Tag: War of the Worlds
Royal Mint launches illiterate HG Wells coin with four-legged Martian tripod (news).
The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man were the two HG Wells tomes chosen to celebrate the life of the original science fiction author by the Royal Mint for their new just released coin (along with a nod to the Time Machine with a little sun-dial detailing around the edges). However, the new […]
War Of The Worlds (extended trailer: scifi TV series).
Here’s the Oz trailer for the new War Of The Worlds TV series mainly set in contemporary Europe. This reimagining of H. G. Wells’ classic novel in the style of Walking Dead follows pockets of survivors forced to team up after an apocalyptic extra-terrestrial strike. An impressive cast, including Gabriel Byrne, Léa Drucker, Elizabeth McGovern, […]
War of the Worlds 2020 TV series (trailer).
Here’s a new science fiction TV series – which is a Fox and StudioCanal co-production – that puts a modern spin on HG Wells’ War of the Worlds (a little like the Tom Cruise film). Following an odd SETI contact, aliens turn up and massacre most of humanity – not sure how: the attack looks […]
War Of The Worlds: an appraisal of the third episode of the BBC’s 2019 new series (TV review).
These Martians are carnivorous, even if they do turn you into a soup to eat you. Even so, travelling from Mars to Earth for a snack, living off the remnants of mankind seems an odd way to go. You would think they would need more people alive than simply cutting them down. If they were […]
War Of The Worlds (an appraisal of the second episode of the BBC’s new 2019 series).
Please bear in mind that I’m writing down my thoughts and reactions as I watch this episode. It’s very odd seeing the food being rationed out in the second episode, because something I share with HG Wells is we’re both Type One diabetics. At least he fully turned in his early 60s, because he would […]
War Of The Worlds: an appraisal of the first episode of BBC1’s new 2019 series (TV review).
You might have thought it strange that after all these years with the BBC doing historical dramas, that it took until now for them to tackle HG Wells’ 1897 book ‘War Of The Worlds’ as it was originally set, in Victorian (well, Edwardian – close enough) times, as a 3 episode series. Oddly, unlike other […]
War of the Worlds (BBC TV trailer).
Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark, Loving Vincent) and Rafe Spall (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, The Big Short) lead the cast for the BBC’s War of the Worlds alongside Robert Carlyle (T2:Trainspotting, Once Upon A Time) and Rupert Graves (Swimming with Men, Sherlock) in the first British television adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic novel. The War of the […]
BBC to bring a Victorian War Of The Worlds to the TV screen (at last!)
Peter Harness of Doctor Who-fame is making the first British television adaptation of H. G. Wells’ classic science fiction novel The War Of The Worlds for a big-time screening on BBC One next year. It’s to be based on the original Victorian story – no present-day updatings, thank the gods. Horsell Common in Surrey is […]
War Of The Worlds: The Final Season DVD boxset.
A very big improvement from season one, the ‘War Of The Worlds’ series was completely transformed from a rather turgid ambling affair to something that was much more sleek and interesting. The twenty episodes of season two commenced during October 1989 and offered more life, alien life that is, to the invaders. We actually get […]
