Sci-Fi

AMC Premiere Acquires Eleanor Tomlinson 'The War of the Worlds' Adaptation

Lacy Baugher Milas

19 Feb 2020 — 2 min read

The latest project from Poldark star Eleanor Tomlinson, a new adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic story The War of the Worlds, will come to America via AMC's new ad-free service, AMC Premiere.

AMC Premiere is an add-on subscription that provides additional and exclusive content, as well as commercial free viewing, within the existing AMC app. (Shorter version: Yes, this is yet another streaming-adjacent service you may want to consider adding to your at-home lineup.)

The War of the Worlds aired earlier this year on BBC one and features a cast that includes not just Tomlinson, but also several other familiar faces that will be familiar to British drama fans, including Rafe Spall and Robert Carlyle. It's a lavish three-part production that aims to (once again) reframe the original novel's moral anxieties in new and relative directions, including everything from women's liberation to climate change.

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