Posted by tourdemars to Entertainment at August 28, 2003 12:00 PM

Mars attacks – but sometimes Mars laughs. In our last episode, we saw how Hollywood science fiction tended to project period anxieties – communism, infiltration, nuclear destruction, etc. – onto the Red Planet. Sometimes, though, Mars was the butt of jokes. Still, there’s apparently just enough magic to keep the cameras intrigued. Director Timothy Hines is shooting a new version of War of the Worlds for Paramount, and rumor has it that Paramount also is developing an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars novels, complete with four-armed warriors and bronzed princesses.