A Martian war machine attacks in conceptual art from Pendragon Pictures' WAR OF THE WORLDS.
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WAR OF THE WORLDS Update

Pendragon Pictures has chosen to address rumors that their WAR OF THE WORLDS production was getting ready to rev up again. After the tragic events of September 11, Pendragon was fast to declare that the production would be shut down to be massively reworked.

The project's director, Timothy Hines, issued a statement on the project's rumored revival, saying, "It is absolutely not true that WAR OF THE WORLDS is about to resume. The reality is that we are massively reworking the script in the wake of the World Trade Center disaster and we will not be able to go before the cameras for a little over a year."

He adds, "It has been a very difficult time for everyone. The whole world was touched by the WTC experience. For us personally those planes slammed directly into our lives. We lost a very close friend and have been in mourning. We also watched portions of our fictional screenplay being played out on September 11th. I knew immediately we couldn't do WAR OF THE WORLDS as conceived. It was a strange time. I found myself weeping on the phone with Michele Jeffers at Foundation Imaging. They were great in that they wrote off some of the effects work we had built for WAR OF THE WORLDS. The fans of WAR OF THE WORLDS will be very pleased with the direction we are taking, but I won't just slap it out there. WAR OF THE WORLDS deserves care and time and there is no other way I could do it."

Producer Susan Goforth also commented on the matter, saying, "The script has to be rewritten from the ground up. This new version will be a true and accurate adaptation of the Wells classic story placed in its original 1898 setting. It's been emotionally difficult for us to see sets and thousands of preparations scrapped. But Timothy has made the right choice."