Final month, Amazon quietly released a new film version of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. The film, wherein all the things we see is going on on laptop screens, stars Ice Dice and was an enormous flop with critics. It featured a scene the place the world is saved because of an Amazon drone driver. Significantly. Now, a month later, the rapper and actor has defined how the web’s favourite unhealthy film of 2025 got here to be.
Throughout a current livestream marathon hosted by standard creator Kai Cenat, Ice Dice dropped by to speak about his profession, his future tasks, and simply shoot the shit with Cenat and his mates. At one point during the stream, Cenat requested Ice Dice about Amazon’s Struggle of the Worlds. And whereas Cenat didn’t name it a horrible film, it was clear that Ice Dice wasn’t notably blissful concerning the completed product, which apparently was shot half a decade in the past in about two weeks.
“[War of the Worlds is a movie] I did in 2020 during the pandemic, five years ago,” Ice Dice instructed Cenat throughout the marathon stream. “We shot it in 15 days, and it was during the pandemic. So, the director wasn’t in there. None of the actors was in there. This was the only way we could really shoot the movie. [It was] pandemic time.”
Ice Dice added that that is the explanation War of the Worlds is offered fully as a sequence of laptop screens. He then added: “But really, if shit went down, everybody would only have their screen to look at.”
As for why the film took 5 years to launch, Ice Dice offered an odd reply, telling Kai Cenat that after Common offered the film to Amazon Prime, it “took a minute to finish” the movie due to “how it was shot.”
“The movie is shot, the actors are shot, but all the footage is from real surveillance cameras around the world,” claimed Ice Dice. “And they had to build all that shit. So yeah, it took a minute.”
As somebody who has watched the film and flipped via it a couple of instances, I feel loads of the footage featured in it’s truly inventory footage or content material licensed cheaply from some asset library. However hey, possibly they actually did fly all over the world accumulating unique safety digicam footage for this straight-to-digital low-budget adaptation of a basic novel. That’s potential, too, I assume…?
