Jeffrey Nelson
Screenwriter
Author Bill Warren ("Keep Watching The Skies!") left a most disconcerting post at the Mobius Home Video Forum in which he says that Starlog editor Dave McDonnell told him that he learned that the film "doesn't really exist beyond a reel or two shot to try to lure enough investors to complete the movie." This is the version shot near Seattle, set during the 1890s. I'll be extremely sad if this is true. Pendragon's recent press release indicated that the film was mostly complete, and had already screened in front of enthusiastic test audiences, that it would play theatrically at the end of April, and that the DVD distribution was already locked in:
Pendragon's WAR OF THE WORLDS
WAR OF THE WORLDS news links
Pendragon's WAR OF THE WORLDS
WAR OF THE WORLDS news links