WAR OF THE WORLDS
THE TRUE STORY
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YAHOO NEWS
Seattle, WA (PRWEB) May 19, 2012
Pendragon Pictures announces the US theatrical release of "War of the Worlds - The True Story" in limited engagement showings in theaters beginning June 14 in Seattle at Landmark Theatres’ Harvard Exit, June 22 in Bellingham, Washington at The Mount Baker Theatre, and June 21-24 in Portland Oregon at the Cinema 21 and The Hollywood Theatre. Pendragon plans to release the sci-fi monster horror movie in California, Arizona and New Mexico beginning in July.
"War of the Worlds - The True Story" follows the eyewitness account of Bertie Wells, the last living survivor of the Earth/Mars War that took place in the year 1900, as he struggles to find his wife amidst the destruction of humankind at the hands of terrifying alien invaders. Like "Forrest Gump," "War of the Worlds - The True Story" uses cutting edge visual effects to blend a modern cast with battalions of actual fighting soldiers, golden age movie stars, and previously undisclosed images of tentacled alien creatures and their monstrous machines of war.
Based on the most beloved sci-fi novel of all time by H.G. Wells, the movie is the result of a 15-year journey by Director Timothy Hines, Producers Susan Goforth, Donovan Le and a close knit group of artistic collaborators to bring the novel to the big screen. Starting as a $42-million production in 2001, Hines had submitted screenplays to and was in talks with the representatives of Charlize Theron and Michael Caine when the events of September 11th put the movie into turn around due to its themes about disaster.
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MUKILTEO BEACON
Published on Thu, Feb 11, 2010
by Paul Archipley
When Timothy Hines and Susan Goforth began production of their sci-fi movie, “War of the Worlds,” they didn’t know they were about to play David to the Goliath that is Hollywood.
Hines, a Port Townsend native and sci-fi fan since childhood, had long dreamed of filming the H.G. Wells story that Orson Welles made famous with his 1938 Halloween night radio broadcast. Some listeners who missed the disclaimer believed Martians were indeed invading Earth.
Hines and Goforth, founders of Pendragon Pictures in Seattle, attracted some Microsoft money in the late 1990s, and the project was born. They had visions of “blowing up” the Space Needle in their film, and were working to line up stars like Michael Caine, Eric Stoltz and Charlize Theron.
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REVOLUTION SCIENCE FICTION
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© Joe Crowe March 24, 2010
In 2005, director Timothy Hines did a War of the Worlds movie, the same year that Tom Cruise also did a War of the Worlds movie. He said he didn't like it, now he says he's calling a do-over.
RevSF's Geek Curmudgeon Rick Klaw didn't like it, either. He said in his review, "Black and white gives way to color as the narrator finishes. Little did I know that it would all be downhill from there."
Now Hines is doing a new version of the War of the Worlds story in War of the Worlds: The True Story. Here's movie site.
It will look like a documentary, interviewing a survivor of the invasion, and showing archive footage. Producer Susan Goforth said in a press release, "People know there was no real Martian invasion a hundred years ago, right? So laying it out as if it were actual history is a lot of fun. And it hasn’t been done this way since that original Orson Welles broadcast."
That really sounds neat. Of course, I thought a literal adaptation of the novel in a movie sounded neat, too. And so did Hines and Goforth, but they weren't happy with how the movie turned out.
Goforth said the new movie won't reuse footage or effects from the 2005 movie, and it will still be out on Amazon and Netflix. "Who are we to take it away from (the fans)? Even if it’s to have parties and laugh at it. But I can already see that the new remake, War of the Worlds – The True Story, is going to be a lot more satisfying as a representation of Wells. At least that’s our plan.”
Hines said the new effects will be "way more steampunk." He said he made "neophyte mistakes" on the first one. He said,
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ANIMATION WORLD NETWORK
By Matt Kapko | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 7:21 am | AWN News
Seattle, WA – A new live-action movie based on H.G. Wells’ seminal science fiction alien invasion novel, The War of the Worlds, is in post production, it was announced today by Pendragon Pictures. The new movie, titled War of the Worlds – The True Story, has a planned release date of October 2010.
Pendragon Pictures is an independent motion picture company that released a previous movie version of War of the Worlds in 2005. Their earlier production grossed $7 million dollars and sold 650,000 copies on DVD, though its...(More)
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SCI-FI MAGAZINE
SCI-FI CROWSNEST
Pendragon Pictures have launched their movie tour for the U.S. and Canada 2012 for War of the Worlds The True Story, a sci-fi/horror mock-documentary adaptation of H.G. Wells’ alien invasion memoirs.
13/07/2011.
Contributed by Jessica Martin
The new movie was created as a faux documentary, similar to the 1938 Orson Welles CBS radio broadcast that terrified America, blurring the line between reality and fiction.
In this piece, a 1965 film crew captured the memories of the last living survivor of the war between Earth and Mars that took place c1900. The filmed memoirs, discovered in a vault in 2006, were found with hours of previously unknown footage of the alien/Earth apocalypse, the actual Martian invaders and their terrifying machines of war. This is the motion picture presentation of that eyewitness account.
Director Timothy Hines originally released a version of War of the Worlds in 2005. Though the 2005 picture grossed seven million dollars, out sold Taylor Swift’s first CD release and did one quarter of the X-Men sales in dvd, Hines told SFcrowsnest.com he considers it to be a disaster.
“The 2005 film was both rushed and severely over-scaled with highly compressed post-production deadlines,” Hines told us.
“The 2005 movie simply didn’t work,” added producer Susan Goforth.
Jump to the present. Timothy Hines has created a new movie of War of the Worlds that plays on the premise that the world knows and has as its history, that the Earth was invaded by Mars in 1900. Director Hines says, “It’s not a documentary. It’s a mock-documentary, like a CNN documentary on steroids with action and horror.” (Entire Story)
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SPACE DAILY
Seattle WA (SPX) Mar 12, 2010
A new live-action movie based on H.G. Wells' seminal science fiction alien invasion novel, The War of the Worlds, is in post production, it was announced by Pendragon Pictures. The new movie, titled War of the Worlds - The True Story, has a planned release date of October 2010.
Pendragon Pictures is an independent motion picture company that released a previous movie version of War of the Worlds in 2005. Their earlier production grossed $7 million dollars and sold 650,000 copies on DVD, though its critical reception was tepid.
Pendragon producer Susan Goforth states, "This is a complete remake, not a re-working of our previous production."
Under the direction of Timothy Hines, War of the Worlds - The True Story is being created as a faux documentary for television. Like the famous 1938 Orson Welles CBS radio broadcast of War of the Worlds, the new motion picture deliberately blurs the lines between reality and fiction.
Timothy Hines talks about the new story approach, "When Orson Welles broadcast War of the Worlds on the radio in the 30s, he presented it in such a way as to not clearly identify that it was a work of fiction. He did it for the drama. And many people took the fictional news broadcast as a real news broadcast. People believed they were hearing an actual invasion from Mars that night. We are approaching the story in the same way, as if it were an actual news documentary."
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ABOUT THE MOVIE
A 1965 film crew captured the memories of the last living survivor of the war between Earth and Mars that took place c1900. The filmed memoirs, discovered in a vault in 2006, were found with hours of previously unknown footage of the alien/Earth apocalypse, the actual Martian invaders and their war machines. This is the motion picture presentation of that eyewitness account.
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By dougevil August 14th, 2011
It's true, I have a soft spot in my heart for War of the Worlds, everything about it. I fell in love with the original Orson Wells radio broadcast when my father introduced it to me as a kid. The 1953 movie, the book (of course), the horribly underrated TV series- I even enjoyed the 2005 Steven Spielberg effort (despite the many shortcomings).
The real aura and magic come from the original broadcast, though, the first inklings of the "mockumentary" and what would become cinema-verité. It's in that spirit that Timothy Hines set out to make his own take on the War of the Worlds story.
Here's where it gets confusing however.
Timothy Hines made a version of the story in 2005 for Pendragon Pictures, but he was never happy with the finished product. When speaking to SFCrowsnest.com Hines stated, “The 2005 film was both rushed and severely over-scaled with highly compressed post-production deadlines”.
With that in mind Hines has created a remake/addendum to his first effort, this time titled War of the Worlds: The True Story (also for Pendragon Pictures). Shot as a documentary, The True Story focuses on a 1965 interview with the last living survivor of the war between Earth and Mars that took place in 1900. Using documentary tools such as re-enactments, found footage and interviews, War of the Worlds: The True Story looks to create a History Channel style look back at the bloody war that could have been.
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UNDEAD BACKBRAIN
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
by Robert Hood
One of the most influential novels in my personal development as both a writer and an obsessive SF/horror geek was H.G. Wells’ alien invasion classic War of the Worlds (1898) — a novel that created the template for such things. There have been several attempts to re-create it in various audio-visual formats, of course — the most famous being the radio drama by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the Air, which was broadcast on 30 October 1938 and infamously caused mass panic across the States when scores of people tuned in after the opening disclaimer and believed the fictional news reports were for real.
In the cinema the best known versions of Wells’ novel have been:
the 1953 creature-feature directed by Byron Haskin and starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson, in which the plot is moved to the States, the key POV character becomes a fairly typical 50s scientist rather than a low-level journalist, and the Martian tripods are re-imagined as flying saucers on legs of invisible energy; and
Steven Spielberg’s much-maligned 2005 blockbuster, still set in the US, with Tom Cruise as the POV character — this time a working-class heavy-equipment operator with poor family skills who finds some redemption through adversity — and beautifully rendered Martian machines with the appropriate three legs but a rather logically flawed if visually spectacular “origin”.
Among the film versions that have appeared over the past few years, one of the more interesting was made for Pendragon Pictures by Timothy Hines in 2005 and subsequently released to DVD. It remains faithful to Wells’ novel, by setting the story in England at the turn of the century and not playing around with the Martians and their machines, or with the main characters. The film grossed US$7 million — not bad for a low-budget independent that didn’t have a major cinema release — yet the director considered it a failure. “The 2005 film was both rushed and severely over-scaled with highly compressed post-production deadlines,” Hines told SFcrowsnest.com.
As a result the same crew has taken a new approach to the material, having made a re-make of/addendum to the first — War of the Worlds: The True Story
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