Spielberg and Cruise plan new War of Worlds - Welles's Wells to be filmed

[Johnny Dale]

www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1171975,00.html

[R Kadin]

A better homage would have been to help complete TOSOTW. Perhaps he might be open to moral suasion and would agree to see a miniscule portion of the proceeds of this project go towards Welles's last cinematic opus.

[Citizen K]

Was this the same S. Spielberg who paid thousands of dollars for an original Rosebud sled prop but who refused to give any money for Welles to help him get one of his projects off the ground?

[R Kadin]

Same guy, but pre-Schindler. Perhaps he's somewhat older, wiser - and maybe even a little ready to atone for not having done what he could have so many years ago. Then again, he did go that route with Kubrick and "AI" only to come away smarting from the outcome; so the idea, coming at it from the Spielberg side, could be dead in the water.

On the Cruise side, though, he's constantly looking to "deepen" his legacy (although, there, too, his Kubrick experience in a comparable bid was, uh, something short of an unalloyed success).

Guess that leaves us with the Martians. After all, they're finding themselves in the news these days and, true to our times, are probably looking to hire a PR agency to help them work their image. Maybe a bunch of them could offer to be photographed as the last of the Samurai-Martians riding into battle on Spielberg's "Rosebud" sled along the newly-discovered ice of one of their polar caps. On eBay alone, that oughta bring the prop's value back to break-even for SS while giving the TC franchise a whole new extraterrestrial target demographic to exploit.

But isn't it just like the Welles boys, H.G. and Orson, to have foretold the truth all along: in the end, man's best friend is his Martian?

[R Kadin]

All Right! Houston, we have Water!!

-Mars rover "Opportunity" sends postcards from seaside before filing re-zoning plan for condos.

-Dasani launches subsidiary to to re-sell the stuff to locals at modest billion% mark-up; plans to compete on price.

-Ted Kennedy seeks FDA inquiry into mystery liquid, water: Thunders, "It's not scotch, vodka, or beer - none of the official food groups!"

-Evidence of former Bin Laden hideout seen in latest rover image.

I'm telling you, fellow Wellesians, this Mars thing is heating up and, if we play our cards right and get in on the ground floor, we could wind up with enough stash to complete 100 TOSOTWs. OW must have known this was going to happen all along.

We could probably enlist Beatrice's lawyer to stake our claims, no problem. With that Oscar thing now behind him, he's likely got some time on his hands.

As for that business about the Martian atmosphere being mainly CO2? And that's different from a summer's day in L.A. - how?

Dammit, I'm getting tired of doing all the thinking around here...

[Citizen K]

Don't worry, R Kadin, you don't have to keep thinking all the time. Hollywood writers do exist and they have thus proved Descartes wrong.

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it will just be another project with welles flavoring, and very little of that.

it's just like when you buy maple syrup today. the bottle says 'SYRUP.' and if you look closer it says 'with maple flavoring.' but the bottle looks exactly like it used to when it was still 'maple syrup.'

they should take that money and donate it to the munich museum and really have it doing some good instead of turning out another cardboard hollywood film that will make millions but have no cultural worth, and further dilute the welles ouvre.