What would you want from a new tv series?

[Bayne]

[glow=red,2,300]I would want a British-made true-to-the-book version if the Pendragon film were to fail to materialise. (or for those parts of the world that might never get to see it)

Would anyone want to see a new modernised tv series? Based on the Pal film like the previous tv series or based on the new Speilberg film?

Perhaps even based on the Orson Welles broadcast?

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[Stuuullaaa]

I want it more true to the original story (or a 'as close as you can get' ) follow up to the story. Im afraid that apart from the pilot episode of the tv series, the whole series was a pile of horse sh*@!!! If one is going to be devised, please make it a half decent one

[David Faltskog]

I agree that the series was piss-poor but a later episode where for some reason the team travelled back to the 53 invasion was as i remember quite good.

Aside from that it was a wasted oppertunity to expand on the whole WotW "Universe".

I would love to read a true sequel to the War of the Worlds like the sequel to the Time Machine "The Time Ships" by Stephen Baxter and "Night of the Triffids" by Simon Clarke.

D.F.

[Thunder Child]

I never liked the TV series anyway so I have to say NO to a new serie!

Johan

[Ashe Raven]

I would prefer a Dune like approach, in which we look at how different the world would be becasue of the orginal invasion (according to the book)

As I have done in my plot lines.

First part: Focusing on the soldiers of the orginal invasion

second part: 100 years since the invasion. The Greater British Empire rules the world with an iron fist and assitance from annexed Martian Techonlogy. A race between the three major powers of the empire to invade the Martian homeworld gets underway, and a greater conspiracy comes to light.

Third Part: Occupied Earth. The trap is reveal. Earth invades an empty Mars..., whilst the Martians return from the Frozen North on Earth to finish what they started and occupy Earth once andf for all.

It would act more like an alternate history, utilizing a more docudrama approach (like in Battlestar Galactica, 24, Law and Order motif), Certainly it would show the darker side of human nature, that after all our advances.. we are in fact no better than the Martians.

Call it cold, but I like dark, cold and gritty.

[Zoë]

i think i would like to see a series thats like the book thats the length of a proper series 13 - 24 episodes. or perhaps one of them thats about 45 mins/1 hour and theres a few of them about 6 maybe.

[Stewymartian]

something with a budget for a start!

Perhaps a documentary style approach would work, like a fake science or history series (like horizon or Timewatch, for example), exploring a true to Wells' version of WOTW but from a modern perspective.

[Emanuel]

Why not a TV series where we invade Mars in response to the attack.

[Bayne]

[glow=red,2,300]That could be very cool (If the BBC want to buy the rights to my Post-war stories they should contact me ASAP!)
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[Geis]

I always thought that the weakest element of the show was that no one remembered the 1953 invasion. The "post traumatic stress amnesia" just didn't cut it.

The story would have worked if the war had happened in 1914. The First World War would have been the First Interplanetary War. In that way, the vast majority of people would have know about the war but would have no first hand knowledge of it. There would only be a few old veterans who would remember what it was like to fight in The Great War.

I would have bought that.

[Bayne]

[glow=red,2,300]Yes, a big government conspiracy would make more sense and be more plausable...

Or better yet, publicly acknowledging the earlier invasion... but have everyone disbeliving any new threat as impossible.. brings in the whole complacency theme.

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[ClaytonForrester]

To begin with,if this new series WERE to be made based on the 1953 film,I would want storyline accountability for one thing.Everyone all over the world except a few select brains and military forget that the war ever happened?!? BUSHWAH!How in the name of God is THAT gonna happen?There is going to be personnel ,collateral and equipment loss that would amount in the trillions of dollars.Other factors would also have an effect on human civilization,such as that old favorite ,culture shock.Our first contact encounter turns into a slaughterhouse,with us as the victims.Nobody,and I mean NOBODY,is going to forget something like that inside of 1 or 2 generations,like in the TV show,unless there was a massive drugging/brainwashing of most of the national population,and even that concept is so unwieldy as to be impossible to execute effectively.Another factor to consider is the tendency of us homids to want little keepsakes of things that stand out in our experiences...so no matter how hush-hush the Government tries to make the whole debacle,folks are going to take home SOUVENIRS!I have no doubt that there are many survivors who grabbed the odd bit of Martian, or War machine tech, that was lying around undetected by the military,and hauled them away as small victory prizes.Wouldn't you?The whole thing about collective amnesia is just too silly,not to mention insulting to the human ability to cope with the unknown,and I would urge them not to repeat this inane concept again...if they want people to watch the show.

ClaytonForrester.

[Gnorn]

I've seen little to none movie spin-offs which made a great tv-show. Only Alien Nation, London's Burning (never seen the movie though) and M*A*S*H spring to mind at the moment. So, please, no new tv-series based on any WotW movie whatsoever.

-Gnorn

[malfunkshun]

i wouldn't want to see any type of War of the Worlds TV series, unless it was a mini-series which was based upon the book.

i've seen what happens when somebody tries to turn WOTW into a tv series, and i know there are a lot of fans, but i thought it was just godawful.

if i were in charge of making a series, i would make it a period piece about a 2nd invasion which occured a few years after the first, NOT set in modern times... maybe the 1920's, or right in the middle of WWI. that might be interesting, since the entire world is already geared up for war, and all of a sudden a 2nd wave of martians lands. then it could be an ongoing conflict in which the two sides are a little bit more equally matched.

however, i believe that a huge flaw with any type of tv series based upon WOTW would be the lack of any characterization on the side of the Martians. i just don't think its pheasable to try to make individual Martians into characters, say like... V, when both sides (aliens and humans) had principle characters who contributed to the plot. if the entire series were just about humanity's struggle against the martians, with no Martian character development (which I think would result in abysmal failure if it were tried, thats what makes the martians terrifying, their infinite strangeness) then i think it would get stale pretty quickly.

so, IMO, making a tv series about WOTW just wouldn't work at all. a mini series, maybe, about a 2nd invasion, possibly 5 episodes, 10 hours total. set during the 1st world war. that might be cool

[Herulian Martian]

ClaytonForrester said:

To begin with,if this new series WERE to be made based on the 1953 film,I would want storyline accountability for one thing.Everyone all over the world except a few select brains and military forget that the war ever happened?!? BUSHWAH!How in the name of God is THAT gonna happen?There is going to be personnel ,collateral and equipment loss that would amount in the trillions of dollars.Other factors would also have an effect on human civilization,such as that old favorite ,culture shock.Our first contact encounter turns into a slaughterhouse,with us as the victims.Nobody,and I mean NOBODY,is going to forget something like that inside of 1 or 2 generations,like in the TV show,unless there was a massive drugging/brainwashing of most of the national population,and even that concept is so unwieldy as to be impossible to execute effectively.Another factor to consider is the tendency of us homids to want little keepsakes of things that stand out in our experiences...so no matter how hush-hush the Government tries to make the whole debacle,folks are going to take home SOUVENIRS!I have no doubt that there are many survivors who grabbed the odd bit of Martian, or War machine tech, that was lying around undetected by the military,and hauled them away as small victory prizes.Wouldn't you?The whole thing about collective amnesia is just too silly,not to mention insulting to the human ability to cope with the unknown,and I would urge them not to repeat this inane concept again...if they want people to watch the show.

ClaytonForrester.

I agree with you Clayton. What Hollywierd shoudl have done was make a more realistic War of the Worlds series in which Earth has not only appropriated but unravelled Martian technology. Then have Harrison Blackwood, Norton, Suzanne, Iron Horse and General wilson have to fight against another Martian threat. In that version of 1988 Earth, we would have the means to effectively fight the Martians trying to conquer Earth again.

[Herulian Martian]

AsheRaven said:

I would prefer a Dune like approach, in which we look at how different the world would be becasue of the orginal invasion (according to the book)

As I have done in my plot lines.

First part: Focusing on the soldiers of the orginal invasion

second part: 100 years since the invasion. The Greater British Empire rules the world with an iron fist and assitance from annexed Martian Techonlogy. A race between the three major powers of the empire to invade the Martian homeworld gets underway, and a greater conspiracy comes to light.

Third Part: Occupied Earth. The trap is reveal. Earth invades an empty Mars..., whilst the Martians return from the Frozen North on Earth to finish what they started and occupy Earth once andf for all.

It would act more like an alternate history, utilizing a more docudrama approach (like in Battlestar Galactica, 24, Law and Order motif), Certainly it would show the darker side of human nature, that after all our advances.. we are in fact no better than the Martians.

Call it cold, but I like dark, cold and gritty.

I like your idea!

[paco417]

As much as some people dislike the series when it was on... ok some bits were ok and some elements did have maybe a sinister feel to them, do i feel that a new series could and should be made?

not really no as i feel they made a mickey mouse job on the last one stating firstly they were martians and then from somewhere else! MAKE YOUR MIND UP!
if a series ever gets made (god help us!) it must stick as close to the book as possible, who knows maybe a follow on of what happened after the war ?

[Jace]

What I would want is the creators of the original first season of the series to be given the chance to finish what they started. Seriously. With the original actors, too.

Seriously.

[Bayne]

[glow=red,2,300]It would be interesting to see what they originally wanted to do. Sure the tv series was far from the book (but then so is the SS film version from the looks of things) its also true that for many years 95% of the WotW fans on the net were fans of the tv show!

On the whole though, if there is a new tv series I'd like it to be either a serialised version of the book (or maybe even based on Wells original serial version!) or something spun off from the old tv series or one of the films. It'd be nice to see some cameos of course.
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[RickyB]

I think the martians should stand on each others shoulders and put a raincoat on and then carry out a series of pranks around London to undermine the British confidence. They then set about changing the font of the Times from Times to Arial. Then the aliens unleash their masterplan. To open the McDonalds restaurant chain. Only instead of cow burgers, they make their burgers from the meat from anyone called McDonald.