On-set interview from Dark Horizons!

[Rust]

Check it out, man!

www.darkhorizons.com/news05/warworlds.php


"What's going to be new and what's going to be an homage?

Spielberg: They're going to have to see it and figure it out themselves.

Cruise: They're going to have to experience it.

Spielberg: It's nothing you can really describe. The whole thing is very experiential. The point of view is very personal - everybody, I think, in the world will be able to relate to the point of view, because it's about a family trying to survive and stay together, and they're surrounded by the most epically horrendous events you could possibly imagine."

Grooovy!!!


"How dark did you want to get?

Spielberg: It doesn't have the...

Cruise: Gore

Spielberg: ...the sense of blithe adventure of Independence Day. It's not a wonderful kind of gung-ho...it's not Starship Troopers and it's certainly not Independence Day, you know? We take it much more seriously than that. The film is ultra-realistic, as ultra-realistic as I've ever attempted to make a movie, in terms of its documentary style. But at the same time, it's full of the kind of Hollywood production values that the audience is demanding these days. And I think it's the combination, the blend, of these huge events visually and this kind of documentary story, personal story at the center of it, that gives it this very unique-

Cruise: very original

Spielberg: - approach to the material. "

Even more groooovy! Sounds a bit like Saving Private Ryan... times 100!


"And the violence?

Spielberg: There's a lot of violence in the movie, but it'll be PG-13. It's not an R-rated film; it's PG-13, but there's a lot of violence.

Are the machines tripods?

Spielberg: Yes."

YEEEEESSSSSSSS!!! Friggin' hell!

Goodnight...

[jeffwaynefan]

The news I've been waiting for - top man.

Yes, 100% Saving Private Ryan in effect, but the Germans have been replaced by Martians

H_C

[Rust]

Yeah, definitely the good news.

Spielberg debunking the assumption that it's a remake of Pal's version.
No "boomerangs with the green lights on both wingtips"! ;D
I'm sure there'll be some sort of flying machine(s), as in the book, only in a higher degree here.

Yup, this is shaping up to be quite interesting...and quite loyal.

[Rust]

Producer Kathleen Kennedy also has some nice tidbits.
www.darkhorizons.com/news05/warworlds2.php

Whoa! There be some pretty huge spoilers in there.


"Are they Martians?

No they're not Martians. The feeling was that we know so much about Mars now that doesn't really fall into the realm of realistic expectations."

Oh well... she's right.


"How realistic is this?

It's always interesting when you try to arrive an attention and POV and try and get everybody on the same page visually that's going to make the movie. We talked a lot about 'Private Ryan' and for instance the reality of Private Ryan, the feeling of being the mist of a real event. Essentially we're bringing the fantasy element of aliens but were grounding it in a very realistic theory. It has a look, I have to say, this movie looks like nothing you've ever seen. The combination of the two is quite interesting. It really does have that kind of realistic feeling of 'Private Ryan.' It's not going to look like 'Ryan' it has its own look, but we are trying to do a lot of things to give it a very visceral feeling."

She said it, Horsell!

[themotile]

Not matians, oh dear, don't know How I feel about that.

[David Faltskog]

Kwel!, they,ve got Gene Barry in the movie as well as Ann Robinson.

A nice reference to the pal movie.

D.F.

[themotile]

On-Set Interview: Kathleen Kennedy
"War of the Worlds"


"First it comes from HG Wells. He wrote an extraordinary story in 1887 that has aspects today that are amazingly relevant, so we have to give him a tremendous amount of credit. Clearly staging the action sequences - yes Steven is making that up, but so much of the story was inspired by what was in the book.
Almost the entire cellar sequence for instance is right out of HG Wells




What about the superbowl ad, where the bridge explodes, will something be added later on?

Well I don't know (laugh). We are trying to be very true to the story. We are trying to do it in a very realistic way if that makes sense.


Woo Hooo!!

[DarkElastic]

the said:

On-Set Interview: Kathleen Kennedy
"War of the Worlds"


"First it comes from HG Wells. He wrote an extraordinary story in 1887 that has aspects today that are amazingly relevant, so we have to give him a tremendous amount of credit. Clearly staging the action sequences - yes Steven is making that up, but so much of the story was inspired by what was in the book.
Almost the entire cellar sequence for instance is right out of HG Wells




What about the superbowl ad, where the bridge explodes, will something be added later on?

Well I don't know (laugh). We are trying to be very true to the story. We are trying to do it in a very realistic way if that makes sense.


Woo Hooo!!

Damn right you have to give him credit! You are doing a movie based on his fooking book!

When was it written?

[David Faltskog]

"1887"!.

They also refer to George Pal as "Powell", uh oh.

D.F.

[malfunkshun]

not martians... the cheese factor just jumped. that settles it once and for all... this is NOT war of the worlds. this is SS frikin bastardizing the original story for the sake of a buck.

[DarkElastic]

No Martians, no black smoke, no octopus looking aliens. The ending is going to be different.

I hate Hollywood!!!!

[paco417]

David said:

Kwel!, they,ve got Gene Barry in the movie as well as Ann Robinson.

A nice reference to the pal movie.

D.F.

ann robinson? didn't she do the weakest link? oh wrong one!

[Necronmaniac]

To be fair she does give a very good reason for them not being martians. In todays world, no1 would believe in them because we KNOW mars is desolate and uninhabited. The only reason HG chose martians was because at the time (or just before) he wrote the book astronomers saw what they thoguht where canals on mars which prompted everyone to assume it WAS inhabited.

[malfunkshun]

Necronmaniac said:

To be fair she does give a very good reason for them not being martians. In todays world, no1 would believe in them because we KNOW mars is desolate and uninhabited. The only reason HG chose martians was because at the time (or just before) he wrote the book astronomers saw what they thoguht where canals on mars which prompted everyone to assume it WAS inhabited.

well, if the artilleryman can come up with the concept of underground civilization, why not the martians? it makes perfect sense. their planet is dying, for all practical purposes in our day and age... dead. they had to move underground. they want to stay hidden because humanity is getting stronger, they don't want to attract OUR attention.

if they can rip the original story to shreds make up new scenes, you'd think they'd be able to make up a way for the aliens to actually be martians, even based on what we know about mars today.

[themotile]

That means it may not be cylinders unless they are dropped from orbit, some of that left a nasty taste in my mouth, including the no tentacles but hey, they tripods do have tentacles!

I dont think this is an adaptation, they have gone to far from the written path, its more like they have more homages to Wells book as apose to direct links, like the tripods were a nod to Wells rather than one of the iconic corner stones of one of the greatest books of all time, im sure it will be an ace movie, one for the collection but it is NOT War Of The Worlds.

Now the martians have been demoted to the status of 'aliens' it just run of the mill sci-fi, oh well you cant win em all!

[DarkElastic]

Necronmaniac said:

To be fair she does give a very good reason for them not being martians. In todays world, no1 would believe in them because we KNOW mars is desolate and uninhabited. The only reason HG chose martians was because at the time (or just before) he wrote the book astronomers saw what they thoguht where canals on mars which prompted everyone to assume it WAS inhabited.

But that does not mean to say that they are not below the surface, and had to move their when the surface became uninhabitable. We have not set foot on their yet, and you can't disprove the theory of intelligent life until we do. Another book Wells wrote with beings doing just that was 'First men in the Moon'.

[themotile]

I say we make an internet pact with each other, I say no matter what the movie implys the martians DID come from mars, they ARE martians and they live under ground, bollocks to Koepp and Spielberg, its our book we will believe what we want, so there.

What say you all?

"Aliens" my arse, they are bloody MARTIANS!

[DarkElastic]

the said:

I say we make an internet pact with each other, I say no matter what the movie implys the martians DID come from mars, they ARE martians and they live under ground, bollocks to Koepp and Spielberg, its our book we will believe what we want, so there.

What say you all?

"Aliens" my arse, they are bloody MARTIANS!

Screw it... I say Spielberg has gone too far and we should boycott the movie!!!

[jeffwaynefan]

What, no Martians. . . . Now that is a spoiler if there ever was one.

So who controls the tripods? - Oh I see, its a homage to someone, lets guess, scene shows tripod looming into view, hood opens up to reveal Tim Hines looking a tad pleased with the damge caused as he says ha!, now who's the master of this planet when it comes to film making'

So what are we to think now. If the film is not to include a race of creatures from Mars, then it must be some other sort of life form from the Red Planet OR other planet either in our system or another, or to really twist it - EARTH. . . Crafty but clever.

H_C

[themotile]

They are just plain old aliens, you know if I remember rightly the aliens in the 80s tv show werent martians either, they were from zartox or someting like that.

Its the worst news I could have heard, no martians, pah! That means no martian fighting machines, just bloody 'alien' tripods. What a rip.