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The BBC has unleashed the first trailer for its reboot series of the H.G. Wells classic “War of the Worlds“. Rafe Spall and Eleanor Tomlinson star alongside Robert Carlyle and “Sherlock’s” Rupert Graves in “War of the Worlds”, adapted by Peter Harness and directed by Craig Viveiro. The series marks the first adaptation set somewhere other than America. This time the story is set in Edwardian England and centers on George (Spall)and his partner Amy (Tomlinson) as they attempt to start a life together during an alien invasion. Betsan Morris Evans is producing with Damien Timmer, Preethi Mavahalli, Peter Harness, Craig Viveiros, and Tommy Bulfin are executive producing.
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BBC has announced several new upcoming series, including a three part series based on the novel The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. Scheduled to enter production next year, the show will be set in the Victorian era. The series is penned by Peter Hartness (Doctor Who). Mammoth Studios’ Director of Production, Damien Timmer, has said that even though the book has been adapted several times before the series will be a fresh take on the classic, “no one has ever attempted to follow Wells and locate the story in Dorking at the turn of the century.” In the novel a narrator watches what he believes is a series of shooting stars that turn out to be metal cylinders carrying martian invaders.
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The BBC has unleashed the first trailer for its reboot series of the H.G. Wells classic “War of the Worlds“. Rafe Spall and Eleanor Tomlinson star alongside Robert Carlyle and “Sherlock’s” Rupert Graves in “War of the Worlds”, adapted by Peter Harness and directed by Craig Viveiro. The series marks the first adaptation set somewhere other than America. This time the story is set in Edwardian England and centers on George (Spall)and his partner Amy (Tomlinson) as they attempt to start a life together during an alien invasion. Betsan Morris Evans is producing with Damien Timmer, Preethi Mavahalli, Peter Harness, Craig Viveiros, and Tommy Bulfin are executive producing.
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Streaming TV
BBC has announced several new upcoming series, including a three part series based on the novel The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. Scheduled to enter production next year, the show will be set in the Victorian era. The series is penned by Peter Hartness (Doctor Who). Mammoth Studios’ Director of Production, Damien Timmer, has said that even though the book has been adapted several times before the series will be a fresh take on the classic, “no one has ever attempted to follow Wells and locate the story in Dorking at the turn of the century.” In the novel a narrator watches what he believes is a series of shooting stars that turn out to be metal cylinders carrying martian invaders.
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