Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds on DVD and Blu-ray
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Following a triumphant UK and European arena tour in 2012, Universal Pictures are delighted to announce that ‘The New Generation’ of one of the most ground-breaking and best-selling musical works of all time, Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray™ on Monday 25 November.
Filmed at London’s O2 Arena and innovatively combining music, technology and live performance, it features an all-star cast including Marti Pellow as The Sung Thoughts of The Journalist, Jason Donovan as Parson Nathaniel, Wicked’s Kerry Ellis as his wife Beth, Kaiser Chiefs’ Ricky Wilson as The Artilleryman and Jettblack’s Will Stapleton as The Voice of Humanity.
Internationally acclaimed actor Liam Neeson completes the cast and will be seen in the new production in stunning 3D holography portraying the role of George Herbert, The Journalist. Taking over from Richard Burton’s iconic narration, Liam with an expanded story and musical score appears in 90 sequences (as opposed to Richard’s 74) including as an 11-foot high holographic ‘head and shoulders’ above the stage and within CGI sequences projected on the shows 100-foot wide Animation Wall.
It is Liam’s breathtaking full-body 3D performance, that seamlessly interacts with the live performers on stage, that leads the exciting new ingredients which complement the most memorable and iconic elements from previous productions and make it a truly epic production and multi-media extravaganza not be missed. Others include a 3-tonne, 35-foot tall Martian Fighting Machine firing real flame Heat Rays, a world first ‘levitation’, a leaf drop over the audience, and a Fighting Machine’s climatic ‘incineration’ of a cast member and NASA control centre, all mixed in surround sound.
