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The Time Machine (4-Mar-2002)

Director: Simon Wells

Writer: John Logan

From novel: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

Keywords: Sci-Fi, Time Travel

Film adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel of the same name follows a time traveler's voyage into a far-off dystopian future.

ABSTRACT
Remake of The Time Machine (1960). Directed by H. G. Wells' great-grandson Simon, The Time Machine follows the saga of Alexander Hartdegen, an inventor whose desire to alter a catastrophe in his past drives him to prove the feasibility of time travel and, to that end, create a time machine of his own. Successful in inventing a machine and preventing his deceased lover's murder only to have her killed anyway by a horse and buggy, further experimentation with his machine inadvertently lands the intrepid voyager in the year 802,701, forcing Alexander to work with a holographic librarian first encountered in 2037 to guarantee his continued survival after he lands amidst a primitive future Earth charred by warring tribes of humans.

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