Spielberg beaten to War of the Worlds by secretly shot English rival

Spielberg beaten to War of the Worlds by secretly shot English rival: "In news fit to set Steven Spielberg's hair on end, Pendragon Pictures has just announced the completion of principal photography on their take of H.G. Wells' The War Of The Worlds. Set in Wells' intended turn-of-the-century English locale, the movie is the world's first authentic adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic 1898 novel."