Let's step back in time, a century or two ? Nail biting moments? When Earth goes to war against a merciless new enemy in the contemporary retelling of the H.G. Wells classic War of the Worlds, fear is everywhere. STEVEN PATRICK flies to New York to lock arms with movie giants Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise. 

It’s nearing the end of the 19th century; some 20 years before the term science fiction was coined, decades after electricity was discovered and before the horrors of mechanised warfare had become a reality. It was then that a novel by a young H.G. Wells, called War of the Worlds captured the imagination of the public.