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8 unusual facts about The War of The Worlds


A Study in Terror

The film inspired the writing of Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds, blending the story of Sherlock Holmes and the world of H.G Wells' science fiction novel The War of the Worlds.

Albany Street Barracks

In H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, there is a mention of it: "the sound of drumming and trumpeting came from the Albany Street Barracks".

Dinowars

Now back to claim the world as their own, mirroring the original The War of the Worlds.

Puente Hills

In the 1953 film adaptation of H. G. Wells' science-fiction novel The War of the Worlds, the Puente Hills were the landing site of the first spacecraft in the Martian invasion.

Susan Goforth

Later in 2005, the two released H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds which she also starred in and produced on a low budget.

Less than two years later, the two planned to make a version of The War of the Worlds with a budget of $42 million, anchored through venture capital.

The War of the Worlds: Next Century

The film starts with the arrival of a more advanced civilization from Mars which purports to have a friendly attitude towards Earthlings.

Torpedo ram

The heroic HMS Thunder Child in H. G. Wells's science-fiction classic The War of the Worlds was a torpedo ram, and she destroyed two Martian Tripods.


Another Planet / Voyager

The song "Another Planet" contains samples from Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War of the Worlds, and was included on the CD edition of Hold Your Colour when it was released in July 2005.

ArcaMax Publishing

Titles included The War of the Worlds, Pride and Prejudice and Aesop's Fables.

Boston Science Fiction Film Festival

"The Day the Earth Stood Still," "The War of the Worlds," "Things to Come," "The Thing from Another World," "Them!," and "Zardoz."

Daniel Dravot

In the comics adaptation H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds and Scarlet Traces Ian Edginton and D'Israeli, Dravot works for Dr. Davenport Spry, an official of the British government preparing for a counter-invasion of Mars following the events of The War of the Worlds.

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: At the Mountains of Madness

Orson Welles's The Shadow and The War of the Worlds were both given as examples of influences.

Five Corners, Newark

In Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds, this is the location where an alien tripod is first revealed, by breaking through and rising over the street, as a large crowd of people watch, including Tom Cruise's character.

Gene Barry

Barry is best remembered for his leading roles in the films The Atomic City (1952) and The War of The Worlds (1953) and for his portrayal of the title characters in the TV series Bat Masterson and Burke's Law, among many roles.

The Man from Planet X

Invaders from Mars, The War of the Worlds, both released in 1953, and The Thing from Another World (1951), all began production around the same time this film was made.

The Second Invasion from Mars

This short story heavily inspired a 1981 Polish movie The War of the Worlds: Next Century written and directed by Piotr Szulkin.

Timothy Brinton

Sometimes cited as a British parallel to Orson Welles's radio production of The War of the Worlds, Alternative 3 purported to be an investigation into Britain's contemporary "brain drain." Alternative 3 was supposedly a plan to relocate a cross section of Earth's scientific and philosophical population to Mars in the event of climate change or some other planetary catastrophe.

Two Planets

Lasswitz's depiction is more reflective of the views of these astronomers than those of other science fiction stories of the era dealing with the planet, including H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, Edwin Lester Arnold's Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation and Edgar Rice Burroughs's tales of Barsoom, all of which were all written in the wake of Lasswitz's book.

Zieper v. Metzinger

The film was similar in its fictional portrayal of supposedly real events to The War of the Worlds and The Blair Witch Project.


see also

Star-Begotten

The dialogue of Star-Begotten makes brief and cursory references Wells's earlier novel The War of the Worlds, referring to it as having been written by "Jules Verne, Conan Doyle, one of those fellows".