Is rival WOTWs going straight to DVD?

With no sign of exactly who is going to release Timothy Hines authentic version of The War Of The Worlds in cinemas, an interesting news item surfaces on Forbes. Could it be the movie is going to ship on DVD in June just in time to ride the coat-tails of Cruise and Spielberg? A little sad if true.

New Trailer, and what a trailer!

By no stretch of the imagination is this shaping up to be H G Wells' War Of The Worlds (that's what we have the Pendragon version for), but this new trailer for the Spielberg movie is simply astounding. Great tension.

New behind the scenes photo from Spielberg movie

A new image can be found here.

New Teaser Trailer

A second teaser to the Speilberg movie is expected March 18th.

Mobile Martians

In what is sure to be the first of many tie-ins to the Spielberg WOTWs movie, Gameloft have secured the mobile phone game rights.

Gritty invasion faithful to original novel.

Rick Carter, the production designer for Spielbergs WOTWs has been telling Sci-Fi Wire that the film is to be extremely realistic in style. Also revealed, the New Jersey location is indeed a bit of a homage to the Orson Welles broadcast. Also speaking to Sci Fi Wire, Doug Chiang, the conceptual artist on the movie has been talking about his desire to keep faith with the orginal novel.

Japan sees a slightly diffrent invasion

The Japanese trailer for Spielbergs WOTWs seem to be a slightly different edit to those seen thus far in America.

Was it Martian Hackers?

Apparently hackers defaced the War Of The Worlds website for the new Spielberg movie.

Jeff Wayne War Of The Worlds sounds off again

SonyBMG Music Europe is to release War of the Worlds in SACD surround sound this summer. Full details here.

Dig that weed

Some images have surfaced taken by a local snapper on an outdoors set of the Speilberg movie. This is our first look at the red weed.

Spielberg reveals link to Orson Welles broadcast

A great on set visit report at Filmforce reveals that Spielberg actually owns one of the few surviving original scripts to Orson Welles 1938 War Of The Worlds broadcast! (He claims its the only one, though I am aware of one other earlier surviving draft.) Don't expect any great connection between his movie and the broadcast, but nice to know he is aware of the broadcast and it's part in the history of The WOTW.

Teaser Trailer

Having watched the new teaser trailer a few times now, I just can't shake the feeling that we are seeing too much of this sort of stuff? Don't get me wrong, the effects look great, but we've seen exploding buildings and flying gas tankers so many times now. Of course the trailer has to grab you by the scruff of the neck so perhaps there is some real substance to this movie. Come on Steven, give us something a bit different?

Plane crash set from WOTW

Some interesting pictures have surfaced of what is claimed to be a plane crash set from Spielbergs WOTWs.

New trailer available tonight

The trailer to be aired during the Superbowl will be online here
I snuck a look unofficially a few days ago on another site (since removed) and it certainly packs a wollop, but the scenes of destruction (expect to see an express way getting ripped to shreds) have that oh so familar feel from previous effectfest movies. There has to be more than endless scenes of destruction.

Those Martians better be good.

Another tantilising image from the Spielberg WOW.

More WOW pics. What are they looking at?

I detect a pattern here with Spielberg WOW images. Are they trying to wip up speculation at exactly what Tom and his co-stars are looking at? Bring on the Martians!

They Live!

The theatrical trailer for the Pendragon version Of The War Of The Worlds is up and running and boy is it interesting. A bit highly strung in places (I don't think its the best edited trailer I have ever seen) but the overall feel is very encouraging. And yes, Martians do move in this one. For one brief moment you can see a Martian tripod striding along and there is a pretty cool shot of Big Ben in London getting decapitated. HG Wells would have loved it. Part of the appeal of writing the book for him was certainly the satisfaction he got from knocking hell out of the established order of things. This movie is clearly going to deliver in spades.
Trailer is here.

New WOTW pictures

A couple of new pictures have surfaced and pretty interesting they look too. The more I see of this, the more I hope the Spielberg movie it is at least trying to stick to the spirit of the original novel. Looks like lots of refugee action as people flee the advancing Maritians.

Dakota Fanning in incredibly nice shock

Young Dakota Fanning, starring alongside Tom Cruise, has really nice things to say about her co-star but gives nothing away in this interview.

War Of The Worlds pictures

Some very cool looking pictures are out from the Spielberg/Cruise version.
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