Well from the trailer it seems to me that the original story happened exactly like the book - the martians came and died.

But now 15 years later they are making a second attempt (this time probably armed with antibiotics) and Humanity has also prepared itself.

COOOL!

Believe it or not there is a lesser known sequel to War of the Worlds, not written by Wells.

http://www.apogeebooks.com/Books/Edison.html

Eh...it misses the whole point of War of the Worlds.
"In another moment I had scrambled up the earthen rampart and stood upon its crest, and the interior of the redoubt was below me. A mighty space it was, with gigantic machines here and there within it, huge mounds of material and strange shelter places. And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid handling-machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians--dead!--slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; slain as the red weed was being slain; slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth."

This looks ridiculously awesome, must see it!!

Tripod studios.....HA!

@chad So instead of man kind reverse engineering martian tech in order to defend itself we should all just embrace Jesus? Yeah, that'll sell tickets.
I understand that one of the biggest nerd arguments out there is "The book was better" or "They're missing the point of the book" but the main point is to sell tickets and make money off a broad audience. It's a different media. Lets make a video game from this where its a MMORPG and you have to run and hide in a dark corner for a month till the martians die of the flu.

I think Scarlet Traces did a great job in creating a sequel.

http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/12-426/Scarlet-Traces-HC

That blimb aircraft carrier thing was badass

It's not to say books are better or movies are better, they are different. However, certain books are different. This is one of them. A movie about Orwell's 1984 that was all peaches and cream would just be stupid. A movie about war of the worlds that doesn't include the ironic conclusion is just...well...Independance Day (ID4).

And the fact that "the Passion of the Christ" made millions upon millions pretty much puts an end to any argument that Jesus can't sell tickets (not that he'd want to).

Wow. I love war of the worlds. Sign me up!

Chad, the purpose of the original War of the Worlds had nothing to do with God smiting the aliens. The line you are referring to is just a single reference. If there was more importance to this then the entire dialogue with the insane priest would have been written entirely different.

War of the Worlds has more to do with imperialism and a narrative against British empire building that was occurring at the time it was written. The book was written as an attempt to show what an imperialist invasion of Britain would be like if it came from an infinitely more advanced power.

From Chapter One of the book: "And before we judge them too harshly, we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished Bison and the Dodo, but upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?"

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Passion of the christ made money because it was a snuff film

this proves that some things that are just crying for a sequal like war of the worlds will some how like or not get one have to admit the trailer has me wanting to see the thing

Aweeeeeeesooooooome.

That looks infinitely better than any War of the Worlds adaptation I've ever seen. Not counting League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. 2, of course.

Looks pretty decent for an independently produced anime, er animation! Isn't this like the concept of the short-lived WotW TV series except not in the modern day?

On a side note, am I the only one that thinks that if the humans can build mecha and a zeppelin carrier they should have advanced beyond biplanes and triplanes?

The Martians died because they rushed the invasion, Mars was dying so they wanted to take over Earth ASAP and because of years of living in a germ free planet they were unprepair for something most of them have forgoten about. Now in the book the humans did in fact take out a few (Thunderchild anyone?) it was just Martians main tactic was to use "The Black Gas" to kill them befor any of the human takes even got into range.

Look cools as long as it's faithful to the book

That looked pretty damn fine to me.

Not bad. Not bad at all.

I'll watch the hell out this.

If anyone hasn't already, be sure to check out the "Making Of" video on the linked website. Even more that the trailer, it makes me excited to see this.

Sounds awesome, even if it is *technically* a sequel.

Its good to see some Western animation that isn't 'G' rated, I don't think there's been one of those in a long time.

This looks tits! Can't wait to see it!

Not too shabby. Though the first Tripod design looks hilariously goofy.

Consistently excellent matte painting, but otherwise looks are all over the place. Keyword LOOKS. I'm in no way judging the storyline, which might allow me to like it.