20 Recent Movie Remakes NOBODY Asked For

20. War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds is a story that's basically been told to death across media, and frankly Steven Spielberg did a fine enough job adapting H. G. Wells' classic sci-fi story in 2005 that there was little interest in seeing it done again.

Yet this 2025 take does get a small sliver of credit for trying something different - eschewing the expected big-budget blockbuster format, the new War of the Worlds is instead a low-budget screenlife film unfolding entirely over phone and computer screens.

An interesting idea, albeit one whose execution is woeful from top to bottom - it's visually hideous, the writing is atrocious, it's jam-packed with embarrassing Amazon product placement, and Ice Cube's clueless central performance is only good for some unintentional chuckles.

The concept had potential even though nobody was asking for it, but the utterly slapdash, tossed-off manner in which this film was both produced and released - including a five-year stint in post-production limbo - really says it all.