War of the Worlds Remake Already Shot Overseas

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War of the Worlds Remake Already Shot Overseas

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @03:38AM from the honor-the-orson dept.

AlphaJoe writes "In regards to remaking War of the Worlds, Steven Spielberg has apparently been beaten to the punch by an English rival, director Timothy Hines, as being reported by SF Crowsnest. Principal photography has already been completed, and a Spring 2005 release date is anticipated. The English version is staying true to the original story, which was set in the late 1800's, where as Spielburg's version will be drastically modified to a more modern version. Hines feels there will be room for both films to exist, as they will be drastically different in story and scope."

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Re:My first Mod Parent Up! posting by nemski · 2004-09-15 04:02 · Score: 0, Troll

1938 - War of the worlds (Fake news broadcast) 1950's - Game shows (Fake game shows) 1990's - Milli Vanilli (Fake singing) 2000's - George W. Bush (Fake Presidency

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Re:But what about the Mexican version? by JustNiz · 2004-09-15 04:10 · Score: 0, Troll

It probably got outsourced to India where it will be filmed in Hindi by Mr. Dalliwallispielbergi, then badly overdubbed into English.
Re:Good by CmdrGravy · 2004-09-15 05:00 · Score: 0, Troll

Saving Private Ryan was an awful film, Schindlers List was OK but got a lot more credit for it's subject than the actual film. Minority Report was also a bad film as was Close Encounters. I haven't seen Always. Jaws wasn't great either.

Other people may well like these films but I don't. And let this post be a warning to any budding film makers wanting to market films to me !
Re:Already done? by Dirtside · 2004-09-15 05:42 · Score: 0, Troll

And by the way, "V" and "Independance Day" both ripped off Arthur C. Clark's premise for "Childhood's End": Giant city sized spaceships suddenly show up and proceed to silently hover over every major metropolis on earth, omniously.
Yeah, except "Independence Day" followed up with the aliens blowing up all the major cities and trying to exterminate humanity, whereas "Childhood's End" is about the aliens trying to help humanity advance to transcendence.
I would be surprised if CE was the first time anyone had written the idea of giant spaceships appearing over Earth cities.

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