THE MARTIANS ARE COMING! (AGAIN)

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THE MARTIANS ARE COMING! (AGAIN)
Wednesday, March 17 2004

Even as the Earth's invaders of Mars, Spirit and Opportunity, continued to beam down pictures of their progress in reconnoitering the red planet, word was being circulated in Hollywood Tuesday that Steven Spielberg is planning to direct a new movie version of H.G. Wells's 1898 classic The War of the Worlds, in Martians invade Earth. (More famous than Wells's sci-fi classic is the 1938 radio dramatization starring Orson Welles, which is said to have touched off panic in some parts of the country.) The Spielberg drama will reportedly star Tom Cruise, bringing the two together for the first time since 2002's Minority Report.