Question:
War Of The Worlds Help Please !?!?
2009-04-01 09:52:16 UTC
can u tell me as much as you can about war of the worlds- whats it about, who wrote it ?....
best answer for the person with the most information!!
Four answers:
HipHopGrandma
2009-04-01 09:58:07 UTC
There have been two movie versions: 1953 and 2005.



The War of the Worlds is a 1953 science fiction film starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson. It was the first on screen depiction of the H. G. Wells classic novel of the same name. Produced by George Pál and directed by Byron Haskin from a script by Barré Lyndon, it was the first of several adaptations of Wells' work to be filmed by Pál, and is considered to be one of the great science fiction films of the 1950s. It won an Oscar for its special effects.



War of the Worlds is a 2005 science fiction-disaster film based on H. G. Wells' original novel starring Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning and Justin Chatwin. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp. It was released on June 29, 2005.



It is one of four film adaptations of the novel, preceded by two straight-to-video versions released in the same year and the original 1953 film version.



However, it was also a radio broadcast that took place in 1938 as a Halloween joke; however, many people took it seriously and panic occurred.



The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds.



The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast was presented as a series of simulated news bulletins, which suggested to many listeners that an actual Martian invasion was in progress. Compounding the issue was the fact that the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a 'sustaining show' (i.e., it ran without commercial breaks), thus adding to the dramatic effect. Although there were sensationalist accounts in the press about a supposed panic in response to the broadcast, the precise extent of listener response has been debated. In the days following the adaptation, however, there was widespread outrage. The program's news-bulletin format was decried as cruelly deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast, but the episode launched Orson Welles to fame.



Welles' adaptation was one of the Radio Project's first studies.
Martin P
2009-04-01 17:08:21 UTC
H.G. Wells originally published science fiction novel titled War of the Worlds in 1898.



Alien machines invade earth and the people of the earth cannot stop nor defeat the aliens. Alien technology is far superior to any of earths and the people are being slautered as Aliens take over citys and then countries. Nothing the earthlings can do stops or impedes the aliens. Then one day their great machines suddenly stop. As humans discover that all of the aliens are dying. Basically the alien immune system cannot fight off earths basic bacteria and the aliens quickly succumb to microscopic organsims.



The book was brodcast as a radio play in the early 1900's and was so realistic that people actually thought the events were happening.



There have been 2 movies made directly about the book.



Movie parodies include Independence Day and Mars Attacks.
Sarah
2009-04-01 16:58:56 UTC
Follow the link to wikipedia page all about War of the Worlds.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds
sarah_venice
2009-04-01 16:56:45 UTC
are you talking about the movies or the original radio broadcasts??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio)

is all about the radio program


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