by Paul Archipley
SOURCE: MUKILTEOBEACON.COM
FEB 11, 2010
When Timothy Hines and Susan Goforth began production of their sci-fi movie, “War of the Worlds,” they didn’t know they were about to play David to the Goliath that is Hollywood.
Hines, a Port Townsend native and sci-fi fan since childhood, had long dreamed of filming the H.G. Wells story that Orson Welles made famous with his 1938 Halloween night radio broadcast. Some listeners who missed the disclaimer believed Martians were indeed invading Earth.Hines and Goforth, founders of Pendragon Pictures in Seattle, attracted some Microsoft money in the late 1990s, and the project was born. They had visions of “blowing up” the Space Needle in their film, and were working to line up stars like Michael Caine, Eric Stoltz and Charlize Theron. They were clicking on all cylinders. Everything was falling into place.They even ran a half-page ad in Variety, Hollywood’s bible. And that was the beginning of their undoing.
Seems someone else was working on another version of “War of the Worlds” – some names you might recognize, like Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise. They had some big backers of their own – Paramount, Dreamworks, Viacom.Hines and Goforth, a Bellevue native, were encouraged to shelve their project. “They said we’d be stepping on some powerful toes,” Hines said.They decided to row against the tide.“We put out our little lemonade stand and went for it,” Goforth saidThen, on Sept. 11, 2001, the terrorist strikes on the East Coast put another nail in their coffin.“Nobody wanted to do a movie about stuff exploding,” Hines said.And their fat budget disappeared in a week, with $42 million in promised backing shrinking to $8 million.Eventually, they managed to finish a rough cut – without the big names or big budget – wrapping up filming about three weeks before Spielberg began his movie, which went into theaters in 2005.They found themselves inundated by distributors who wanted to take the movie straight to DVD. The one they chose pushed them to finish post-production in four months, about 14 months less than they needed.The distributor also asked for a copy of the rough cut, ostensibly to show buyers what was coming.But the distributor didn’t wait for the final product; instead they boxed up the rough cut and released it, a 3/12-hour disaster.“To our horror, within a week they had printed a half million copies and shipped them,” Hines said.It took years for Hines and Goforth to live it down.“Needless to say, the barrage of criticism tests your strength, your spirit, as millions of disgruntled fans speak out,” Hines said.On the bright side, the nightmare put Pendragon on the Hollywood map. And they reached out to many of their harshest critics, explaining the debacle and winning new friends.But they were never happy about the outcome, and wanted to somehow redeem the themselves.Cut to Mukilteo.Indie film beats Spielberg to the punch.
SOURCE: IGN.COM FILMFORCE SEPT 13, 2004
Regular readers of IGN FilmForce may recall an adaptation of The War of the Worlds that was in pre-production about three years ago. (more)
SOURCE: CHUD.COM SEPT 14, 2004
You might recall reading a few years ago about a new adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic story War of the Worlds from a company called Pendragon Pictures. It was to be a contemporary version of the story, and had made it to the casting phase (Michael Caine was attached) before the events of 9/11 made a film about a city under siege seem like an idea that's not so great.
And that was the last we heard of their War of the Worlds movie.Until now. As it turns out, Pendragon has been quietly reworking the project into a faithful adaptation of Wells' novel. (more) Pendragon Pictures surprise Spielberg with shock new movie based on H.G. Wells novel.
SOURCE: SF CROWSNEST.COM SEPT 14, 2004
In news fit to set Steven Spielberg's hair on end, Pendragon Pictures has just announced the completion of principal photography on their take of H.G. Wells' The War Of The Worlds. Set in Wells' intended turn-of-the-century English locale, the movie is the world's first authentic adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic 1898 novel. (more)
SOURCE: SYFYPORTAL.COM SEPT 14, 2004
Author: Michael Hinman
It's been something like 50 years since someone has bothered to try and adapt the famous 19th century H.G. Wells book "The War of the Worlds."
Sure, there was the 1953 movie, and the 1988 television series. But then a few years ago, there was a revival to bring the film back.The group interested in doing it was led by independent film director Timothy Hines through Pendragon Pictures.(more)SOURCE: SYFYPORTAL.COM SEPT 14, 2004
Author: Michael Hinman
A lot of genre fans have been talking about the new "War of the Worlds" movie adaptation being put together by Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Cruise, but much of the H.G. Wells talk this week will likely center on a virtually unknown director instead.
Timothy Hines and Pendragon Pictures announced earlier this week that they have beat Spielberg and Cruise to the punch by filming a "War of the Worlds" independent film that has been in the planning process for the last three years. (more)SOURCE: IMDB.COM SEPT 16, 2004
In what is likely to impinge on Steven Spielberg's plans to film a new version of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, Pendragon Pictures announced Wednesday that it has completed principal photography of their own version of the 1898 classic story. Although earlier reports had indicated that the producers had halted production following the 9/11 events, director Timothy Hines told the sci-fi website SFCrowsNest.com, "We never stopped really. (more)
SOURCE: SCIFIGUYS.COM OCT 25, 2004
Posted By: Shawn Fisher
In a battle of David versus Goliath, Steven Spielberg and Paramount Pictures recently announced remake of the H.G. Wells "War of the Worlds" has been complicated by the stealthily finished production of the same material by the lesser known Timothy Hines and Pendragon Pictures. However for Hines, this is not a case of Hollywood imitating itself. Pendragon?s production actually began back in 2001; prior to the 9/11 attacks (more)
SOURCE: FANGORIA.COM SEPT 14, 2004
While Paramount, Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise gear up for their megabudget update of H.G. Wells’ WAR OF THE WORLDS, indie outfit Pendragon Pictures has announced that it has wrapped its own screen version of the alien-invasion story. Billed as “the first authentic movie adaptation” of Wells’ 1898 novel, (more)
SOURCE: SHOWBIZDATA.COM SEPT 16, 2004
In what is likely to impinge on Steven Spielberg's plans to film a new version of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, Pendragon Pictures announced Wednesday that it has completed principal photography of their own version of the 1898 classic story. (more)
SOURCE: SLASHDOT.COM SEPT 15, 2004
from the honor-the-orson dept.
AlphaJoe writes "In regards to remaking War of the Worlds, Steven Spielberg has apparently been beaten to the punch by an English rival, director Timothy Hines, (more)
SOURCE: OMELETE.COM SEPT 14, 2004
Uma curiosa novidade sobre a nova versão para as telas de A guerra dos mundos surgiu hoje na Internet. Entretanto, não se trata da superprodução de Steven Spielberg e Tom Cruise, mas sim de um filme independente que foi produzido pela Pendragon Pictures e que já foi totalmente filmado!
Há dois anos, a Pendragon havia anunciado que adaptaria o romance de H.G. Wells, com direção de Timothy Hines. Porém, com os ataques terroristas de 11 de setembro de 2001, o pequeno estúdio decidiu cancelar a produção, já que ataques alienígenas ao planeta não seriam vistos com bons olhos naquela época. A surpreendente novidade foi anunciada oficialmente hoje, quando a Pendragon revelou que seu filme está totalmente rodado e atualmente em pós-produção. O estúdio trocou o título para The Great Boer War e conseguiu esconder as filmagens de todos os veículos especializados e curiosos em geral. (more)SOURCE: MOVIEFANS.DE SEPT 2004
arbeitet bereits seit Jahren an der werkgetreuen Verfilmung H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" und will diese im Frühjahr 2005 in die Kinos bringen...
Steven Spielberg (u.a. "A.I.", "E.T.") und Tom Cruise (more)
(Director, Pendragon Pictures' upcoming The War of the Worlds)
SOURCE: SCIFIDIMENSIONS.COM
by John C. Snider
It's not every day you get to talk to someone whose dreams are coming true - but that's exactly what's happening to Timothy Hines. A 20-year veteran of commercial/industrial filmmaking, Hines is best known in cult-cinema circles for writing and directing Bug Wars, a straight-to-VHS babes-versus-monsters flick that impressed investors with its creative use of desktop CGI. This opened the door to Hines' newest project: an authentic big-screen adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic 1898 novel The War of the Worlds (WotW for short). Told as a first-person narrative by an anonymous Englishman (often referred to simply as "the Writer"), WotW tells of an invasion of Earth by Martians armed with heat-rays and 100-foot-tall walking machines. (more)
SOURCE: HOLLYWOODINDUSTRY.COM
OCT 29, 2004
Production maquettes from Pendragon Pictures' new movie version of H.G. WELLS' THE WAR OF THE WORLDS will be featured in the new THE WAR OF THE WORLDS exhibit opening at Paul Allen's Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame beginning October 30th, 2004. The exhibit, which will run for one year, also features dozens of book editions, radio, film and stage adaptations. An array of artists' interpretations of the Martian invasion, including a collection of original illustrations for the 1906 le Vandamme edition of the novel by Brazilian artist Alvim Correa will be on display. (more)
SOURCE: MARSNEWS.COM
OCT 30, 2004
The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame will celebrate Halloween with a new exhibit that explores H.G. Wells' 1898 classic novel, The War of the Worlds. Through dozens of book editions, radio and film adaptations, and even a musical, The War of the Worlds continues to amaze us more than a century after its first publication.(more)
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The Elphinstones see the Thunderchild warship in H.G. WELLS' THE WAR OF THE WORLDS.
SOURCE: SYFYPORTAL.COM
OCT 29, 2004
Author: Michael Hinman
If anyone is keeping score on the dueling movies based on the H.G. Wells classic "The War of the Worlds," score another one for the independent version.
Pendragon Pictures, which is producing an independent version of "The War of the Worlds," will have production maquettes featured in a year-long exhibit at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle.SOURCE: MONSTERS AND CRITICS.COM
OCT 02, 2004
By Anthony Pearson
Pendragon Pictures have announced in the latest press release that Timothy Hines Version of 'The War of the Worlds' has already shot.(more)
SOURCE: SPIELBERGFILMS.COM
SEPT 13, 2004
As if the news of composer Jeff Wayne's CG "War of the Worlds" film wasn't enough (see above and August 30th's news), now it has come to light that a small production company out of the UK named Pendragon Pictures (mentioned in our July 12 update) has actually completed an independent adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds." (more)
SOURCE: KENSFORCE.COM
Production maquettes from Pendragon Pictures' new movieversion of H.G. WELLS' THE WAR OF THE WORLDS will be featured in the new THE WAR OF THE WORLDS exhibit opening at Paul Allen's Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame beginning October 30th, 2004. (more)
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The Writer (Anthony Piana) explores an enormous crater in the sand pits of Horsell Common in H.G. WELLS' THE WAROF THE WORLDS.
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Pendragon producer/writer Susan Goforth plays The Wife in flashbacks in the movie “War of the World – the True Story.”
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by John Gosling
February 12, 2010
Back in 2005, Steven Spielberg turned his attention to a big budget remake of The War of the Worlds. At the same time, another director was aiming to produce a version of the story, set not in modern times (as Spielberg elected) but in its original Victorian setting. Hopes were high, but the end result was rightly considered a critical disaster. Now an interesting story has cropped up on the Mukilteo Beacon website, which reveals the full story behind director Timothy Hines' attempt to film The War of the Worlds and the fascinating news that...(more)
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