Will we ever see a proper WOTW movie made?

[RustiSwordz]

Forgive me for being negative but i feel the chances of it happening is less than me pissing over a 6 foot high wall. That is far greater odds than the familiar million to one.

With Alien Invasion movies running amok like Skyline/ Monsters/ ID4 giving people all the glitz and spectacle they can shake a tentacle at. Spielbergs woeful half assed attempt which pissed over the story and helping a new generation think that this is the best WOTW story has to offer. It seems that the story has pretty much been killed off permamently.

It simply hasn't the impact needed to keep up with the new upstarts on the block. The story is dated, the tripod designs teddy bear mild and people out there look at Victorian England at the height of our empire in the same light as the Nazis.

Our best chance is Jeff Waynes project but that looks pretty dead at this point.

Not only that the poliotics behind the rights to the film makes the middle east peace talks look like a school yard squabble, with Paramount and Jeff wayne holding onto their rights like a starving man holds onto a plate of food. (Moot points really considering my origonal points that the WOTW franchise is a limp dog waiting to get dragged to the farmers shed.)

What do the rest of you think. Personally hell will freeze over first. Sad but true.

[Commandingtripod]

More than likely at this point. Much of the issues come down to the rights, as well as the money because no one is going to chip in millions of dollars to make it work if they think it's going to have the slightest chance of failing.

Pendragon's woeful version proved that even an independent film company can't necessarily pull it off well.

Steve's work on youtube is by far the best of all I've seen, however whether he would be able to knock out a complete film of feature length is another story. He may well be able to if he had the backing and time, but juggling all the stuff that goes with moving making is another issue entirely.

[Lonesome Crow]

I don't think we're going to see a film version of this WOTW, our best chance will probably be a costume drama like BBC or ITV put on. it's just a case of prying the copyright out of JW cold dead fingers.
Maybe if the BBCs version of The First Men in the Moon proves popular enough...........

[Deleted]

I'd be as happy as anyone to see a good period WotW film, but I'm sorry to say that I'm with Rusti on this.

One may be done in the far future, but after the Spielberg and Hines films it won't be for a long time.

[Relyt]

This thread requires a much bigger frownie. Blobfish to the rescue! It's the polar opposite to the laughing sawfish.

[FALLINGSTAR]

Sept 30, 2010 0:13:59 GMT 1 RustiSwordz said:

Forgive me for being negative but i feel the chances of it happening is less than me pissing over a 6 foot high wall. That is far greater odds than the familiar million to one.

With Alien Invasion movies running amok like Skyline/ Monsters/ ID4 giving people all the glitz and spectacle they can shake a tentacle at. Spielbergs woeful half assed attempt which pissed over the story and helping a new generation think that this is the best WOTW story has to offer. It seems that the story has pretty much been killed off permamently.

It simply hasn't the impact needed to keep up with the new upstarts on the block. The story is dated, the tripod designs teddy bear mild and people out there look at Victorian England at the height of our empire in the same light as the Nazis.

Our best chance is Jeff Waynes project but that looks pretty dead at this point.

Not only that the poliotics behind the rights to the film makes the middle east peace talks look like a school yard squabble, with Paramount and Jeff wayne holding onto their rights like a starving man holds onto a plate of food. (Moot points really considering my origonal points that the WOTW franchise is a limp dog waiting to get dragged to the farmers shed.)

What do the rest of you think. Personally hell will freeze over first. Sad but true.

Those fish are bizzare but great. You make some good points Rusti but I still think it has potential if Jeff Wayne and Paramount stop hogging the rights [ notice that despite the complicated rights issues which have often been discussed - it seems that it can mainly be boiled down to these 2 - who seem to be the biggest obstacles ]. I think realism is the answer if it was made and to make it a grown up sci fi horror.

As I said in another thread - some small things might have to be changed such as updated science and the point Wells made about advanced civilizations crushing less advanced ones would have to be emphasized more so some people don't get the wrong end of the stick about the British Empire [ even though just about all countries have done bad things in their histories ].

Done with imagination I don't think the story's dated at all and don't forget Rusti the tripods have scary things like the black smoke and heatrays etc so I wouldn't call them teddy bear mild in the slightest. Not to mention people being tossed into those baskets and having bad things done to them by the Martians.

There can be graphic scenes of people choking and being heatrayed which would be far more disturbing than anything in ID4 and most other Hollywood alien invasion films.

In fact let's face it - ID4 was crap. Along with Spielbergs useless film they're pure Hollywoodised, lightweight trash. I'll watch ID4 complete with the wisecracking Will Smith but it isn't very good and I think Wells story will outlive all of them because it's in a totally different league.


As for Jeff Wayne, well maybe it's best he doesn't do a film. There's some great bits of music on the album but I'd only myself be interested in a film that had those tunes done mainly as orchestral and there's a lot of cartoonish aspects to Wayne's adaptation too [ the tripods with those big bug eyes ] - and.......and.......he's just cast Jason Donovan in his stage show. That says it all really.

[Notumyoaliketroftdonhere]

*Pines for a new WOTW and the job to be done*

[richardburton]

The BBC's adaption of The First Men in the Moon seemed to go down very well with audiences and critics alike, so that surely must help a little. An adaption of The War of the Worlds would of course need a bigger budget, but it must surely be doable.