H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (Hines film) added scenes, re-edits, and re-tooled special effects; the director says this is the definitive version. "The Classic War of the Worlds" replaces the 3 hour rough cut version, "H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds", that was widely distributed and is now discontinued. In 2012 a re-imagined, re-edited, and re-thought version, with new material added, was released under the title War of the Worlds – The True Story; this new version, again directed by Timothy Hines, is presented as a faux-documentary. It revisits Wells' novel, portraying its events as historical by way of the documented recollections of a survivor of
The War of the Worlds "The War of the Worlds". In the end of the first issue of "Marvel Zombies 5", it is revealed that the main characters will visit a world called "Martian Protectorate" where the events of "The War of the Worlds" are occurring. "The Tripods" trilogy of books features a central theme of invasion by alien-controlled tripods. "The War of the Worlds" has spawned seven films, as well as various radio dramas, comic-book adaptations, video games, a television series, and sequels or parallel stories by other authors. The most famous, or infamous, adaptation is the 1938 radio broadcast that was narrated and