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Originally Posted by dilligaf1701
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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Good point ... for a minute I was forgetting HG Wells and Orsen Welles and thinking of the previous film ...
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! 