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Two decades ago released in the hexagonal rooms the impressive “War of the Worlds” of Steven Spielberg. Back on a real essential for science fiction and cinema in short.
Even coming from one of the greatest filmmakers in the world, nobody expected such a blast, but it was very real … 20 years ago today, Steven Spielberg amazed spectators with the extraordinary war of the worlds, absolute classic of the SF. A nightmare extra-terrestrial invasion on the big screen which has haunted millions of spectators around the world.
Second cinematographic adaptation of the fantastic novel by Herbert George Wells after that produced by Byron Haskin in the 1950s, the War of the Worlds marked the reunion of Steven Spielberg with Tom Cruise, still in the Science Fiction register, three years after Minority Report. And what reunion …
A very young Dakota Fanning in the credits
Twilight, frightening, captivating, poetic, poignant: world war, classic instant SF, is a fascinating work. A crazy feature film which is released, with striking images which, two decades later, still remain well rooted in mind.
In this incredible show that is the war of the worlds, with a virtuoso staging and breathtaking special effects, Tom Cruise embodies Ray Ferrier, a divorced docker who is entrusted with his children’s guard by his ex-wife and the husband of the latter. A few minutes after a powerful storm broke out, he attended, with his little girl (a very young Dakota Fanning) and his biggest boy, to a spectacle that will forever upset his life …
4 million spectators embarked in the War of the Worlds of Spielberg
Extraordinary entertainment, as visually crazy as moving, the war of the worlds cannot leave anyone indifferent. Nearly four million French spectators have vibrated like this new masterpiece of Steven Spielberg (who does not like the end!). If you have never seen this essential science fiction, quickly catch your delay: it is available on the MyCanal platform.
The trailer of “The War of the Worlds”:
