I’d just come off The Prince of Egypt, and I threw my name in the ring because I had an interest in getting into live-action. So they were looking around for a director. Then he was going to go off to do something else, and it went back to Brad, but he’d moved on. Originally, Brad Silberling was going to direct it, then Steven Spielberg decided he wanted it.
How did you become attached to Time Machine, and, being part of the Wells legacy, did the job come with added pressures? “I said, ‘Hey guys, I really ought to be directing this because, you know, the name!’” There tend to be painful memories that make you flinch deep inside.
It was a good 10 years before I could actually see the movie the way other people saw it. Way back in the beginning of my career, I was Supervising Animator on Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and it was about six years before I could see part of it without memories of the making of the movie overwhelming me. SIMON WELLS: I’ve got to be honest I don’t go back and watch movies I’ve made. INVERSE: How does The Time Machine hold up for you two decades after its release? Simon Wells at the helm of the time machine. THE RULES OF TIME TRAVEL is an Inverse special issue exploring the evolution of science fiction's most imaginative sub-genre.
Hartdegen meets an Eloi, named Mara (Samantha Mumba), and together they begin an uprising to stop the Morlocks’ brutal reign. When he discovers that fate can’t be altered, he heads into the far future and encounters a race of savage creatures called the Morlock who have enslaved primitive humans called the Eloi.
His grief drives him to complete a fantastic machine to travel through time and change the tragedy’s outcome. Confidential, Memento) took the starring role in the new Time Machine and plays Alexander Hartdegen, a late 19th century Columbia University physics professor whose fiancée (Sienna Guillory) is accidentally murdered during a robbery. The 2002 film was the second attempt to bring the clock-spinning story to the silver screen, with the first being a beloved 1960 adaptation delivered by special effects wizard George Pal and starring Rod Taylor as the ambitious inventor. Wells’ classic 1895 novella, The Time Machine, was given a glossy modern makeover as a Hollywood feature directed by the legendary author’s great-grandson, British filmmaker Simon Wells.īefore stepping into The Time Machine, Wells cut his teeth with animation work on blockbuster movies like Who Framed Roger Rabbit? before helming DreamWorks classics like An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Balto, and The Prince of Egypt.
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