So do I, in fact it’s the only Burton flick I like - I think It’s the fact that the Martians are just complete bastards – “We come in peace” ZAP-Zappipy-ZAP-Zap-Zap!
Why not have Tom Cruise’s romantic interest be a female Martian? I mean, you know they’re just going to turn these “alien” Martians into sexy and/or scary humans with green skin.
Huh. I always thought Independence Day ripped off Footfall a lot more than it did War of the Worlds.
And now that two months have elapsed since this was posted, we know that Sky Captain is damned cool.
Unfortunately, we also know that it didn’t rock the box office as much as was hoped.
What impact will Sky Captain’s lackluster gross have on Princess of Mars?
Don’t be daft - women are from Venus.
But if you do that, then you’ll be putting Cruise with a more lifelike CGI creation, and we can’t have that, now can we? 
And the reason the Martians just can’t overcome us is… love.
And they were looking for it in the wrong place. ::taps skull::
Oh wait, we have a smiley for that. :smack:
Martians are nothing to sneeze at.
Oh, they get their money, whether you go or don’t.
I might also ask: Why Spielberg? Why? What, at the end will the tripods split open, liberating ET and an army of cute muppets, while daiseys sprout in the fields and bolts of sunshine shoot out of everyone’s arseholes? Fuck that noise.
Star Trek did it!
That wasn’t Tim Burton’s ending. That was in the book.
As an avid lifelong H.G. Wells fan I enjoyed the first WOTW movie, but would adore a WOTW movie properly done. Correct time, place, mood, story, etc… Then maybe they might try a The Time Machine without screwing that up.
PS…I LOVED Island of Dr Moreau with Val Kilmer and friends. 
Gorsnak, you just insulted one of my favourite sci-fi books, Footfall.
Take that back, dude… 
I did nothing of the sort. I love Footfall. I never said ID ripped it off well.
Well, Halloween is coming up. Maybe I should break out my CD of the ‘38’ Mercury Theatre version of WOTW. I recommend hearing it in entirety to everyone. Of course, hindsight does take away much of the effect. But still a great presentation.
It’ll probably put paid to them trying to do a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen sequel based on vol II at the very least. Unfortunately, if that was done accurate to the book, it would trounce anything Spielberg could come up with.
Who’s betting a lot of the ideas from that wind up in there?
I hate Tom Cruise. At least they won’t have to make the Tripods too tall in comparison.
Well for those of you who want faithful there is always this version coming soon.
What I’ve read is that this was in production pre 9/11. After that day some thought they shouldn’t make the film but the film makers went ahead in secret. They gave the film a different name so nobody knew it was in production. They say their version is really faithful to the book.
I was over at IMDB and from a couple of threads with people reporting trailers being shot and so on it looks like Spielberg’s doing something along the lines of the Orson Wells version.
Sorry. Make that Welles
and another link
I’m surprised to see such violent distaste over the casting, when the directing is what’s really gonna screw this production.
Now hold on; wait for me to get behind my tomato-proof shield…there. OK: I think Tom Cruise is a decent actor when he puts his mind to it, and I thought he did a fine job in “Minority Report”. [splat. splat-splat] I know you don’t agree [splatta-splat], but what fucked M.R. wasn’t the acting [kasplat. splapity-splat], but the candy-ass pussy feel-good ending, with indeterminism (and free will, by extension) preserved and all the precogs living happily ever after in a country home. This totally wrecked the paranoid, dystopian vibe of Dick’s original story, and I walked out of the theater one pissed-off individual despite what I felt was the films excellent visuals and promising development (barring that horrific crying scene) up until the shittastic ending. Spielbung simply can’t do dark. He’s constitutionally incapable of leaving his audience unsettled after the credits. The problem wasn’t the actors [megasplat], it was the goddamn mucking with the story and its resultant sentimentality and wimpy resolution. It’s typical Spielbuggery, and I’ll have not part of it.