War Of The Worlds - (TV Series - Fox)

[Tricky]

The best War Of The Worlds adaptation I've seen was around 12 years ago when I went to see Jeff Waynes musical version live, there was CGI footage on the big screens behind showing the story while the live orchestra played the album, a holographic Richard Burton narrated and they had a huge martian tripod on stage with various pyrotechnics going off around it and it shooting red lasers out into the audience from the heat ray. That was fantastic. At that point Justin Hayward was still doing the singing as well, I think he's retired now though so it's a different singer for the live shows. As an aside have any of you fellow UK posters been to the Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds immersive experience in London? From what I've heard it's very good, I'd like to go when things go back to normal.

[Neil]

The best War Of The Worlds adaptation I've seen was around 12 years ago when I went to see Jeff Waynes musical version live, there was CGI footage on the big screens behind showing the story while the live orchestra played the album, a holographic Richard Burton narrated and they had a huge martian tripod on stage with various pyrotechnics going off around it and it shooting red lasers out into the audience from the heat ray. That was fantastic. At that point Justin Hayward was still doing the singing as well, I think he's retired now though so it's a different singer for the live shows. As an aside have any of you fellow UK posters been to the Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds immersive experience in London? From what I've heard it's very good, I'd like to go when things go back to normal. Wasn't even aware of that! £50+ per person - https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/ne...ive-experience

[Tricky]

Wasn't even aware of that! £50+ per person - https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/ne...ive-experience I'm happy to pay that when it opens back up again after COVID as I'm a big fan of the Jeff Wayne interpretation. The VR part sounds good, there is a part in the very first scene of Half Life Alyx where a Combine tripod clambers over the rooftops above you making a lot of noise and it makes you jump out of your skin in VR especially as the tripod towers above you, I imagine this has a similar impact at times. Skip to 3:50 to see it

[Rottedfreak]

I'd say the BBC and Spielberg adaptations were beset by executive meddling. I'll just sit back and wait for a potential found footage War of the Worlds adaptation.