War of the Worlds (TV series, 2019)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | war of the Worlds |
| Original title | War of the Worlds |
| Country of production |
United States , France |
| original language | English , French |
| Year (s) | since 2019 |
| Production company |
Fox Networks Group , Studiocanal , Urban Myth Films |
| length | 49 minutes |
| Episodes | 8 in 1+ seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Science fiction , drama |
| Director |
Gilles Coulier , Richard Clark |
| idea | Howard Overman |
| First broadcast | October 28, 2019 (France) on Canal + |
First publication in German |
November 6, 2019 on FOX |
| occupation | |
War of the Worlds (original title: War of the Worlds ) is an American - French science fiction - drama - television series of eight episodes. The film adaptation of the novel The War of the Worlds by HG Wells moves the plot to the present in France and England and tells the story through the fates of several individuals and families. Gabriel Byrne , Elizabeth McGovern and Léa Drucker play the leading roles . In Germany, the three-season series has been shown on FOX and MagentaTV since November 6, 2019 .
action
The French astronomer Catherine Durand decodes a signal from space that is recognizably of intelligent origin . Shortly after she informed NATO and armed forces were mobilized, the earth came under fire. Countless objects , initially thought to be meteors , hit all the important centers of the earth. Neurologist Bill Ward realizes that the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the objects is deadly to humans and warns his son, who works in the British government's command center.
All people who did not manage to seek protection underground in time, in cellars, underground garages or in subway stations, are exposed to the radiation and die. The survivors, including Sarah Greshman with her children Tom and Emily, the refugee Kariem Gat Wich Machar, who survived inside a tank truck, as well as Bill Ward and his ex-wife Helen Brown, try to cope with the invaders who initially settled show in the form of four-legged dog-like robots to evade.
After Bill and Helen find their son dead in the command center, they meet Sarah, Tom and Emily as well as Kariem, who made it to England from Calais, and Ash, who is caring for babies in a hospital. When the hospital is attacked by the robots, the group has to flee. It later emerges that the invaders have shown a keen interest in infants and in fetuses they harvest from pregnant women. The blind Emily develops a strange spiritual connection to the aliens, which shows, among other things, that she hears a pulsating signal and regains her eyesight when the four-legged friends approach.
At the same time, Jonathan, Sarah's husband and Emily and Tom's stepfather, tries to get back to England from France. He meets Chloe and her son Sacha, who join him. Sacha feels a similar, but not quite as strong contact with the aliens as Emily. There also seems to be a connection between the two young people, even though they have never met.
In the French Alps above Grenoble , Catherine, along with Colonel Mokrani and his troops, found a destroyed spaceship with the remains of biological organisms. They realize that a signal they sent themselves from their observatory disrupted the ship's systems and caused it to crash. This knowledge helps them to fend off the robots that attack them again and again.
Emily breaks up with Kariem, with whom she has developed a relationship, to find answers and to search for the aliens. The two find a wrecked spaceship lying in the Thames, which Emily enters. On a kind of command chair, she finds a human-like being who has the same circular tattoo on her wrist as herself (and which she got stung at the beginning of the plot).
Cast and dubbing
The German synchronization was carried out by the EuroSync GmbH for a dialogue book by Michael Nowka and the dialogue director of Ronald Nitschke .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Bill Ward | Gabriel Byrne | Klaus-Dieter Klebsch |
| Catherine Durand | Léa printer | Christin Marquitan |
| Helen Brown | Elizabeth McGovern | Heath Domanowski |
| Colonel Mustafa Mokrani | Adel Bencherif | Sascha Rotermund |
| Sophia Durand | Emilie de Preissac | Vivien Gilbert |
| Sarah Gresham | Natasha Little | Marieke Oeffinger |
| Emily Gresham | Daisy Edgar-Jones | Daniela Molina |
| Tom Gresham | Ty Tennant | Paul-Lino Krenz |
| Kariem Gat Wich Machar | Bayo Gbadamosi | Konrad Bösherz |
| Jonathon Gresham | Stephen Campbell Moore | Michael Deffert |
| Chloe Dumont | Stéphane Caillard | Jessica Walther-Gabory |
| Ash Daniel | Aaron Heffernan | Marcel Collé |
Episode list
| No. | German title | Original title | First broadcast in France | German language first publication (D) | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | Episode 1 | Oct 28, 2019 | Nov 6, 2019 | Gilles Coulier | Howard Overman |
| 2 | The day after | Episode 2 | Oct 28, 2019 | Nov 6, 2019 | Gilles Coulier | Howard Overman |
| 3 | threat | Episode 3 | Nov 4, 2019 | Nov 13, 2019 | Gilles Coulier | Howard Overman |
| 4th | they are there | Episode 4 | Nov 4, 2019 | Nov 13, 2019 | Gilles Coulier | Howard Overman |
| 5 | Close combat | Episode 5 | Nov 11, 2019 | Nov 20, 2019 | Richard Clark | Howard Overman |
| 6th | DNA | Episode 6 | Nov 11, 2019 | Nov 20, 2019 | Richard Clark | Howard Overman |
| 7th | The photo | Episode 7 | Nov 18, 2019 | Nov 27, 2019 | Richard Clark | Howard Overman |
| 8th | Rescue? | Episode 8 | Nov 18, 2019 | Nov 27, 2019 | Richard Clark | Howard Overman |
reception
Joachim Huber praises the series in the Tagesspiegel for its “hard realism”, for “best science fiction”, for “surprisingly little heroism” and states that it can certainly be measured against the great role models of the previous adaptations. In contrast, Martin Seng missing on Quotenmeter.de "a livelier performance" and called War of the Worlds as "predominantly stress", although "the fears of the characters quite noticeably" were.
Web links
- War of the Worlds in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- War of the Worlds at FOX
- War of the Worlds at MagentaTV
- War of the Worlds at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Tokarski: New series "War of the Worlds": People vs. Aliens , goldenekamera.de , November 5, 2019, accessed December 2, 2019
- ↑ War of the Worlds. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Joachim Huber: Sci-Fi, not Hokuspokus , Welt.de , November 6, 2019, accessed on November 26, 2019
- ↑ Martin Seng: "War of the Worlds" - The unspectacular end of humanity , quotemeter.de , November 10, 2019, accessed on November 26, 2019