Final month, Amazon quietly launched a brand new movie model of H.G. Wells’ The Battle of the Worlds. The film, wherein the whole lot we see is occurring on laptop screens, stars Ice Dice and was an enormous flop with critics. It featured a scene the place the world is saved because of an Amazon drone driver. Significantly. Now, a month later, the rapper and actor has defined how the web’s favourite dangerous film of 2025 got here to be.
Throughout a latest livestream marathon hosted by standard creator Kai Cenat, Ice Dice dropped by to speak about his profession, his future tasks, and simply shoot the shit with Cenat and his pals. At one level through the stream, Cenat requested Ice Dice about Amazon’s Battle of the Worlds. And whereas Cenat didn’t name it a horrible film, it was clear that Ice Dice wasn’t notably pleased in regards to the completed product, which apparently was shot half a decade in the past in about two weeks.
“[War of the Worlds is a movie] I did in 2020 through the pandemic, 5 years in the past,” Ice Dice informed Cenat through the marathon stream. “We shot it in 15 days, and it was through the pandemic. So, the director wasn’t in there. Not one of the actors was in there. This was the one approach we might actually shoot the film. [It was] pandemic time.”
Ice Dice added that that is the explanation Battle of the Worlds is introduced completely as a collection of laptop screens. He then added: “However actually, if shit went down, all people would solely have their display to have a look at.”
As for why the film took 5 years to launch, Ice Dice supplied an odd reply, telling Kai Cenat that after Common bought the film to Amazon Prime, it “took a minute to complete” the movie due to “the way it was shot.”
“The film is shot, the actors are shot, however all of the footage is from actual surveillance cameras around the globe,” claimed Ice Dice. “And so they needed to construct all that shit. So yeah, it took a minute.”
As somebody who has watched the film and flipped by means of it a couple of instances, I believe plenty of the footage featured in it’s really inventory footage or content material licensed cheaply from some asset library. However hey, possibly they actually did fly around the globe amassing authentic safety digital camera footage for this straight-to-digital low-budget adaptation of a basic novel. That’s doable, too, I suppose…?
