mARTian Project sculpture contest set at ‘War of Worlds’ town
The West Windsor Arts Council is asking artists to design their own Martian as part of a town-wide celebration of the “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast.
‘War of the Worlds’ guide: Script, audio and recollections
“The War of the Worlds” broadcast is available here on streaming audio, along with a transcript of the Howard Koch radio play, the press conferences following the broadcast, and some of the letters to the FCC contained in the National Archives.
Christie’s auctioning off an original ‘War of the Worlds’ script
The prestige auction house expects the script, obtained more than 80 years ago by a newspaper reporter, to fetch between $15,000 and $25,000 when the last bid is accepted on April 22.
‘War of the Worlds’ — 10 links worth checking out by Halloween
With the 82nd anniversary of the infamous radio broadcast fast approaching, here are 10 online links worth checking out.
Observatory at Princeton, cited in ‘War of the Worlds,’ to be demolished
“We are now ready to take you to the Princeton Observatory at Princeton where Carl Phillips, our commentator, will interview Professor Richard Pierson, famous astronomer. We take you now to Princeton, New Jersey.” — War of the Worlds, October 30, 1938. A piece of Orson Welles-related history will soon be lost to history, The […]
Screenwriter Devin Lucas talks about ‘Orson’s War’
By RAY KELLY An as-yet-unproduced screenplay by Devin Lucas focusing on the Mercury Theatre on the Air radio production of War of the Worlds is gaining attention on the West Coast. Orson’s War recently won a professional table read through Coverfly — something the Southern California writer hopes will move the 112-page script closer to […]
‘Orson Welles: Warrior of the Worlds’ graphic novel finds publisher
Scout Comics is set to publish a graphic novel series that finds a heroic Orson Welles defending the Earth from alien invaders. In Milton Lawson’s Orson Welles: Warrior of the Worlds, the October 30, 1938 radio show was no joke. Following his first run-in with aliens, Welles joins an organization that defends the Earth from […]
Help University of Michigan get Orson Welles into classrooms
Update 5/15/2020: In just three days, a group of volunteers from around the world transcribed more than 1,300 letters (almost 2.000 pages), mostly handwritten, sent to Orson Welles and his network CBS in the wake of the infamous 1938 War of Worlds radio broadcast. ______ By RAY KELLY The University of Michigan at Ann […]
‘War of the Worlds’ Australian Blu-ray to include radio show
Via Vision Entertainment’s new Imprint label will release a 4K restoration of Byron Haskin’s The War of the Worlds starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson on Blu-ray in Australia on May 27. It marks the first time the 1953 sci-fi classic will be available anywhere on Blu-ray. (A Region B disc, it is unknown at […]
‘War of the Worlds’ — When Hugo honored Orson
The Mercury Theatre on the Air production of The War of the Worlds became legendary after its broadcast more than eight decades ago on October 30, 1938. Working from a script by Howard Koch and Anne Froelick, which was based on the H.G. Wells novel about a Martian invasion, Orson Welles and company created a […]
Orson Welles fights alien invaders in planned graphic novel
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 […]
Martin Freeman linked to forthcoming ‘War of the Worlds’ drama
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 […]