One film that made headlines this Summer was Amazon Prime Video’s “War of the Worlds” starring Ice Cube.
The incredibly loose contemporary-set adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic launched last month without much fanfare until the reviews started showing up – and the title earned a rare 0% on Rotten Tomatoes initially (it’s now at 4%).
Cube stars as Will Radford, a top cyber-security analyst for Homeland Security, who spends his days tracking potential threats to national security through a mass surveillance program. An attack by an unknown entity leads him to question whether the government is hiding something from him … and the rest of the world.
The project was a Screenlife title – meaning the whole film takes place across screens – computers, tablets, phone screens, camera recordings, etc. Those involved in the film haven’t spoken about it much in the wake of its release.
That changed recently when Cube appeared on Kai Cenat and was asked about the film. He revealed that it looks cheap and nasty because it was:
“[‘War of the Worlds’] was a movie I did in 2020 during the pandemic. We shot it in 15 days, and it was during the pandemic. So the director wasn’t in there. None of the actors was in there. This was the only way we could really shoot the movie. All the footage is from real surveillance cameras all around the world. So they had to build all that s— [and then collect and edit the footage].”
So why did it take so long to get to screens? He says the project was originally shot by Universal, which then sold it to Amazon. Eva Longoria, Iman Benson, Henry Hunter Hall, Clark Gregg and Devon Bostick co-starred in the film.
