Fri, Jul 01, 2005 - Page 16 News List

'War of the Worlds' reprised for out time

The HG Wells story about alien tripods zapping everyone and everything is remade by Spielberg and stars Tom Cruise

By Bob Strauss  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , LOS ANGELES

"There's a huge relationship to what's been going on in the world," notes Australian actress Otto, who really was pregnant with her first child when she filmed WOTW early in the year. "You really can't take anything in life for granted anymore. Whether it was the 9/11 attacks or the tsunami in Asia, we've seen images of people who get up in the morning, and by the afternoon everything they knew in their lives has completely changed."

Cruise sums it up succinctly. "I thought that the book was relevant and timeless because it was about people."

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