The Time Machine [Blu-ray]

Director: Simon Wells Simon Wells

Overview

The classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells becomes this big-budget adventure directed by the author's great-grandson Simon Wells. Guy Pearce stars as Alexander Hartdegen, a scientist, professor, and inventor in 1895 New York City who believes that time travel is possible. The sudden and unexpected death of his fianc?e spurs Alexander to build a time machine, which he hopes to use in an effort to change the past. When he is unable to change the past, Alexander hurls himself more than 800,000 years into the future, seeking answers about the nature of time, but instead encountering a dystopian world where humanity has divided up into two races, the peaceful Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks. Befriending the beautiful Eloi woman Mara (pop singer Samantha Mumba), Alexander must set out to save her from the underground world of the Morlocks when she is captured by them. Along the way, he is aided by Vox (Orlando Jones), a bio-mechanical being from the 21st century. Ultimately, Alexander makes a shocking discovery about the true nature of the Eloi and Morlocks and decides that the only way to change the future is to alter the present. Due to exhaustion, director Wells was briefly replaced during the last few weeks of production by Gore Verbinski, director of The Mexican (2001). The Time Machine co-stars Jeremy Irons and Mark Addy.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/05/2021
UPC:	0191329204580
Original Release:	2002
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Paramount
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:35:00
Sales rank:	4,985

Special Features

Commentary with Simon Wells and Wayne Wahrman; Commentary with David Valdes, James Price and Oliver Scholl; "The Hunt" animatic (with optional commentary); Creating the Morlocks; Building the Time Machine; Visual effects by Digital Domain; Deleted scene; Stunt choreography fight sequence; 1080p High Definition; English SDH subtitles

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Guy Pearce	Alexander Hartdegen
Samantha Mumba	Mara,Kalen
Jeremy Irons	Über-Morlock
Sienna Guillory	Emma
Orlando Jones	Vox
Mark Addy	David Filby
Phyllida Law	Mrs. Watchett
Laura Kirk	Flower Seller
Josh Stamberg	Motorist
Max Baker	Robber
Jeffrey M. Meyer	Central Park Carriage Driver
Lenny Loftin	Soldier #1
Alan Young	Flower Store Worker
Myndy Crist	Jogger
Connie Ray	Teacher
Lennie Loftin	Soldier #1
Dana Schick	Eloi
Thomas Corey Robinson	Soldier #2
Yancy Arias	Toren
Richard Cetrone	Hunter Morlock
Edward Conna	Hunter Morlock
Chris Sayour	Hunter Morlock
Jeremy Fitzgerald	Hunter Morlock
Dorian Kingi	Spy Morlock
Joey Anaya	Spy Morlock
Chona Jason	Eloi
Alex Madison	Eloi
Michael Chaturantabut	Eloi
Jon Valera	Eloi
John Koyama	Eloi
Jonathan Eusebio	Eloi
Klaus Badelt	Composer
Clint Lilley	Hunter Marlock
Diana Inosanto	Eloi
Rick Wentworth	Conductor

Technical Credits

John Logan

David Duncan

Simon Wells	Director
John Logan	Screenwriter
David Duncan	Screenwriter
Walter F. Parkes	Producer
David Valdes	Producer
Mike Chock	Sound Effects
Eric Lindemann	Sound Effects
Steve Blalock	Stunts
Damon Caro	Stunts
Kevin Derr	Stunts
Roy Farfel	Stunts
T.J. White	Stunts
Mario Vanillo	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

A classic science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, previously adapted to film in 1960, gets a vigorous reworking in this sumptuous, visually arresting popcorn movie directed by the author's great-grandson, Simon Wells. Guy Pearce plays Alexander Hartdegen, a brilliant mathematician who builds a time-travel device and, following the untimely death of his fiancée, uses it in an ill-fated attempt to change the course of history. Inadvertently, he catapults himself some 8,000 centuries into the future. There he finds a technological wasteland in which Homo sapiens has split into two subspecies: the peaceful Eloi, who enjoy a potentially idyllic, arboreal existence on the planet's surface, and the Morlocks, cannibals who only emerge from their underground dwellings in search of human food. Director Wells employs a wide variety of digitally created visual effects -- in combination with imaginatively designed sets, props, makeup, and costumes -- to create the illusion of an Earth that is almost unimaginably different from the one we know today. Jeremy Irons, deliciously malevolent, turns up late in the proceedings as the über-Morlock against whom Alexander is pitted. Former model Samantha Mumba is suitably decorative as Mara, the Eloi maiden who steals the time traveler's heart. Not to be taken seriously, The Time Machine has been expertly turned out and will amply reward viewers willing and able to suspend disbelief.