Originally Posted by 3rdvogon

I would only watch a remake of War of the Worlds if they set it in the 1890s. It is a period piece of a story anyway and the inspiration for all the other alien invasion stories that have come along since. So why not take it back to its roots. The trouble with any alien invasion story set in the present day or near future is that the entire population of the Western World is already mentally primed for such an idea so whilst shocking it is not incomprehensible to them. But people living in the 1890s had no such preconceptions. To them the idea of creatures from another planet trying to take over and exterminate humans would have have been completely outside the box, even though we all know Wells based his story on the Euopean rush to colonise Africa few Europeans experiencing a Martian invasion would have made the connection.