The BBC has confirmed that Peter Harness is adapting H G Wells’ The War of the Worlds for television.

The three part version is being produced by Mammoth Screen and will begin filming next year. “Wells’s book is ground zero for all modern science fiction,” Harness explained,  “and like all the best sci-fi, manages to sneak in some pretty astonishing comments on what it is to be a human being too. I’m hoping to follow in the great man’s footsteps by making a terrifying, Martian-packed series which manages to be emotional, characterful, and – deep breath, dare I say it – even political at the same time.”

Harness penned the two-part Zygon story for Doctor Who series 9 and episode 7 of the current season; he also adapted Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell for BBC One. T

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