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In Reply to: "War Of The Worlds" Remake. posted by AudioHead on August 18, 2004 at 06:24:07:
AudioHead,We can only hope that Cruise plays the man who is the first to approach the alien capsule and says "Welcome to California" and is instantly vapourized. Perhaps Kevin Costner could be the priest who supervises the square dancing and is about the third person to get demoleculized while holding out the Crucifix. The remaining three hours will be much improved.
I'm not sure what Spielberg can do that will be on a grander scale than "Independence Day" which is really the same story, thuugh the aliens in that one are defeated by a computer virus rather than a biological one. If you think about it, a super advanced alien race would probably anticipate both these kinds of attacks: remember the 30-day quarantine of the Apollo 11 atronauts upon their return? and the availability of Norton anti-virus as used by 10 years olds in suburban New Jersey? Those travelling hundreds of millions of miles will have had time to think on the road..
Actually, my favourite line in all science fiction is from "Independence Day": "If you wanted to be an astronaut, you never should have married a stripper."
Cheers,
Bambi B
Follow Ups:
As spoken by Harry Connick, Jr., who is married to a Victoria's Secret model?
I believe that the remake will take place in the time period of Wells' original story so there won't be any nuclear blasts and the Martian machines will be tripods, not the suacer like aircraft in the Pal movie.
If Spielberg is also faithful to setting and character
of the original story, then Cruise, whom I presume will play the
Maybury Hill protagonist, will need to brush up on his British accent.
~AH
rico,Thanks for the information. An 1898 setting could be very interesting- a greater contrast in Earth/Mars technologies. I think Spielberg would avoid the kind of distracting anachronmisms of "League of Extraodinary Gentlemen". The car looked like a 1987 glassfibre 1935 retro kit car with picture frame mouldings glued on it.
Reproducing old technologies and avoiding the temptation to update from a position of hindsight is very difficult and rarely well done. The English are better at it as so many scripts are still written in rooms without heating- and wiring from 1912.
Cheers,
Bambi B
If they stay true to the book then unfortunately, Richard Burton isn't around to do the voice-over for the main character as he did on Jeff Wayne's double-album production of War Of The Worlds. Too bad.And, I do hope the production team spends a LOT of time on the scenes with Thunderchild.
I vaguely remember a B$W British version of War of the Worlds, that was more faithfull to the original book.
Jack
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