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thedoctor said:
The teaser didn't make me want to see the movie. Instead, it made me wish even more that it had been a period piece set in the Victorian era just like the H.G. Wells novel.
That was the original plan. However, Jeff Wayne, who did the WOTW musical album, was determined that any period movie would have to be an adaptation of his musical. He succeeded in killing a planned version with Kenneth Branagh and Brian Blessed and nearly derailed the Cruise/Spielberg version. In the end, both sides compromised. Paramount makes a modern-day version, Wayne makes his CGI animated musical version, both parties walk away happy.
However--and I'm not sure how they did this--a low-budget outfit called Pendragon Pictures shot their own WOTW movie for release next year. The only problem is, it looks like something you'd see on public-access TV.
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