Guy Pearce stars in THE TIME MACHINE
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Time After Time

When director Simon Wells accepted the challenge to direct the latest feature film adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic science fiction novel, THE TIME MACHINE, he established the sort of media-friendly connection that studio press flacks couldn't make up if they tried. Yes, that's right the similarity in last name is no mistake. Wells is in fact the great-grandson of TIME MACHINE author H.G. Wells himself. Perhaps it's destiny that led him to take up the directorial reins on this project, the second adaptation of the novel (following the fondly remembered 1960 version directed by George Pal and starring Rod Taylor as the time traveler).

Perhaps destiny also took a hand in the recent scheduling problems that plagued the film, pushing its release from Christmas 2001 to spring 2002 after the Sept. 11 attacks inspired the filmmakers to tinker with a near-future New York sequence that might be a bit sensitive for some moviegoers. Whether it's some unseen force or a quirky temporal anomaly at work, the new TIME MACHINE is now set for a March release, and Wells is certain it will please and surprise fans.