Invasion is the closest thing to helping me understand what we’re experiencing Firas Nassar, Invasion actor In the end, our creature designers came up with something amazing.” It’s really tough to find a new alien – you never want to do what someone else has done. “Simon and I thought ‘What are the nightmares that we had as kids? What scares us now?’ That was our starting point, but it took a year before we decided how we wanted these creatures to look and sound. Coming up with a unique alien design for Invasion, though, proved more problematic than initially predicted. No good alien invasion story is complete without its intimidating antagonists. It was this incredible dance of collating ideas, which led to us spending two years building and refining Invasion’s story.” Menacing martians “But it turned into a seven-hour one! We pitched ideas back and forth, and talked about characters that we had in mind.
“It was supposed to be an hour-long meeting,” Weil explains. Instead, the duo were simultaneously working on separate alien invasion TV series – until Weil’s agent suggested that they should join forces and work on a combined project.
Surprisingly, Weil and Kinberg both worked on CBS’ 2019 revival of The Twilight Zone, but it wasn't here that their paths crossed ahead of collaborating on Invasion. So I wanted to create a story that skirted reality and fiction, and that gave the same kind of experience to audiences that both individuals did for their time.” Wells’ novel, and then by Orson Welles’ 1938 radio play. “I always wanted to adapt War of the Worlds,” Weil says.
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