H.G. Wells’ Conflict of the Worlds is getting a screenlife makeover — and Ice Dice is on the middle of it. Premiering globally on Prime Video July 30, the brand new modern-day reboot of the sci-fi basic comes from producers Patrick Aiello and Timur Bekmambetov, with a twist that’s very 2025: the story unfolds by the digital gadgets we use day by day. Suppose alien invasion meets mass surveillance, instructed by smartphones, laptops, and safety feeds — a visible language designed to really feel disturbingly actual. You imply we will not even belief TikTok? Since when?!
Directed by Wealthy Lee, this Conflict of the Worlds follows Will Radford (Ice Dice), a Homeland Safety cyber-security analyst who screens threats by way of an enormous surveillance community. However when an assault by an unknown entity hits, Will is pressured to query every thing he is aware of — together with what the federal government is likely to be hiding from him… and the remainder of the world. Bekmambetov launched an announcement explaining his imaginative and prescient for the movie together with the announcement:
“It’ll be thrilling for audiences to look at the film and ask themselves: If aliens invaded immediately, how would we expertise it? Almost definitely, we’d be watching it on our telephones. In that means, it’s sort of a contemporary spin on Orson Welles’ Conflict of the Worlds. Again then, he used radio — the most well-liked expertise of the time — to make individuals consider the invasion was actual. In the present day, that medium is the display of our gadgets.”
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The forged additionally contains Eva Longoria, Clark Gregg, Andrea Savage, Henry Hunter Corridor, Iman Benson, Devon Bostick, and Michael O’Neill. The script was penned by Kenneth Golde and Marc Hyman, with Charles Ancelle on modifying. Aiello and Bekmambetov produced, and Adam Sidman served as government producer. Bekmambetov, no stranger to immersive storytelling, is understood for his revolutionary “Screenlife” format seen in thrillers like Unfriended (2015), Looking out (2018), and Lacking (2023). His newest Screenlife venture, LifeHack, premiered at SXSW this yr and holds a 100% ranking on Rotten Tomatoes.
“The concept was natural,” mentioned Aiello. “When catastrophes occur immediately, we expertise them by our gadgets. That perception formed the storytelling and tech used to create this immersive thriller.”
He added, “For the primary time ever, a studio-scale sci-fi epic has been produced utilizing a format that locations audiences contained in the motion by the lenses of telephones, computer systems, and tablets. It’s a visceral, first-person expertise designed for large screens in a language and format that’s now pure inside our day by day lives.”
Conflict of the Worlds drops July 30 on Prime Video.
Conflict of The Worlds
- Launch Date
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June 29, 2005
- Runtime
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116 Minutes
- Writers
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Josh Friedman, David Koepp, H.G. Wells
Supply: Deadline