Ice Cube has to face off against an alien threat in the new trailer for the upcoming War of the Worlds remake. The superstar rapper and actor stars in Rich Lee’s adaptation of the 1898 H.G. Wells science fiction classic about an attempted Earth invasion. War of the Worlds also stars Eva Longoria and Clark Gregg.
Wells’ 1898 novel famously inspired Orson Welles’ classic radio broadcast from 1938, a 1953 film and the Steven Spielberg-directed 2005 blockbuster. In this latest version from producers Patrick Aiello and Timur Bekmambetov, Cube plays Homeland Security cyber-security analyst Will Radford, who monitors threats via a vast surveillance network. After a sinister and cryptic attack disrupts everything, Radford begins to suspect a government cover-up with global implications.
“The idea was organic,” Aiello told Deadline. “When catastrophes happen today, we experience them through our devices. That insight shaped the storytelling and tech used to create this immersive thriller.”
He adds, “For the first time ever, a studio-scale sci-fi epic has been produced using a format that places audiences inside the action through the lenses of phones, computers, and tablets. It’s a visceral, first-person experience designed for big screens in a language and format that is now natural within our daily lives.”
Andrea Savage, Henry Hunter Hall, Iman Benson, Devon Bostick and Michael O’Neill round out the cast.
“It’ll be exciting for audiences to watch the movie and ask themselves: If aliens invaded today, how would we experience it? Most likely, we’d be watching it on our phones,” says Bekmambetov. “In that way, it’s kind of a modern spin on Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds. Back then, he used radio, the most popular technology of the time, to make people believe the invasion was real. Today, that medium is the screen of our devices.”
War of The Worlds is debuting around the world on Prime Video on July 30.
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