War of the Worlds (2005 film) War of the Worlds (2005 film) War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science-fiction action disaster film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp, loosely based on the 1898 novel of the same title by H. G. Wells and jointly produced and released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures. It stars Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Justin Chatwin, Miranda Otto and Tim Robbins, with narration by Morgan Freeman. In the film, an American dock worker is forced to look after his children, from whom he lives separately, as he struggles to protect them and reunite
Fighting machine (The War of the Worlds) gods (Hera, Hades, Zeus, Poseidon). In the 2005 movie "Chicken Little", alien tripods attack the Earth. The aliens themselves sit inside the tripods and they are similar to "The War of the Worlds" Martians. In the animated superhero film "Ultimate Avengers 2", a race of aliens called the Chitauri invade Earth. Machines resembling Wells' fighting machines are briefly seen attacking London, as a deliberate homage to "The War of the Worlds". In the 2010 TV movie "High Plains Invaders", a Western film about an alien invasion of the American Wild West in the 1890s, the alien antagonists were inspired by