The entertainment landscape is not exactly hurting for adaptations of H.G.
Wells’ alien invasion novel War of the Worlds.
We’ve got em’, from the 1938 radio drama that basically pranked the world into a panic, to Steven Spielberg’s underrated 2005 take that saw Tom Cruise sprinting through the apocalypse.
It’s a great story, and every era of human life has been linked with our general existential fear about our place in the universe.
But the basic bones of Wells’ tale have also mostly been kept the same through every adaptation: Extraterrestrial life arrives on Earth in …
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