War of the worlds

[Mr_love_monkey]

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...

[Stuart]

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.

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

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...

Yup - I have both seasons on vhs

Soon to be converted to dvd I hasten to add

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by scastle

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.

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.

[Mr_love_monkey]

Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

Yup - I have both seasons on vhs

Soon to be converted to dvd I hasten to add

Good copies???

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

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

Good copies???

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

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

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

We'll see

[Mr_love_monkey]

Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

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

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

Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

We'll see

Ohh I'm all excited now!

Originally Posted by Aragorn

Hmm, a bit light on content for a trailer :-(

I kept expecting a burst of Jeff Wayne's music to come in after the speech :-)

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.

[etccarmageddon]

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

Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

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

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.

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

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

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.

[Jon M]

Originally Posted by Russ D

Hmmm, War of the Worlds.....now I wonder which nation on earth will stand alone leading the fightback and save humanity...

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

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

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.

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!

[Mr_love_monkey]

Originally Posted by Chris T

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

'Can't we all _just_ get along?'

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

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...

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

Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

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

Any chance of another for me?

Originally Posted by Chris T

Mind you, Armageddon and Deep Impact both came out together

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.