We’ll find out more as The BBC develops its War of the Worlds miniseries, so stay tuned.
The BBC now aims to fix that, plotting a new 2018 miniseries true to the original Victorian setting.
However unlikely that we’ll tire of Tom Cruise running, the most recent major War of the Worlds adaptation borrowed pretty liberally from H.G. Wells’ 1898 novel.
That version moved the setting to New Jersey and Boston, and starred the likes of Justin Chatwin, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins and more.