Final month, Amazon quietly launched a brand new movie model of H.G. Wells’ The Battle of the Worlds. The film, wherein all the pieces we see is going on on pc screens, stars Ice Dice and was an enormous flop with critics. It featured a scene the place the world is saved due to an Amazon drone driver. Severely. 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 in style creator Kai Cenat, Ice Dice dropped by to speak about his profession, his future initiatives, and simply shoot the shit with Cenat and his mates. 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 instructed 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 manner we may actually shoot the film. [It was] pandemic time.”
Ice Dice added that that is the rationale Battle of the Worlds is offered solely as a sequence of pc screens. He then added: “However actually, if shit went down, all people would solely have their display screen to take 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 offered 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 all over the world,” claimed Ice Dice. “They usually needed to construct all that shit. So yeah, it took a minute.”
As somebody who has watched the film and flipped via it just a few instances, I believe quite a lot of the footage featured in it’s really inventory footage or content material licensed cheaply from some asset library. However hey, perhaps they actually did fly all over the world gathering unique safety digicam footage for this straight-to-digital low-budget adaptation of a basic novel. That’s doable, too, I assume…?
