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Things to Come (also known as Shape of Things to Come [2] and in promotional material as H. G. Wells' Things to Come) is a 1936 British science fiction film produced by Alexander Korda, directed by William Cameron Menzies, and written by H. G. Wells.
Produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies, the film was released in 1936. It also takes elements from Wells's non-fiction book The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1931). H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come, a low-budget Canadian space opera film first released in May 1979, presented itself as a sequel and ...
Time After Time (1979 film) Time Machine (unfinished film) The Time Machine (1960 film) ... Category: Films based on works by H. G. Wells. 20 languages ...
The film begins in the celestial realms, with three superhuman entities – gods, or perhaps angels – regarding the planet Earth. Despairing of these "animals" that one of them continues to care about, the other two dare him to conduct an experiment to see if such lesser creatures can handle the kind of power over reality that might let them deserve to reach the stars.
"The Man Who Could Work Miracles" is a British fantasy-comedy short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1898 in The Illustrated London News. It carried the subtitle "A Pantoum in Prose". [1] The story is an early example of contemporary fantasy (not yet recognized, at the time, as a specific subgenre). In common with later works falling ...
The film's plot has no relationship to the events of the book. The book and its 1936 film adaptation Things to Come predict events such as a Second World War and the collapse of social order until a world state is formed, whereas the 1979 film involves a high-tech future involving robots and spaceships.
The movie was AIP's most successful release of the year, causing them to make a series of films based on H. G. Wells novels. [7] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one star out of four. [8] Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "a stunningly ridiculous mixture of science-fiction and horror-film clichés."
In 1938, his radio anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air gave Welles the platform to find international fame as the director and narrator of a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds, which caused some listeners to believe that a Martian invasion was in fact occurring. The event rocketed the 23-year-old Welles to ...