H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds has inspired countless adaptations, including a new film featuring Eva Lonoria and Ice Cube. This latest version utilizes a grounded footage style to portray the alien invasion while emphasizing themes of surveillance and data harvesting. The approach mimics real-life news broadcasts, reminiscent of Orson Welles' iconic 1938 radio play. While the trailer heavily emphasizes its modern themes, the use of various footage styles, although not original, effectively creates an immersive experience by simulating real events and offering unique visual perspectives.
The trailer is a touch heavy-handed in its insistence that you understand this is all about our current surveillance state and corporate harvesting of our data.
Building a film out of phone footage, surveillance camera feeds, military cameras, news broadcasts, and so on, might not be original, but it's a damned effective idea for creating the sense of witnessing real events.
Ever since Orson Welles' pre-war radio play, people have been fascinated with presenting H.G. Wells' story via intense realism.
Multiple attempts have been made to recapture that magic on screen, like 2012's War of the Worlds: The True Story, a mockumentary by Timothy Hines.
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