by John Frankenheimer - uncredited
Brave
1994
Fields of the Nephilim: Revelations
1993
Video short segments "Preacher Man", "Blue Water"
Dust Devil
1992
Voice of the Moon
1990
Documentary short as R Stanley
Hardware
1990
Incidents in an Expanding Universe
1985
Rites of Passage
1983
Short
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Dust Devil
1992
Transforming Dust Devil in Dream Sequence (uncredited)
Hardware
1990
Talking elevator (voice, uncredited)
Incidents in an Expanding Universe
1985
Clean Shaven Pretentious Filmmaker / Greasy Beggar / Green Army Gunner / ...
Rites of Passage
1983
Short
Primordial Man
That Deadwood Feeling
2009
Video
The Actor
Vampire Diary
2006
Spanish Rapist
The Sun's Gone Dim
2006
Video short
Europe - 99euro-films 2
2003
segment "Children of the Kingdom"
Dagon
2001
Fish Monster (uncredited)
The Island of Dr. Moreau
1996
Melting bulldog (uncredited)
Twelve Monkeys
1995
Man in Transit Lounge (uncredited)
Brave
1994
Man in the table (uncredited)
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Europe - 99euro-films 2
2003
line producer - segment "Children of the Kingdom"
The White Darkness
2002
Documentary producer
The Secret Glory
2001
Documentary producer
Camera Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
Documentary still photographer
Voice of the Moon
1990
Documentary short additional camera operator
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Dust Devil
1992
post-production financing: final cut
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Baskin
2015
special thanks
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
Documentary special thanks
The Mercenary
2012
Video short special thanks
36 pasos
2006
spiritual support
How to Make a Freak
2005
Video documentary short special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
A World War II Fairytale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
2017
Documentary post-production
Himself
Uncovering Wolfen
2017
Documentary filming
Himself
78/52
2017
Documentary
Himself
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
2016
Video documentary
Himself
Richard Stanley on H.G. Wells
2015
Video documentary short
Himself
All About the Girl
2014
Video documentary short
Himself
Celebrity Liam Stone Candid Travels Texas Fantastic Fest 10th Year
2014
TV Movie
Himself
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
Documentary
Himself - Director
Salón de Belleza
2014
Short
Himself
The Who: The Making of Tommy
2013
TV Movie documentary
Himself
L'autre monde
2013
Documentary
Himself
Jodorowsky's Dune
2013
Documentary
Himself
Myth Hunters
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself - Anthropologist
Richard Stanley on 'Island of Lost Souls'
2011
Video short
Himself
No Flesh Shall Be Spared
2009
Video documentary
Himself
Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare
2009
Video documentary short
Himself
In the Belly of the Beast
2001
Documentary
Himself
The Secret Glory
2001
Documentary
Narrator (voice, uncredited)
Split Screen
1999
TV Series
Himself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2001
German Independence Honorary Award
Oldenburg Film Festival
1991
Silver Raven
Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film (BIFFF)
$8 Million
