The Time Machine (2002)
The Time
Machine is a 2002 American science fiction film loosely adapted from the 1895 novel
of the same name by H. G.
Wells and the screenplay of the 1960
film of the same name by David
Duncan. Arnold Leibovit served as executive producer and Simon
Wells, the great-grandson of the original author,
served as director. The film stars Guy Pearce, Orlando Jones, Samantha Mumba, Mark
Addy, and Jeremy Irons, and includes a cameo by Alan Young, who also appeared in the 1960 film adaptation. The film
is set in New York City instead
of London, and contains new
story elements not present in the original novel nor the 1960 film adaptation,
including a romantic backstory, a new scenario about how civilization was
destroyed, and several new characters such as an artificially intelligent hologram and a Morlock leader.
