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Kenny Smith previews the last of the Big Finish HG Wells’s adaptations...
SINCE JANUARY 2017, Big Finish has regularly been releasing acclaimed adaptations of HG Wells’s classic novels. The sixth and final audio play to get the treatment is The Martian Invasion of Earth, an adaptation of The War of the Worlds, which unsurprisingly, sees our world battling for survival against an unrelenting alien force. Originally written in 1897, The War of the Worlds is one of the first alien invasion stories in the history of literature and has since become the defining classic of the genre. Previous adaptations include the broadcast by Orson Welles in 1938 (which features as the backdrop to Mark Gatiss’s Big Finish Eighth Doctor story Invaders from Mars), George Pal’s 1953 film production, the 1978 musical album adaptation of the story by Jeff Wayne, and more recently the Steven Spielberg movie starring Tom Cruise in 2005.
Dramatised by Nicholas Briggs who also directed the play, Nick admits that he is a huge fan of the original book. He concedes: “Well, love doesn’t quite cover it! It feels like it’s a part of me. Part of so many of my basic assumptions about storytelling and science fiction ideas. I love science fiction and this is the ultimate science fiction story for me. It feels like it’s in my DNA.” Although Nick has written numerous Big Finish plays for many ranges over the years, he reveals that working on this script was a tough one. He says it was: “Far more difficult than I ever envisaged. I had three or four goes at it, using completely different approaches. The second-to-final draft of my last go is included as a free PDF download with the production, so you can see how I made some fairly radical last-minute changes – mainly to keep the word count down. “Because I had fallen in love with the book so heavily all over again, I put too many 5 of HG Wells’s actual words in, making it about a third too long. The finished script is still a bit longer than it should be, but Ijust couldn’t cut it any more Without seriously robbing it of what I felt was the essential plot."
”I put too many of HG Wells’s actual words in...”
ALTHOUGH THE story is famous through previous radio and film versions, Nick confirms this wasn’t particularly an is sue for him. He admits: “I didn’t worry about that, actually. Perhaps arrogantly, I thought all the other versions had made several really obvious errors. I’ve always wanted to ‘put that right’ as it were. I wanted to do an adaptation set in the original historical context and really get to the core of the story. ”There’s a tremendous cast in the play with film and TV star Richard Armitage taking the part of Herbert, the lead character and narrator of the epic story. He is joined by Big Finish regular, Lucy Briggs-Owen, playing his wife Amy. Richard, who starred in the recent trilogy of films The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies directed by Peter Jackson, has also featured in TV hits including Spooks and Hannibal, but this isn’t his first brush with Big Finish. Richard previously narrated two Robin Hood tales, The Witchfinders and The Siege.
Producer David Richardson adds: “Nick is such a huge fan of the original novel, and his love and passion for the material shines through on every page of the script. “It’s a glorious adaptation, and we’re blessed to have such a brilliant, huge star as our lead. I’ve admired Richard for many years, and to have him back at Big Finish in this production is very special for us indeed.” Nick continues: “David handled the casting. I wrote who I ideally wanted on the front of the first draft, and David went to work. And he got every single person I’d asked for - that very rarely happens. “There were many highlights. I suppose the first was my decision to keep the narrator’s wife with him - he rather callously drops her off in Leatherhead in the book, and later tells us that Leatherhead was flattened by a Martian machine! Quite how his wife survived, I don’t know.
“But keeping Herbert’s wife with him achieved three main things. It gave us a strong female voice in a male-dominated world from the past. It saved the narrator’s sanity - he kind of loses his mind in the novel, which is something that wouldn’t have happened if he’d had the woman he loved with him. And it makes the story slightly shorter by giving events more of an impulse. “Another highlight was getting the leading actor I wanted. And then finding that Iain Meadows and Jamie Robertson were available to do the sound design and music, respectively. So many highs. The script was very long, so I worried that we’d run out of time. But everyone was just brilliant and they all concentrated so hard that we got it all in the can without going over schedule. Richard was a really warm, modest and personable leading man. He has a great power in his performance and is quite the most polite and gentle actor I’ve ever worked with. We had a good time and I was flattered by everyone being so excited about the script.”
ОF COURSE, one noticeable thing about this release is the change of title. Nick explains: “There’s a very simple reason. The novel is out of copyright, but Jeff Wayne owns a trademark for the title and is quite rightly very protective of that trademark. So we avoided bothering him by applying a new title. “And in a way, as a big Doctor Who fan, I rather like The Martian Invasion ofEarth. It has echoes of The Dalek Invasion of Earth, which pleases me greatly. And in a small way it’s perhaps a more accurate title. There isn’t much of a war - it’s more of a walk-over! But I didn’t think we should call it The Martian Walk- Over. How about Martians Won -Humans Nil? I’ll get me coat. With the release of The Martian Invasion of Earth, the HG Wells series of adaptations is now complete, a collection that David is especially proud of. The late Sir John Hurt starred in The Invisible Man (for which he was posthumously nominated for a BBC Radio Award for best actor, and received a commendation), The First Men in the Moon stars Nigel Planer, The Shape of Things to Come stars Nicola Walker and Sam Troughton, The Island of Dr Moreau stars Ronald Pickup, and The Time Machine stars Ben Miles.
David explains: “It’s been such a lovely series to work on. I think every one of the scripts has been a class adaptation, and that has allowed us to attract classy casts. “My worry when we started working on these was that everyone would be doing HG Wells’s adaptations; that we were in danger of being just one of the many. I’m very pleased to say I was wrong and I strongly feel that the six releases we’ve made stand out in any perceived crowd. “And I was so proud that Sir John Hurt was posthumously nominated for a Best Actor award for The Invisible Man. Even ifI work for Big Finish for another 30 years, the HG Wells range will be one of my mo st cherished projects.”
EN BENTLEY directed K several of the plays, and he too has his highlights. Looking back to the first release, The Invisible Man, Ken says: “I love Jonathan Barnes’s writing. He has a handle on the period like no other writerat Big Finish, and it’s always a pleasure to direct his scripts. But the experience was eclipsed this time round by the privilege of working with Sir John Hurt.
You learn so much from actors with his experience of the industry.” Ken also adapted The Island of Doctor Moreau, as well as directing it, and says: “It was a treat to be asked to adapt one of the novels. Moreau is a story that has fascinated me for many years. It’s a rip-roaring adventure, but its observations about human (and animal) nature are still painfully relevant to day.” Another highlight was The Time Machine, adapted by Marc Platt. Ken says: “Being so busy I didn’t stop to think about the responsibility of directing The Time Machine: it’s such a seminal piece of science fiction.
For much of the story the time traveller travels alone, so adapting it for audio wasn’t without its challenges. Marc’s script is deceptively clever and the cast did a magnificent job, particularly Anj ella Mackintosh. Uweena is not an easy role to play, but Anjella makes her appear effortlessly truthful.” Of the whole series, Ken adds: “It’s always exciting to work on a new range of audio plays, but this time doubly so to bring to life the work of such a famous and influential author, and with such strong casts.”

 

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...Но если мы придем к тому, чтобы заняться этим, я несомненно поинтересуюсь мнением Ричарда на этот счет, поскольку мне понадобится его актерская помощь, как он чувствует текст. Но я определенно надеюсь...

Ага, значит, дядечка не зря в Берлин мотался Ричард все-таки будет еще читать его адаптации