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Hey, it can't be as good as the TV series... or again, am I the only one that watched that....?

Great story line... the aliens didn't die from the germs, they went into suspended animation, then (if I remember rightly) they got toxic waste poured on them or something, which revived them, and they then had the ability to take over human bodies.... greate series.. can't imagine why they used to show it at 3 in the morning...

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Well, I thought the 1953 version was terrible.. The only version I have seen or heard so far that even gets close to the story is Jeff Wayne's musical version.

Be interesting to see this one though.

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Yup - I have both seasons on vhs :)

Soon to be converted to dvd I hasten to add;)

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Exactly.

The pendragon one is a film of the book rather than an 'up to date' one. Although it will be going straight to dvd.

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Good copies???

/wonders how much dilligaf would want to run off a copy for me too...

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They can only ever be as good as the original vhs recording I'm afraid. Not TOO bad - but I taped them from ITV.

We'll see ;):)

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Yeah, of course... and it was before the days of cable... (and satelite for most people)..

Ohh I'm all excited now! :)

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Well, it is only a teaser trailer. You'll get a fuller one nearer the time. If it's not out until next summer a lot of the post-production won't have been completed yet anyway.

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how bizarre that 2 War of The Worlds films are currently in production - is this because the rights have expired or something?

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1953 ... 50 years ... yep, that's a reasonable assumption.

I think it looks quite good from the teaser anyway. My only concern is that Spielberg will turn it into another examination of his childhood issues. :erm: :D

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I have no idea how rights work - but as the original book was published in the late 1890's maybe the copyright has expired by now.

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The same nation that did it in the last WOTW film ... Independance Day ;)

I must admit, I saw "Tom Cruise" and thought... oh dear :erm: I'm not expecting anything worthwhile to come of this to be honest.

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Good point ... for a minute I was forgetting HG Wells and Orsen Welles and thinking of the previous film ... :dunce: But I suppose it depends on how rights are assigned. The novel is well out of copyright, but I wonder how adaption rights are assigned and how long they last? Ectc has a point, it's a big coincidence that two new screenplays appear 50 years after the last one. Mind you, Armageddon and Deep Impact both came out together, maybe Mars is just fashionable again.

Personally, I think you have to go a long way to beat Mars Attacks! :D

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'Can't we all _just_ get along?' :)

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I remember that! It think it was quite good too. Pity they don't show it anymore, I'd love to watch it again.




Any chance of another for me? :angel: :)

Yep, & I think Volcano & Dante's Peak came out quite close together. Seems to happen a lot, having two films with a similar premise being released by rival studios. I think there's another "Alexander" in the works too, as well as Stone's recently released (in the US) one.