The budget is $128 Million dollars, actually. Reason being is because that doesn't include any of Cruise's or Spielberg's cut, as they did in "Minority Report", will collect a percentage of the earnings AFTER the film is done.
Had all the actors cuts been figured in, we'd be looking at closer to $200 M plus.
Well, unless the figures have changed I had heard that this movie was going to cost more than Titanic because it was being put into production so quickly. I don't know what the current numbers are on the project.
Bump to share this set report I read on another site.
Flash back to Wednesday night - I'm completely out of it. I've been up for endless hours and had only slept for three hours the night before and then I get the call. I'm so drained and exhausted that when I was asked to cover the set for Steven Spielberg's upcoming remake of the classic HG Wells story 'War of the Worlds' I actually declined. I had to pull my ear away from the phone when I got a blaring, "Are you freaking nuts?! This will probably never happen again!" So I said ok- the next morning after sleeping 13 hours I woke up and the first thing that crosses my mind is, "What the f--- was I thinking?!" I was truly out of my mind...
So I'm sitting bumper to bumper on the 405 in LA heading north into the valley wondering if there is any chance I'll make it in time. It's finally sinking in, I'm going to meet Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg and watch these geniuses in action. Lucky enough the traffic clears and I'm home free.
As I approached the set, for the first time in my life I'm completely star struck. There are hundreds of tents set up along the line of the shoot. As I peered down the road I could see a section of the road beaming with lights - it looked like something out of a 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' There were giant cranes and hundreds upon hundreds of people; some working, some helping out and some acting. Behind the lights, cranes and all the madness was a pair of mountains that also appeared to be lit up. It was the most beautiful scenery you've ever seen in a movie set, one can only wonder if this was also part of Spielberg's vision.
The original "despite its modern day judgment of Corny-ness" is one of my favorites still today. But I love speilburg, and I have the utmost faith that this will be an exellent movie.
I heared Spielburgh is actually staying true to the H.G Wells than doing an actual remake of the original movie.
Correct me if Im wrong but didnt the book have alot to do with the destruction of nature instead of the movie solely focusing on the alien invasion?
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