War of the Worlds: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin. An alien invasion threatens the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting fo
For instance, Gene Barry’s Dr Clayton Forrester in Byron Haskin’s The War of the Worlds (1953) is a thinly veiled version of Oppenheimer, complete with similar biographical details and stature as scientific hero, and a figure who is finally left roaming around shattered cities amidst an apoc...
Key Stage 3 Production this year brought to stage our unique version of the renowned musical "The War of the Worlds". The Sci-Fi Musical turned into a multi-media show, and more than 50 students on stage, who played instruments, sang, danced and acted....
Whenever a Hollywood producer brings out a new motion picture in which he has tampered with the plot of a well‑known novel or play, he's inviting criticism. We took that risk when we made the H. G. Wells classic, "War of The Worlds," but inasmuch as none of us connected with it...
The complete script of 'The War of the Worlds' by H. G. Wells, as performed by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air, and broadcast on CBS on November 30, 1938.
Edgware had been a scene of confusion, Chalk Farm a riotous tumult, but this was a whole population in movement. It is hard to imagine that host. It had no character of its own. The figures poured out past the corner, and receded with their backs to the group in the lane. Along th...
Verniere, James
Before we can explore the galactography of war, we first must ask whether war is in any sense a "universal" phenomenon.* If the answer is clearly negative, our subject matter may be a null set. At least to the extent that competition and aggression are recognized solutions to ecological ...
In a 1960 court deposition, as part of a lawsuit suing CBS to be recognized as the broadcast’s rightful co-author, Welles offered an explanation for his inspiration forWar of the Worlds: “I had conceived the idea of doing a radio broadcast in such a manner that a crisis would actual...
Imagine the scene as the innocent Yuvan would have witnessed it. The vivid insanity of it all. The appointed Soprana bridging the gap between worlds with her song. The Orokin Executor shrilling the ritual worlds. The bone-white Void creeping in on all the fronts. The Kuva steaming scarlet ...