Another Remake Of The Island Of Dr. Moreau On The Way

Deadline reports that Warner Bros and Appian Way are joining forces to make a new contemporary re-imagining of author H. G. Wells classic 1896 novel "The Island Of Dr. Moreau".

The tale follows a shipwreck survivor who finds himself on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a eminent but disgraced physiologist who creates human-like beings from animals via vivisection.

"Hemlock Grove" writers Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy have been hired to pen the script for this new film which is billed as a "sci-fi film with a topical ecological message."

Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson Killoran and Michael Connolly will produce.

The book has been adapted at least three times before, in 1932 as the Island of Lost Souls again in 1977, and the ridiculous 1996 version starring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer.