Ok Seriously Who Is As Crazy Over This Movie As Me... I Am Soo Looking Forward To The Two Versions That Are Being Released... Yes Speilbergs Modern One Which Will Be Glorious!!!! Aliens Blowing Stuff Up. And Even The Victorian Era Version By Pentagron Studios I Think That Is Their Names! However It Will Be Awesome Who's With Me!!!!!!!!!?

well...not me. Doesn't soon too interesting. I think you spelled "shatner" wrong, and i was wondering-does it take you a long time to capitalize every word? :m:

I must admit... it gives me wood...

The movie itself took it's damn sweet time getting here but no, I'm not at all excited about it. In fact, this year looks crap for movies.

Fuggen A !

War of the worlds will be an excellent re-make of the fantasy that freaked the nation !

...I think that "story" is the reason why aliens just dont want anything to do with us just yet ! heehe

i like any movie where the aliens try to take over. unfortunately they usually fail. you'd think if they're going to come all this way they'd have a good plan, the putzes.

yeah i remembe the first time i read that book, whens the movie coming out exactly what month and date? and have they followed the book totally or altered it?

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A true hollywood adaptation of a book is this: Everything is different but they kept the title the same

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I enjoyed the first one a great deal but I might see this new adaptation of it. You must see the first one for it is truely a classic for generations to come.

What first one? You mean the 1950's American 'we used the name but has only a few similarities to the book of the same title'? Where they stop because 'they ran out of power'?

I thought the Martians all sort of simultaneously contracted a fatal case of the measles in the '50s remake...

Can't recall, but I thought their floating, vaguely manta ray-shaped invasion buggies came crashing to a halt because earthly germs had lain the entire invasion force low.

You'd think a race intelligent enough to manage interplanetary travel would have thought of taking air samples or somethin', but I guess that's Hollywood for you !

What first one? You mean the 1950's American 'we used the name but has only a few similarities to the book of the same title'? Where they stop because 'they ran out of power'?


Yes, the 1950's was a great classic Sci-Fi film even if it didn't follow the book exactly but did carry out the general intent of the book. After all if they followed the book then they would have had to pay the author more money for his collaboration and they didn't want to do that. For its time the movie was very well made, esp. the special effects.

As was already stated the "aliens" were destroyed by a virus of some type due to the fact their testing equipment failed to detect all viruses that were found on Earth when they came. Sometimes monitoring equipment doesn't always tell you everything that you need to know.

After all if they followed the book then they would have had to pay the author more money for his collaboration and they didn't want to do that.

Sorry, Cosmic, but there could have been no collaboration, as the esteemed Mr. Wells died in 1946, and that particular film was made in 1953.

But his relatives held onto the copywright so they were the ones who would have recieved a payment.

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But of course...

You just phrased it as though saying that the film makers were trying to avoid having H.G. around the set putting his 2 cents in...

I had to look up the date of his demise to verify it, as I thought it possible he might have hung on long enough to have participated, had they desired his input.

Are you sure that the book wasn't in the public domain by that time? You know, it's only a recent change to copyrights and things where they are practically eternal. And all thanks to a certain mouse.

a freind of mine wrote the lyrics to war of the worlds

Copyright (as the law has existed) was that the person who created it was the copyright owner until 50 years after their death. One can only assume this was to stop people killing inventors and taking all their glory ;)

a freind of mine wrote the lyrics to war of the worlds


Lyrics...?

Care to elaborate...?

Thor,

Really?
I coulda swore it was about a period of time after the work was produced. I thought it was only relatively recently that it changed to where a person could exist his whole life on the proceeds of single work if it was good enough.
Keep in mind that War of the Worlds was written in 1898. This was before Mickey Mouse.

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I looked around a bit for something on this myself, but all I could find was a couple of references to something called the Wells Literary Estate, and mention that the copyright for War of the Worlds had recently expired.

Fits with the 50-year limit... but I don't know how long that time frame has been in effect.

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Ok. Did some digging and I found this:

1886: Berne Convention

The goals of the Berne Convention provided the basis for mutual recognition of copyright between sovereign nations and promoted the development of international norms in copyright protection. European nations established a mutually satisfactory uniform copyright law to replace the need for separate registration in every country. The treaty has been revised five times since 1886. Of particular note are the revisions in 1908 and 1928. In 1908, the Berlin Act set the duration of copyright at life of the author plus 50 years, expanded the scope of the act to include newer technologies, and prohibited formalities as a prerequisite of copyright protection. In 1928, the Rome Act first recognized the moral rights of authors and artists, giving them the right to object to modifications or to the destruction of a work in a way that might prejudice or decrease the artists' reputations. The United States became a Berne signatory in 1988.

So, the question is what is the state of the law in 1898 when the book was written and/or how does the law deal with books already written.

But, regardless of what is stated in this law, the US didn't become a member of this convention until 1988. Weird, huh?

I suspect that copyright for the book was not an issue in 1953. The US law at the time had an initial term of 28 years with a possible 28 year extension after that. From the date of publication, not death of the author.

Edit: Almost forgot.
Link: http://arl.cni.org/info/frn/copy/timeline.html

We also have the 45 million pound cgi movie, that will be based on Jeff Waynes musical.

Not only that, there will be over 250 merchandise items released for Jeff Waynes version too!