The Time Machine
The greatest adventure THROUGH all time!
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$80 000 000
Box office
$123 729 176
Director
Actors
Guy Pearce, Samantha Mumba, Jeremy Irons, Omero Mumba, Sienna Guillory, Orlando Jones, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law, Laura Kirk, John W. Momrow
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
David Valdes, Walter F. Parkes
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Mindy Marin
Editing
Wayne Wahrman
Whole Team (104)
Whole Team (104)
Short description
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
What's left behind the scenes
- In one of the scenes, when Alexander travels through time, the date 635,427,810 AD can be noticed on the counter of his machine.
- A photograph of H.G. Wells, the author of the novel on which the film is based, can be seen in several shots in Alexander Hartdegen's house.
- Alan Young, who played the role of Filby in the 1960 film, makes a cameo appearance as a flower shop owner.
- Guy Pearce's acting was so confident and consistent that, if necessary, sound from one take could be overlaid onto footage from another and still match perfectly.
- The passage that Orlando Jones (Vox) reads to the Eloi is taken from Chapter 17 of Mark Twain's 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'.
- Initially, Vox was supposed to be a robot, however, around the same time as 'The Time Machine' was being filmed, Steven Spielberg's 'Artificial Intelligence' was also in production, featuring robots with very similar designs. Only after all possible options were exhausted did production designer Oliver Scholl come up with the idea to make this character a hologram.
- Originally, Vox was intended to be a robot; however, Steven Spielberg's 'A.I. Artificial Intelligence' was being filmed almost simultaneously with 'The Time Machine,' and it featured robots with a very similar design. Only after all other possible options had to be discarded did production designer Oliver Scholle come up with the idea to make the character a hologram.
- Alan Young, who played Philby in the 1960 film, appears in a cameo as a florist.
- Guy Pearce performed the vast majority of the stunt scenes without the use of doubles and was very dissatisfied when he was not permitted to perform a few stunts that the director deemed too complex.
- After director Simon Wells was forced to halt his work on the project due to extreme exhaustion, Gore Verbinski was specially brought in to replace him for the remaining 18 days of filming. Simon Wells returned to his duties during the post-production stage.
- The film's premiere was initially scheduled for December 2001, but the tragic events of September 11, 2001, necessitated changes. One scene depicted futuristic skyscrapers in New York being struck by a meteor shower of lunar debris, and producers felt this imagery could remind viewers of the recent terrorist attack on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
- In one of the scenes where Alexander travels through time, the date 635,427,810 AD can be seen on his machine's counter.
- The time machine itself was, at that time, the largest and most expensive prop specifically made for filming the movie.
- The passage that Orlando Jones (Vox) reads to the Eloi is taken from the 17th chapter of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
- Director Simon Wells is the great-grandson of the famous science fiction writer H.G. Wells, who wrote the novel of the same name that served as the basis for the film.
- Filming period: February-June 2001.
- After director Simon Wells was forced to interrupt his work on the project due to extreme exhaustion, Gore Verbinski was specially invited to replace him for the remaining 18 days of filming. Simon Wells returned to his duties during post-production.
- At that time, the time machine itself was the largest and most expensive prop specially constructed for the film.
- The Morlocks in the film were portrayed by actors in special costumes with animatronic masks. Computer graphics were used in scenes where they run on all fours at incredible speeds.
- In several shots in Alexander's house, a photograph of H.G. Wells, the author of the novel upon which the film is based, can be seen.
- When Alexander first meets Vox (an artificial intelligence appearing as a hologram in the library), he asks about books on time travel, and one of the suggestions is H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine." Vox also mentions the original 1960 film adaptation of "The Time Machine."
- Guy Pearce performed the vast majority of the stunt scenes without the use of stunt doubles and was very unhappy when he was not allowed to perform several tricks that the director deemed too complex.
- Guy Pearce broke a rib during the filming of the fight with the Morlocks.
- The film's premiere was originally scheduled for December 2001, but the tragic events of September 11, 2001, necessitated changes. One of the film's scenes depicted futuristic skyscrapers in New York being struck by a meteor shower of lunar debris, and the producers felt that such imagery might remind viewers of the recent terrorist attack on the World Trade Center twin towers.
- The Morlocks in the film were portrayed by actors in special costumes with animatronic masks. Computer graphics were used in the scenes where they run on all fours with incredible speed.
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