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Post by Audio Watchdog on May 6, 2017 1:02:23 GMT
What? What? What? Earlier today, the BBC announced a number of new shows, including a three-part series based on H.G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds. The show is scheduled to go into production next spring, and it appears that, unlike most modern adaptations, it will be set in the Victorian era.
The series will be written by screenwriter Peter Hartness, who adapted Susanna Clarke’s Victorian-era fantasy novel Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell for the network, as well as a handful of Doctor Who episodes. The North-West Evening Mail has some additional details, quoting Mammoth Studios Managing Director of Productions Damien Timmer as saying that while the film has been adapted many times, “no one has ever attempted to follow Wells and locate the story in Dorking at the turn of the last century.” The project was first announced in 2015, and today’s confirmation of production comes only months after the book entered the public domain.......oh yes.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on May 6, 2017 8:10:17 GMT
This could be really interesting. I think three parts is about right too, because SS GB was too long at five parts IMO and the story just dragged.
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Post by pawntake on May 6, 2017 8:48:43 GMT
What? What? What? Earlier today, the BBC announced a number of new shows, including a three-part series based on H.G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds. The show is scheduled to go into production next spring, and it appears that, unlike most modern adaptations, it will be set in the Victorian era No info on the BF adaptation yet,i wonder if they will remain true to the book? And set it in the Victorian era.
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Post by The Matt on May 6, 2017 10:53:00 GMT
This could be very interesting. This plus the new sci-if tinged cop series from the creator of Luther
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Post by number13 on May 6, 2017 16:17:25 GMT
What? What? What? Earlier today, the BBC announced a number of new shows, including a three-part series based on H.G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds. The show is scheduled to go into production next spring, and it appears that, unlike most modern adaptations, it will be set in the Victorian era No info on the BF adaptation yet,i wonder if they will remain true to the book? And set it in the Victorian era. Going by the first three in the BF H.G.Wells series, yes and yes. (OK 'The Shape of Things to Come' adaptation varies a bit but how else do you dramatise a history textbook written in the future and received in a dream in 1930?! And the adaptation is brilliant.)
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Post by sherlock on May 6, 2017 17:40:50 GMT
Nice to see some more sci-fi on the BBC. Interesting they're going with the Victorian setting, if I'm honest it's part of the book's charm (they flee an alien invasion down the M1!).
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