{"id":155337,"date":"2025-09-14T03:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/155337\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T03:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:32:10","slug":"ice-cube-filmed-war-of-the-worlds-scenes-with-no-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/155337\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cube Filmed ‘War of the Worlds’ Scenes With No Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFive years after filming War of the Worlds<\/a>, the pandemic era reboot has finally seen the light of day.<\/p>\n

\n\tIce Cube<\/a>, who plays government computer analyst Will Radford in the Rich Lee-helmed screenlife flick, recently recalled how he shot his scenes while social-distancing and why it \u201ctook a minute\u201d for the movie to get a release.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is a movie I did in 2020 during the pandemic, five years ago,\u201d he said on Kai Cenat\u2019s livestream<\/a>. \u201cWe shot it in 15 days, and it was during the pandemic. So, the director wasn\u2019t in there, none of the actors was in there. This was the only way we could really shoot the movie. It\u2019s pandemic time.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Grammy winner added, \u201cThat\u2019s why it\u2019s only the computer screen. But really, if shit went down, everybody would only have their screen to look at.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the War of the Worlds\u2018 July 30 premiere<\/a> on Prime Video<\/a>, Ice Cube also explained why the release took so long, taking into account other unconventional footage used in the making of the film.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tIce Cube in \u2018War of the Worlds\u2019 (2025) (Universal Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWell, it was a Universal<\/a> movie, and they sold it to Amazon Prime. And it took a minute to finish the movie because of how it\u2019s shot,\u201d he said. \u201cAll the footage is from real surveillance cameras all around the world. So they had to build all that shit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIce Cube stars in the thriller alongside Eva Longoria, Clark Gregg, Andrea Savage, Iman Benson, Henry Hunter Hall and more.<\/p>\n

\n\tWritten by Kenneth A. Golde and Marc Hyman, War of the Worlds is the latest adaptation of H.G. Wells\u2019 1898 alien invasion novel, which has seen numerous adaptations since Orson Welles\u2019 1938 radio drama. While this latest, screen-based reboot seems a thoughtful era-appropriate update on the material, it currently holds a 4% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five years after filming War of the Worlds, the pandemic era reboot has finally seen the light of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,29396,7048,29398],"class_list":["post-155337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ice-cube","tag-prime-video","tag-war-of-the-worlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}