Worst SFX No.8: War Of The Worlds (Pendragon version, 2005)

Martin Anderson

Published on Jan 6, 2009

No less than three versions of H.G. Wells' classic tale of alien invasion hit the public in 2005, and I had high hopes for the version that was sticking to the original book and setting the film in Victorian England. I even remember signing up for the Pendragon pictures mailing list in 2004. Could it be? Could one of the greatest works of British science-fiction literature finally get its due cinematically?

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