c/movies · by Blaze@piefed.zip · 336d

Ice Cube Says He Shot His ‘War of the Worlds’ Scenes in 15 Days Without the Director or Other Actors: ‘This Was the Only Way’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/ice-cube-war-of-the-worlds-15-days-without-director-1236517622/

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ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 61 pts · 336d (1 reply)

The other way was to refrain from doing so at all.

danc4498@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 336d

The only way to get paid for it

nozone@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 336d (2 replies)

If they had gotten it out quickly this would have been kinda neat and a selling point of the film (even if it sucked). So why did they wait 4 years after the pandemic to release it?

thejoker954@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 335d (1 reply)

On Corridor Crew's latest vfx artists react they talked about this movie.

Basically it was supposed to be a different style movie and then executives got involved wanting it to appeal to a larger audience causing a bunch of re-editing. And the special effects were basically placeholders from the original version of the movie reused as final assests in the executives 'wide market' version.

They also go into how some morally questionable stock footage is used in it as well.

toynbee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 335d

Drew Gooden provided some information on it also, but it was largely what you said.

aarRJaay@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 336d

You can tell

SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 15 pts · 336d (2 replies)

Why? Was this shot during COVID?

threeonefour@piefed.ca · 19 pts · 336d (1 reply)

It was

HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 335d

its funny because while watching I kept looking at the year because it would make sense if it was a covid movie.

zecg@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 336d (2 replies)