War Of The Worlds TV Series Gets Go-Ahead

 

David and Cochran are on board to reboot War of the Worlds as a live-action TV series. First adapted for the screen in 1953 by director Byron Haskin, before Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise engineered a modern redo some five decades later, it’s understood this fresh take will circle back to H.G. Wells’ indelible sci-fi novel.

One of the frontrunners of the alien invasion sub-genre, Wells’ classic imagines a scenario in which extra-terrestrials seek to seize control of Earth, first burying massive war machines deep beneath the planet only to activate them generations later by beaming energy capsules into our atmosphere. What follows is a full-blown war against the aliens wherein humanity is hopelessly outgunned. Pushed to the brink of extinction, it’s only when the invading aliens breath in Earth’s natural microbes that they fall.

MTV didn’t disclose exactly when it will begin its casting spree but we do know this particular version of War of the Worlds has enlisted Jeff Kwatinetz and Josh Barry to executive produce, the latter of whom has a long-time connection with the genre classic after his grandfather, Gene Barry, starred in the 1953 adaption.