March 17, 2004

War of the Worlds

Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise are teaming up to remake War of the Worlds... As reported in Yahoo/Entertainment: bq. Depending on how quickly the two get a "War of the Worlds" script they like, the sci-fi epic could start in late 2005. Spielberg is now completing work on "The Terminal" with Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones. bq. David Koepp will rewrite a Josh Friedman-penned first-draft script based on "War," the classic H.G. Wells alien-invasion novel. bq. Cruise and his C/W Prods. partner Paula Wagner set up the pic at Paramount in May 2002. DreamWorks will come aboard as a partner, now that Spielberg is involved. Very cool - the story is a classic and given today's CG technology, it should be possible to do a very good remake... Posted by DaveH at March 17, 2004 12:46 PM