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1938 |
Orson Welles publishes a Radio play
version of the plot.
The result is the famous „Martian
Panic“.(30.10.1938 USA) |
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1947 |
A so-said alien-landing nearly Rosewell,
USA. This leads to the existence of
the secret US-Base „Area 51“,
this literary subject also exists in
the movie „Independence Day“
by Roland Emmerich. |
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1952 |
Movie
„War of the Worlds“ Film
by Paramount (German title: Kampf der
Welten); Regie: Byron Haskin, Producer:
George Pal, Actors: Gene Barry, Ann
Robinson, Less Tremayne. |
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1974 |
Manly und Wade Weibaum write the short-story
"Sherlock Holmes vs Mars"
(German: "Sherlock Holmes kontra
Mars"), |
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1978 |
Jeff Wayne’s (Moody Blues) Musical-Version
of the war of the worlds (on 2 CDS).
The reader is Richard Burton. The melody"
The eve of the war" becomes a hit,
also the song "Forever autumn"
(in 1995). |
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1978 |
Musical
Version
Chorus:
The chances of anything coming from
Mars
Are a million to one, he said (ahh,
ahh)
The chances of anything coming from
Mars
Are a million to one, but still, they
come...
Yes, the chances of anything coming
from Mars
Are a million to one, he said (ahh,
ahh)
The chances of anything coming from
Mars
Are a million to one, but still, they
come... |
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1980 |
German version of the musical with Curd
Jürgens speaking. Released in 1997.
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1989 |
US-serie "War of the Worlds"
(German title: Krieg der Welten - Die
Auferstehung). |
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1996 |
Roland
Emmerichs US-film "Independence
Day". Aliens invade earth and are
killed by a computer-virus (like in
Wells’ version). |
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1996 |
Kevin
Anderson (Anthologie with the titel:
War of the worlds - global dispatches),
in 19 short-stories |
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1997 |
US-film
"Mars attacks", (Jack Nicholson
as US-President), criticizes/ridicules
the story of H.G. Wells and „Independence
Day“. |
