H.G. Wells ’ War of the Worlds has been adapt for other media before — notably for the 2005 Spielberg pic , and the infamous 1938 Orson Welles radio broadcast . Now a new idiot box version is in the employment , written by Peter Harness ( Doctor Who , Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell ) .
UK internet site Broadcast Now reportsthat production party Mammoth Screen is developing the level into mini - series “ faithful to the period and set ” of the 1897 novel . It wo n’t be Tom Cruise racing around modern - day New Jersey . The best - known former video version of War of the Worlds — a Canada - US carbon monoxide gas - production which aired in the previous eighties — used the original storey for a jumping - off point for what was also a contemporaneous setting .
This Modern Worlds adaptation is timed to coincide with the work ’s imminent entryinto the public domain , asCinemablendnotes :
Mammoth currently has its financial support secured in the U.K. , and it ’ll before long be actively seek out a caller in the U.S. to be a cobalt - manufacturer on the project . The hunting process , as well as the growth process , can be as stringent as possible , since The War of the Worlds wo n’t be going into output until the former part of 2017 , after the novel enters the public domain at the end of 2016 and Paramount no longer has right of first publication privileges with it .
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