War of the Worlds Gets The Bug Treatment

MARSDAILY

War of the Worlds Returns For 2003

"I've always wanted to see a movie version of War Of The Worlds with the massive fighting machines with their tentacles and poison gas deployment weapons striding down city streets, sending people fleeing in terror," says Hines.

Los Angeles - June 6, 2001
Newly formed Pendragon Pictures is gearing up to produce a new rendition of the H.G. Wells classic War Of The Worlds. Described as a non-campy, live action production, the latest version will be directed by Timothy Hines and produced by Susan Goforth.

Financed through an array of sources anchored with venture capital, Pendragon Pictures' production will be the first ever to feature the ten-story tall alien fighting machines.

Susan Goforth will star in the 2 hour plus motion picture along with a cast of television personalities and unknowns.

"The movie is the star," declares Hines, who feels that casting major star talents would take away the edge of reality for the audience. "When H. G. Wells wrote the first ever story of intelligent global alien invasion back in 1898, it struck a cord of terror in the imaginations of readers the world over.

"Likewise, when Orson Welles broadcast the story in the nineteen-thirties, people believed they were hearing of a real invasion. We, in a sense, are doing the same thing, on a much more massive scale." Goforth is equally enthusiastic. "Response to our screenplay has been overwhelmingly positive. The aliens in War Of The Worlds are not just creatures in big fast mindless lumbering machines.

"They are devious and cunning and know how to use propaganda to turn humanity against each other. Everyone has come away from the script telling us that when we film this story, it will be the most frightening movie ever made," added Goforth.

The $42 million dollar production will utilize state of the art effects and will be shot in the new CineAlta HD system George Lucas used for his upcoming Stars Wars installment.

Hines and Goforth are currenlty structuring worldwide distribution. "We are in no hurry to fill up the distribution slate," says Hines. "We don't need it for financing and the freedom is uplifting. Being a large scale independent allows us the opportunity to do the picture for all the right reasons." War Of The Worlds will premiere at Cannes 2003.

TERRADAILY

Mars Invades Earth
magnetite crystals in Mars meteorite ALH84001 may be signs of ancient life on Mars

Cameron Park - June 4, 2001
In the wake of the latest report on preparing for samples from Mars, the old arguments for and against have again taken center stage in this perennial debate. The basic argument against returning Mars samples is that the chances that "extant" (that is, still-living) microbes still exist on Mars are higher than NASA is making out, and that there is a genuine and serious chance that such microbes might prove harmful to Earth's biosphere -- and perhaps to human beings themselves. How accurate is this?

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