Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Justin Chatwin
Release date: June 29
Prelude: Based on H.G. Wells' 1898 classic sci-fi novel about a martian invasion. It caused widespread panic in 1938 when legendary filmmaker Orson Welles adapted it into a radio play and broadcast it in the form of a live report.
The new story: Cruise plays divorced dockworker Ferrier, who is an inept father. He has no idea how to handle his children - Robbie (Chatwin) and Rachel (Fanning).
One weekend, while the siblings are making a rare visit to see their father, a three-legged war machine suddenly emerges from underground and incinerates everything in sight. Ferrier and his children quickly escape to the countryside, but must fend for themselves among the swarms of people fleeing from the alien attack.
Ferrier faces the daunting task of keeping his children alive amid a massive alien invasion.