The War Of The Worlds

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Pendragon Pictures will soon be making a new version of this film. It was supposed to go into production last September but with the events of 9/11 and with similarities with the story they decided to put back production with the release date now set for 2005 and not 2003 as previously announced.

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Due to many similarities between the planned version of
WAR OF THE WORLRAB and the World Trade Center attack,
Pendragon Pictures is pushing production of WAR OF THE WORLRAB back one year, in which time the screenplay is being reworked. This new version will be an accurate adaptation of the Wells classic story placed in its original 1898 setting.


I am very much looking forward to this new version and I hope they do the original story justice.
 
My god, does this mean it won't be adapted to be set in donwntown New York with Bruce willis as the Preacher armed to the teeth? :D
 
I personally WANT this to happen, because I love WotW!!

But did you there was the possability it being made in the mid eighties, when the WofW album by Jeff Wayne came out? I seem to remember Saturday Superstore or maybe Swap Shop showed a clip from the video from the title tune. It had the Martians towering over everything, firing away with the heat ray, and a rather large wall crashing onto a crowd of people crushing them to death!!!

That made my saturday, and the clip was stunning!!!

And do you have the original radio broadcast, you know, the Orsen Wells version? It was given away with Empire Magazine a while ago, and it gives me chills down my back everytime I hear it!

And I try to catch the original 1953 film whenever it's on.
 
Kris

Do you still have those martians standing about in Woking town centre or have they gone now ?

I wonder if there will be a film crew heading your way in the coming months, somehow I doubt it as Horsell Common is right next to a main road as I remember and it might not look 19th century enough, but you never know.
 
I remember very well the release of thr musical version in 1978, my dad got it on Lp and played it to death for ages . I have various copies of that too and I also have a cd of the 1938 broadcast which I bought a few years ago.

The images you describe from the "video" sound like the images in the sleeve notes of the Lp/cd, are you sure they were moving images or maybe just a montage of the fantastic artwork used in the sleeve notes? I also have the 1953 film on Laserdisc, I think that was the first sci-fi film of the 1950's which was produced in colour (might be wrong).

Back to the new version, I think the actors etc are going to be mostly unknowns but I did read somwhere that Michael Caine might be the lead actor (bad or good?)
 
Horsell common is also right next to where I live (in the holidays anyway)! I seem to remember one of the local papers ran an April Fools joke a few years ago about a film being made in the village.

And yes, the aliens were still there the last time I went home.
 
MicroSmurf:

"I remember very well the release of thr musical version in 1978, my dad got it on Lp and played it to death for ages . I have various copies of that too and I also have a cd of the 1938 broadcast which I bought a few years ago."

When I went up to my cousins, he had it on LP and also used to listen to it, then got it on double tape for christmas. But now it seems to be `broken`, the sound degrades on it but I will try it again.

"The images you describe from the "video" sound like the images in the sleeve notes of the Lp/cd, are you sure they were moving images or maybe just a montage of the fantastic artwork used in the sleeve notes?"

The images were the artwork, and they were very much moving. The martian war machine was in the left corner and in the background, but didn't move much, just overlooked the scene. The wall and people were live action and in the bottom centre of the frame.

Now, what really surprised me was the fact it was the first AND only time it was shown.

BTW, did anyone have the comic adaption of the story? It was a small pocket-sized mag and used to read it a lot.

BTW2, 1953 version won the best special effects oscar, and nominated for best film editing and best sound!
 
Yep, they're still there. Woking seems to be rightly proud of it's association with Wells, the local Weatherspoons pub has a statue of the invisible man (no, that's not a joke, statue is of bandages etc.)

Doubt they'll use Horsell common which is a shame because I live about 1/2 a mile away and might have had a chance to be an extra! might use locations around ldershot though (I gather James Bond are!)
 
I'm looking forward to it too, but stories such as the one above really irk me! Is the studio really so concerned about its box office takings that it will postpone a creative project in case audiences find a parallel between a classic novel and 9/11? Particularly, when the picture is apparently going to be "an accurate adaptation" of the book, rather than a random apocalyptic blockbuster. I think this is madness and I wonder where this sort of insanity will end...will HG Wells be condemned as pro-Muslim or found to have links with Osama?(!)


xx
 
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