How Nicolas Cage helped Richard Stanley return to directing with 'Color Out of Space'
On the third day of filming "Color Out of Space," his first narrative feature in over two decades, Richard Stanley finally let himself believe he was making another movie.
"My initial sense of incredulity wore off," said the South African director. Best known for his cult 1990 cyberpunk debut, "Hardware," Stanley returns to the director's chair with the H.P. Lovecraft tale starring Nicolas Cage as a man whose family is transformed when a mysterious meteorite lands in their yard.
Three days were also about how long it took for him to be fired from the set of 1996's "The Island of Dr. Moreau." The famously disastrous Marlon Brando-Val Kilmer picture was once set to be his Hollywood studio breakthrough but instead brought his career to a grinding halt.
That experience left him, understandably, shaken. He wouldn't direct another narrative feature for more than 20 years. So it was reassuring for him
