War of the World wants to be realistic

During an interview at WonderCon in San Francisco Rick Carter (production designer for Steven Spielberg's upcoming "War of the Worlds") told SciFi Wire, that the movie aims for a hyper-realistic look and feel for its fantastical events. The film, based on H.G. Wells' book, tells the story of a Martian invasion of Earth.

Here are a few clips from the interview:

"The idea of this version of War of the Worlds is that it really takes place in our world. So it's not as though we created a new world the aliens come into. It's our world."

"Typical science fiction recently has a tendency to kind of make it too fantastic and sort of detach itself from reality. But for this story, ... what really appealed to me was that it was a real story, and it was a very serious take on the whole thing. What would really happen if aliens came down, and how would we address it?"

You can read the complete interview here.

"War of the Worlds" is scheduled for a release on June 29th, 2005.

Source: SciFi Wire