Taglines: The Future Awaits.
The Time Machine movie storyline. The classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells becomes this big-budget adventure directed by the author’s great-grandson Simon Wells. Guy Pearce stars as Alexander Hartdegen, a scientist, professor, and inventor in 1895 New York City who believes that time travel is possible. The sudden and unexpected death of his fiancée spurs Alexander to build a time machine, which he hopes to use in an effort to change the past.
When he is unable to change the past, Alexander hurls himself more than 800,000 years into the future, seeking answers about the nature of time, but instead encountering a dystopian world where humanity has divided up into two races, the peaceful Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks. Befriending the beautiful Eloi woman Mara (pop singer Samantha Mumba), Alexander must set out to save her from the underground world of the Morlocks when she is captured by them. Along the way, he is aided by Vox (Orlando Jones), a bio-mechanical being from the 21st century.
Ultimately, Alexander makes a shocking discovery about the true nature of the Eloi and Morlocks and decides that the only way to change the future is to alter the present. Due to exhaustion, director Wells was briefly replaced during the last few weeks of production by Gore Verbinski, director of The Mexican (2001).
The Time Machine is a 2002 American science fiction film loosely adapted from the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells and the screenplay of the 1960 film of the same name by David Duncan. Arnold Leibovit served as executive producer and Simon Wells served as director, the great-grandson of the original author. The film stars Guy Pearce, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Jones, Samantha Mumba, Mark Addy, Sienna Guillory and Phyllida Law, and includes a cameo by Alan Young, who also appeared in the 1960 film adaptation.
The film is set in New York City instead of London, and contains new story elements not present in the original novel, including a romantic backstory, a new scenario about how civilization was destroyed, and several new characters, such as an artificially intelligent hologram played by Orlando Jones, and a Morlock leader played by Jeremy Irons. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Makeup (John M. Elliot, Jr. and Barbara Lorenz) at the 75th Academy Awards, but lost to Frida.
The film was a co-production of DreamWorks and Warner Bros. in association with Arnold Leibovit Entertainment who obtained the rights to the George Pal original Time Machine 1960 and collectively negotiated the deal that made it possible for both Warner Brothers and DreamWorks to make the film.
The Time Machine (2002)
Directed by: Simon Wells
Starring: Guy Pearce, Samantha Mumba, Omero Mumba, Jeremy Irons, Phyllida Law, Sienna Guillory, Laura Kirk, Josh Stamberg, John W. Momrow, Myndy Crist, Connie Ray
Screenplay by: David Duncan, John Logan, H.G. Wells (Kitap)
Production Design by: Oliver Scholl
Cinematography by: Donald McAlpine
Film Editing by: Wayne Wahrman
Costume Design by: Deena Appel, Bob Ringwood
Set Decoration by: Victor J. Zolfo
Art Direction by: Christopher Burian-Mohr, Bruce Robert Hill
Makeup Department: Norman Cabrera, David DeLeon, Nanci Cascio
Music by: Klaus Badelt
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of action violence.
Distributed by: DreamWorks Pictures (North America), Warner Bros. Pictures (International)
Release Date: March 8, 2002
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