As if having Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg wasn’t enough, now War of the Worlds looks like it’s added Oscar winner (and all round killer actor) Tim Robbins (who I STILL say was robbed of the Best Actor Oscar for Shawshank Redemption) to the cast. This movie doesn’t even start filming until next month and it’s already starting to reek of awsomeness. Throw in Miranda Otta (Eowyn in the last 2 Lord of the Rings Flicks) and the cast is rounding out quite nicely. Now, as long as they don’t give into that stupid recent casting trend and hire Eminem to play the hip-hop leader of the alien invaders who just want to come to earth to show us how to “keep it real” then everything should be fine. The good folks over at Cinescape give us this:
Otto would play the wife of Cruise’s character while Robbins would play an astronomer named Ogilvy. The David Koepp script is a modern day translation of the H.G. Wells science fiction novel, just as the George Pal movie set the action in that era’s present day (the 1950s).
Coming off the really disappointing “The Terminal“, I hope Spielberg gets himself back on track. It’s nice to see the man get behind the camera on a Sci-Fi flick again.
