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Sleepybat
10/13/09

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Maybe I'm mistaken but I'm fairly sure the BBC did book one and two. I watched the BBC DVD just recently and it had two seasons. Season one is 'The White Mountains' and Season two is 'The City of Gold and Lead'. He seems to think they only did book one.

Exactly how much research did he do before trying to make this film? Maybe someone should tell him he missed the second season... his investors may prefer he is fully up to speed before giving him millions of pounds to make a film.
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gorehound
10/13/09

@Sleepybat: I have both of the seasons of tripods.great stuff for children to be introduced to a scifi.they will need to do 3 movies for each book of course.
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extra
10/13/09

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I remember listening this story from cassettes about 20 years ago and ever since I've been waiting this to be made into a movie or series. Finally it will happen!

Didn't know about the bbc series either. I seriously need to check that out! I rarely get excited about movies but this just made my day! Exclamation mark!
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stereobot
10/13/09

@extra: I remember seeing the bbc version as a kid, it scared the crap out of me.

Now I can't be near a mounted video camera without hyper-ventilating.

In all honesty, I DO have a fear of water towers which really may or may not be related to the tripods scaring me years earlier. Can you imaging being stuck inside a water tower? that big tank and a huge pump? just thinking about it is freaking the hell out of me.
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Golem100
10/14/09

@stereobot: I dunno, water towers make me think of a certain scene in the opening credits for Petticoat Junction.
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Xamda
10/13/09

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'The director of Knowing and I, Robot'
Oh yay, another quality film then.

The BBC version still stands up despite it's age.
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Golem100
10/14/09

@Xamda: Copy that on the BBC version. I'd love to have it on DVD for my grandkids.
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