The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds is a 2019 three-part British science fiction drama, produced by Mammoth Screen for the BBC and co-produced with Creasun Media and Red Square. The series is an Edwardian period adaptation of H.G. Wells' 1898 science fiction novel of the same name about a Martian invasion, and is the first British television adaptation of the novel. The War of the Worlds premiered in other countries before its UK broadcast on the BBC between 17 November and 1 December 2019. Premise In 1905 Edwardian England, journalist George (Rafe Spall), who works as an assistant to local scientist Ogilvy (Robert Carlyle), and George's lover Amy (Eleanor Tomlinson) start a life together in the town of Woking, in defiance of the norms of British society, due to George already being married to a wife who is not willing to grant a divorce. They then face an invasion of Britain, and possibly the whole of planet Earth, from Mars, while also attempting to survive against a powerful enemy unable to be fought with human resources. Cast