The Shape of Things To Come - Film Adaptations

Film Adaptations

Wells loosely adapted the novel for the screenplay of the 1936 film Things to Come, produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies. It also takes elements from Wells' 1931 non-fiction work, The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind. The film stars Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke, and Margaretta Scott.

H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come is a Canadian science fiction motion picture first released in May 1979. Although credited to H. G. Wells, the film takes only its title and some character names from the original source material. The film's plot has no relationship to the events of the book. The film was an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of such recent successes as Star Wars, and TV series such as Space: 1999 and Battlestar Galactica, although the film had only a fraction of the production budget of any of these.