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unusual facts about War of the Worlds



B.J. Woodbury

B.J. can also be seen in Tek Wars, Due South, Maniac Mansion, Top Cops, SCTV, F/X: The Series, War of the Worlds, Twitch City, Friday the 13th and on various commercials through North America.

Bayonne Bridge

The bridge was featured in the 2005 science fiction film, War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise, appearing in the background several times in the scenes set in the lead character's Bayonne home, and is destroyed in an attack by aliens.

Bunchofuckingoofs

They were extras in many other T. and T. episodes and numerous other television series such as Night Heat, Captain Power, Street Legal, Friday's Curse, Knightwatch, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, My Secret Identity, Katts and Dog, War of the Worlds and Friday the 13th.

Clyde L. Herring

Herring's reaction to Orson Welles' 1938 "War of the Worlds" broadcast received national attention.

DailyLit

The first stories released through DailyLit were Pride and Prejudice and War of the Worlds.

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.

Frank R. McNinch

The controversial 1938 Orson Welles War of the Worlds radio broadcast occurred during his tenure as FCC head.

Heat-Ray

In Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds adaptation of Wells' novel, the Heat-Ray is portrayed as two bluish-white rays that appear to have a desiccating effect on living objects, such as animals, and a 'disruptive' effect on other objects.

Howell Township, New Jersey

Some scenes for the War of the Worlds 2005 remake were filmed here, and a neighborhood called Ardena Acres was recreated as a set and left standing in Universal Studios Hollywood.

Ilse von Glatz

Ilse von Glatz is an actress who played an Advocate in the 1988 science fiction TV series War of the Worlds.

Jeff Weise

(He sets the story in Grover's Mill, Minnesota, which is reminiscent of Grover's Mill, New Jersey, the site of a fictional landing of aliens in the radio version of War of the Worlds, broadcast in 1939 starring Orson Welles).

Tinarie Van Wyk-Loots

Tinarie Van Wyk-Loots (born 17 December 1980 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is an actress known for her roles in War of the Worlds and Mojave Phone Booth.


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".

The Lillingtons

The result was Death By Television, an album that took sci-fi movie-themed songs such as "War Of The Worlds" and "Invasion Of The Saucermen" and combined them with tracks that made references to other retro themes, such as "X-Ray Specs."