Martians ...yes they are

[dalekhunter]

I saw this on a sypnosis page on an official war of the worlds site ...it states that they are indeed martians!!


After a few go-rounds giving benevolent aliens their due ('E.T.,' 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'), Steven Spielberg tackles a story where the extraterrestrials most definitely do not come in peace. In this retelling of the H.G. Wells classic, Spielberg joins forces with Tom Cruise to depict the harrowing struggle for the survival of humankind through the eyes of one family. Ray Ferrier (Cruise) is a working-class divorced dad living in New Jersey. He's estranged from his family, he's self-centered, and his life is in utter shambles. When his small-town existence is shaken violently by the arrival of Martians bent on sending Earth into oblivion, he must come to the defense of his children, overcoming an even more potent enemy -- the demons that lurk within.

[Leatherhead]

I wouldn't trust that bit aboit them being Martians...News articles and magazine artickes will do stuff like that. I've seen several inconsistencies since they started talking about this movie. The truth is we won't know for sure (and maybe not even then) until the movie comes out.

[RickyB]

I agree leatherhead... the media isn't to be trusted here

[krys666]

Yeah! Remember when one got confused and said there will be a new Wotw set in Victorian America with music from the classic album! ;D


Those muffins!

[blasterman]

Spielberg has already said they ain't martians.

[Rob]

yep speilberg said in an interview that people wouldn't believe that aliens exist on mars. After all we've been there and it seems fairly quiet

[the Donal]

Ah- but it's always the quiet ones you have to look out for!

[<[Iron Man]>]

Well a story with aliens from Mars could still work, although obviously not like the ones we're used to seeing in the 50's films.

Think about it, if we've been to Mars, mapped it with radar, lasers and god knows what else and have found nothing. Yet these things live there and have avoided detection, wouldn't that hint at their power?

To me that's much more terrifying than aliens coming from some random star system. How would we know where they come from unless it from a nearby planet/body?

To be honest we need to wait until we see the film before speculating where they're from.

I also think it's better for us to find out while watching the film, instead of some spoiler thread or column in a magazine.

[RickyB]

After what I have read, I think that it will be left to the imagination as to where they have come from or Ogilvy's character will offer some plot relief before he is main course that evening.

[blasterman]

I'd find them being martians to be cliche' and lacking imagination.

We've been smacking around the theory that the 'aliens' are actually humans from far in the future/other dimension coming back to harvest resources.

[ClaytonForrester]

I think the point shouild be that since Wells states in his novel that these are MARTIANS,it should follow that any aliens that appear in any adaptations of said novel should BE Martians.I mean,what other aliens should appear in War of the Worlds ?Red Lectroids? Kinshasa?Get real.

[Stormdragon666]

I wouldnt care if they came from the Bahama,s.

Their still Martians to me.

[ClaytonForrester]

Me Too.

[Refugee]

Koep Says they aren't martians but the hints are there.

[Stormdragon666]

claytonforrester said:

Me Too.

WOTW without Martians is like...................ah............well........ Milk and cookies, but without the cookies.

It just doesnt work.

[Refugee]

The aliens being from mars is only key to the plot if you are exploring the evolutionary path, look what we might become line, Spielberg doesnt so they might as well have been Belgian.

[ClaytonForrester]

Well,as I alluded to earlier,it just doesn't swim.If you want to have the prestige of the Wells title in back of the project ,people SHOULD respect the parent source.Yes.some adaptation may be necessary to make it work,but altering it SO fundamentally simply because the adapter poo-poo's the concept of ''life on Mars'',is deplorable,nay,prejudiced.I think SS likes the book,but I think he likes his power as God-Almighty on the set and behind the cameras much more.and he wields it like a sledgehammer.

[Lensman]

claytonforrester said:

altering it SO fundamentally simply because the adapter poo-poo's the concept of ''life on Mars'',is deplorable, nay,prejudiced.

I completely disagree. The idea that Mars might support intelligent life was a popular one in the heyday of Percival Lowell, but today it's very much passe. The latest Mars explorations suggest the most advanced life we'll find there will be microbes-- quite possibly nothing more advanced than bacteria.

Now if the movie had been told from a different viewpoint, Spielberg might have shown Mars being used as a "forward base" or way-station by the invaders. But since we were shown only what Ray saw and experienced for himself, there was no reasonable way to include that in the story even if Spielberg had been willing to.

[Refugee]

"The latest Mars explorations suggest the most advanced life we'll find there will be microbes-- quite possibly nothing more advanced than bacteria."

But what percentage of mars have we gathered data on to make that assumption? A very small one.

[Lensman]

refugee said:

But what percentage of mars have we gathered data on to make that assumption? A very small one.

Yeah, I'd say about the same as the percentage of people who still believe that it's possible we'll find an alien technological civilization there. ;D