July 02, 2005

War of the Worlds Retrospective
War of the Worlds Book Covers
Book Illustrations
Orson Welles Radio Play, Script (& its sale).
posted by peacay 18 years ago
  • Great FPP! Thanks!
  • Oooh, now this one, I like, illustrations and all. Might even go out and buy it...
  • From IMDB WotW trivia: 'Steven Spielberg ' owns one of the last copies of the 'Orson Welles ' radio script, which he purchased at an auction. The director wanted to make the film years ago, but decided against it when Independence Day (1996) was released. However, the director wanted to work with 'Tom Cruise ' again after Minority Report (2002) and picked War of the Worlds (2005) as their next project. Does Spielberg do eBay?
  • Also see this post for a slow download of the radio play and other Mercury Theater downloads.
  • I'm so proud of myself for not inlcuding any links to current material...although I confess there were a couple in there on the first preview. It was at this time that the night nurse brought my antipsychotic medication and I found when I returned to the screen that I just couldn't suffer Cruise's alien worshipping juju shadow and chemical imbalance being cast across the pristine wilds of HG Well's history.
  • Saw the movie last night. It was pretty good, though I would agree with those who have not enjoyed the ending. Cruise was very, very good in the movie. I do wonder how the movie differs from Wells' book. I have little interest in reading the book.
  • What's not to like about the ending? (warning, spoilers may follow.)
  • http://www.darkhorse.com/zones/wotw/wotw_popup.php?p=0 Updates every Friday... 12 pages the 1st week, 9 pages the 2nd, 4 pages this week. Meh. Still, check it out.
  • I thought the movie was superb, an intense, bitter, onslaught of purely bastardly machines that consistently kill the fucking shit out of people. Oh, yeah, and then there's the ending, which is absolutely terrible in every possible way (spoiler: I just totally didn't buy that Dakota Fanning's character became Darth Vader). Nice post, btw.
  • Everyone bitches about the movies ending...but it's the same as the book and the 1953 movie. The ending with Tom Cruise clicking his red slippers together.
  • I can still complain about it. I guess that my beef is with Wells, then, and not Spielberg. I suppose that will make my revenge that much easier to carry out.
  • No, not the coughcoughviruscoughcough ending, which is fine, although Spielberg did kind of handle it badly. No, I meant the other ending. The one right at the end.
  • The part where Dakota Fanning covers 60 percent of her body and they do close-ups of her genitalia?
  • Last week at work, our copier was making the same sound that the death ray in the 1953 version made. Unfortunately, no one was killed.