"War of the Worlds" (film)

Japanese: 《宇宙戦争》(映画) - うちゅうせんそう
"War of the Worlds" (film)

...On the other hand, in Hollywood, the first sci-fi musical, The World 50 Years Later (directed by David Butler), failed in 1930, and the jinx that futuristic stories would not be a hit was created, and major studios shunned sci-fi films. The reason behind this is that Paramount had proposed a film adaptation of Welles' The War of the Worlds (1898) in 1925, and had chosen the master of spectacle films, Cecil B. DeMille, to direct it, but DeMille showed no interest. In 1930, Eisenstein planned to adapt it into a film with the author's consent, but it did not come to fruition. Furthermore, in 1932, Hitchcock planned to adapt it in England, and although producer A. Korda was enthusiastic, they could not come to an agreement with Paramount, which had the film rights, and Korda ended up producing the aforementioned The World to Come, also by Welles. In 1938, the then 23-year-old Orson Welles produced a radio dramatization of the story (The Martians Invade America) that created a sensation.

*Some of the terminology used in the film "War of the Worlds" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…一方,ハリウッドでも,30年に初のSFミュージカル《50年後の世界》(デビッド・バトラー監督)が失敗するという例もあり,未来ものは当たらないというジンクスができて,SF映画はメジャー各社からは敬遠された。その裏には,パラマウントが,ウェルズの《宇宙戦争》(1898)の映画化を1925年に立案し,スペクタクル映画の巨匠セシル・B.デミルに白羽の矢を立てたが,デミルは興味を示さず,30年にはエイゼンシテインが,原作者の快諾を得て映画化を企画して果たさず,さらに32年にはヒッチコックがイギリスで映画化を企画し,製作者A.コルダが乗り気になったものの,映画化権を握ったパラマウントとの折合いがつかず,結局,コルダは同じウェルズの前述の《来るべき世界》を製作するに至ったといういきさつもある。そして38年には,アメリカで当時23歳のオーソン・ウェルズがこれをラジオドラマ化(《火星人来襲》)してセンセーションを巻き起こすことになる。…

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