{"id":6372,"date":"2004-09-14T11:16:28","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T18:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/09\/14\/spielberg-beaten-to-the-punch.html"},"modified":"2004-09-14T11:16:28","modified_gmt":"2004-09-14T18:16:28","slug":"spielberg_beate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/14\/spielberg_beate.html","title":{"rendered":"Spielberg beaten to the punch"},"content":{"rendered":"

A straight period adaptation of The War of the Worlds<\/a><\/em> has finished filming<\/a> (in, as one can imagine, high secrecy) and is set to be released in 2005, beating out the (updated) Spielberg\/Cruise version. Neat.<\/p>\n

Of course, it might also be an awful movie, but I’m glad someone at least considered doing the “authentic” setting for the tale. And the trailer for the other flick they have coming out, Chrome, <\/em>looks moderately interesting.<\/p>\n

(Speaking of interesting<\/a> trailers<\/a> …)<\/p>\n

(via Fred<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A straight period adaptation of The War of the Worlds has finished filming (in, as one can imagine, high secrecy) and is set to be released in 2005, beating out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6831,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/22\/trailers.html","url_meta":{"origin":6372,"position":0},"title":"Trailers","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 22-Dec-04 9:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've had my doubts about the upcoming Spielberg\/Cruise War of the Worlds -- but this trailer certainly hits all the right notes, and the very best thing they could have...","rel":"","context":"In "DC Media (DCEU, DCU)"","block_context":{"text":"DC Media (DCEU, DCU)","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/dc-cinematic-univese"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10518,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/30\/indiana_jones_and_lucas_l.html","url_meta":{"origin":6372,"position":1},"title":"Indiana Jones and “Lucas Likes the Script so We’re DOOOOOOMED!”","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 30-Dec-06 11:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"George Lucas has announced that filming on the next Indiana Jones film will commence next year, to be in theaters May 2008. 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