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The W.E. "Wes" Shank Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Memorabilia
Lot 39

A script of The War of the Worlds

14 May 2019, 13:00 PDT
Los Angeles

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A script of The War of the Worlds

Paramount Pictures, 1953. Mimeographed manuscript, screenplay by Barré Lyndon, 120 pp, dated January 11, 1952 and marked "Revised Final White" on title page, with cast list, bound with brads in brown Paramount wrappers. Produced by George Pal and directed by Byron Haskin, The War of the Worlds had several script incarnations before Pal initiated Lyndon to write a new screenplay, one that updated author H.G. Wells' Victorian time and locale to the current era and California. As Haskin said about Lyndon: "Barré was a very pragmatic writer. We came up with some pretty far out things, and Barré would use them as the kernel of something good. It was very challenging to try to update the story into a modern situation." The resultant script was met with hesitancy by some industry executives, but Pal triumphed over the doubters when the film became one of the greatest science fiction movies ever made.
9 x 11.25 in.

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