New War of the Worlds movie?

http://www.syfyportal.com/article.php?id=1736

this article is not good.. the aliens wont be from mars

Based on what I have been able to piece together from various websites, the Spielberg and Cruise interviews on Dark Horizons and my knowledge of the book, I think I have the plot figured out!

Spielberg has expressed a geniune admiration for the book. This heartens me into thinking he will remain as close as possible to the story, if NOT to the idea that the invaders are Martians.

The interview with the artists on the aint it cool website say the "aliens" are from another (perhaps parallel) dimension.

So here's my best guess at this point....

The aliens aren't martians. They are ??? from another dimension who have evolved into something horrific (and carnivorous!). More on this later.

They have decided to invade this planet using their advanced technology and enslave the human race for food.

The movie will follow the book, only instead of a lone man, it will be a family who is trying to escape enslavement. This provides more of an emotional story for moviegoers who might bore with only a single person trying to escape the invaders.

In the TV spot, the character of "Manny" is most likely the character of the landlord of the Spotted dog which the narrator borrows a horse cart to remove his wife to Leatherhead ahead of the Martian advance and the narrator later finds him killed by martians.

Now for the kicker...the invaders AREN'T ALIENS at all.

They are humans! Humans who through whatever circumstances evolved or where changed into the horrific creatures we no doubt will see in the movie.
This explains why the invaders would come here, because they understand us and know that we are compatable with them as a potential food supply...also a key element in Wells' book!

In the book, Wells makes reference that we as humanity are evolving into the martians, using technology for our physical needs and atrophying our bodies while our brains expand.

So this is my take on what I think the plot line is going to be. The invaders are or once were humans and they are now feeding upon us. The ending will probably be a variation on what Wells described...some earthly disease or condition that the parallel humans are unaware of and unprepared for. It won't be humans who stop them, it will be something in our environment. Some posters have already suggested smallpox, but I find this a little too predictable.

link to the japanese trailer.. much better than the superbowl 1

http://www.calibra.eclipse.co.uk/eve/video...nesetrailer.wmv

I dont know where you got the whole humans all screwed theory but from what I read its going to be a redition of the book and NOT a remake. This ideas seems to me alot better than the older Wells movie.

its funny tht spielberg has said he will remain loyal2the book yet he has also said that the aliens wont be martians..

This is the article you posted and this is a part of it, " Among those details was confirmation that the aliens invading Earth (which are not Martians) will indeed be featured as mechanical tripods, as they were imagined by the books author, H.G. Wells."

The original movie was about martians invading the earth while the Wells book was about mechanical tripods, which was stated.

So Spielburgh is actually staying loyal to book but NOT including martians.

Good to see spielberg staying loyal. Do we know where the aliens are from?

Wow - I'm impressed there is so much new footage being that they just released a trailer during the Superbowl. This is fantastic - keep it coming.

I have no idea where they come from.
If its in the book well its probably in the movie.

I never read the book but saw the original. It would be interesting how different they are.

If you do know where they aliens come from, please dont tell me.

Originally posted by Lord_Andres
Hey Holcomb, could you post us a linkn to that trialer??

Hey, sorry I wasn't quicker. Did you see that someone else posted the link?

Bumping for DBG.

dude the preview for that movie was out in decembur sad sad sad

New trailer being released tonight!!!:WAR OF THE WORLDS - News & Updates

Trailer #2 Online Release Details!

The newest trailer for War of the Worlds will premiere at 12:01 AM Eastern Time on Friday March 18, 2005 (Thursday March 17, 9:01 PM Pacific) - Exclusively on Apple Trailers.

You will be able to find the link to the trailer online, on the official site (http://www.WarOfTheWorlds.com) after 12:01 AM EST on Friday.

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War of the Worlds
Only in theaters June 29

here it is:http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/waroftheworlds/large_2.html
looks awesome indeed

Not sure what happen with speilberg and the terminal. god what a piece a shit that was. Catch me if you can was okay, but more so from performances than directing. If anyone was going to do a War of the worlds remake though, who better than speilberg. I'm kind of excited even though tom cruise is headlining it.

im really looking forward to seeing this one

Here are some direct links to all the Full Screen QuickTime versions of the Trailers for War Of The Worlds. Just right click -> save target as

Teaser Trailer 2 – Full Screen
http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/waroftheworlds/waroftheworlds-tlr2_fs1.mov

Teaser Trailer 1 – Full Screen
http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/waroftheworlds/ifs/waroftheworlds_ifs.mov

Super Bowl TV Spot – Full Screen
http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/waroftheworlds/waroftheworlds-sb_fs1.mov

That is intense. Anyone else catch the tripod??????

this movie looks soooo AWESOME!! i can't wait to see it.

I just had a second viewing. good stuff.