Pre-production is now underway on BBC One”s The War of the Worlds with filming set to take place in Liverpool and Cheshire.

Prolific producer Mammoth Screen is making the 3 x 60 – the first British TV adaptation of HG Wells” classic sci-fi novel.

Peter Harness has written the drama with Craig Viveiros directing.

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When it was first commissioned, Harness said of the project: “I’m feeling phenomenally lucky to be writing The War of the Worlds and blowing up gigantic swathes of the Home Counties [the book is set in Surrey] at the dawn of the 20th century.

“Wells” book is ground zero for all modern science fiction and, like all the best sci-fi, manages to sneak in some pretty astonishing comments on what it is to be a human being too.

“I”m hoping to follow in the great man”s footsteps by making a terrifying, Martian-packed series which manages to be emotional, characterful, and – deep breath, dare I say it – even political at the same time.”

Mammoth Screen is busy prepping and developing several projects currently, including Noughts and Crosses, World on Fire and Pride & Prejudice.

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