Prologue

Currently in production is a short 10 minute prologue to The War of the Worlds, detailing the fall of the Martian nation and their plans to move against earth. This short film will focus primarily on the Triumvid Council and their discussions on the threat facing their civilization. It's a pretty fun origin story, which explains a lot about the kind of species the Martians actually are. A parasite race that seed's other worlds centuries before their arrival, only to leave their previous worlds empty husks. Like locusts they ravage the resources of each world and move on to the next when they have depleted them. In essence what we call the Martians have no real world of origin to speak of. And our world is the next harvest, referring to humanity as "The Seed". In many disturbing ways, we have always belonged to them.

Creating the Martian world allows me a great deal of imagination and creativity, however even alien worlds need function and order and this is presenting both challenges and wondrous ideas on the Universe Well's created. First of is the Triumvid Council. I noticed in the novel the Martians always worked in threes. Their tripods, their formations, their social structure. I presume this was more to allow for a more unified dissent. All minds must be in unison for a plan to take place. This provides much strength ans well as opportunities for weakness, as this short film will reveal.