By RAY KELLY Some engaged in the Martin Scorsese-led debate about the merit of Marvel superhero films have wondered what Orson Welles would have thought. Here is a more relevant question: How would Welles have felt about being a comic book hero? The premise of the forthcoming graphic novel Orson Welles: Warrior of the Worlds […]
Director Bharat Nalluri may have found his John Houseman for a big screen drama based on the 1938 The War of the Worlds radio broadcast. Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, Sherlock) is currently attached to We Interrupt This Program play Houseman, according to a report on ThatHashTagShow.com. Deadline revealed last summer that the script would focus […]
By GABRIELLA ALTCHEK Indiana University newsroom Indiana University Libraries’ Lilly Library is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the 1938 The War of the Worlds broadcast by openly streaming its recent digitization of the infamous radio event taken directly from Orson Welles’ personal lacquer disc recordings. The Lilly Library’s collection features Welles’ radio scripts, production material […]
Given that the character of Professor Richard Pierson of the Observatory at Princeton played a key role in The War of the Worlds broadcast, it seems fitting that the Princeton Public Library host a celebration of the 80th anniversary of the infamous radio broadcast. Hannah Schmidl of the Princeton Public Library and A. Brad Schwartz, […]
Director Bharat Nalluri (The Man Who Invented Christmas) is set to helm We Interrupt This Program, which looks back at the making of the famed The War of the Worlds radio broadcast. According to Deadline, Sean Sorensen’s script explores two dramas unfolding on the night of October 30, 1938. The most well-known is the infamous radio broadcast, […]
To commemorate The War of the Worlds radio broadcast, the West Windsor Arts Council in New Jersey is gearing up to launch a new public arts project and install at least 10 Martian-themed sculptures around town over the next few years. It hopes to have the first sculpture in place in time for the broadcast’s 80th […]
Recollections by Welles, his eldest daughter, listeners, and telephone operators have appeared here.
The script reportedly chronicles the stormy struggle behind the scenes between Welles and his Mercury Theatre partner John Houseman.
The script was acquired from the estate of radio actor James E. Jewell.
The Gravitas Ventures film arrived in theaters and in-demand on August 4.
The film will be available on demand and in select theaters on August 8.
“The Death Triangle” episode of “The Shadow” uses a fake news bulletin.