According to the BBC's Cult TV web site Disney are about to make a film adaptation of John Christopher's Tripods trilogy.
You can read more here.
Yet another delay for series 2 on DVD no doubt!
Full Version: Tripods: The Movie
Yay...loved the series!...and the bubble-wrap covered Master's.
The final book was rather good too.
The final book was rather good too.
Actually too scared to click on the link.
Tripods. Was. Scary.
Tripods. Was. Scary.
I loved The Tripods too, it was a nice filler on Saturday nights whilst Doctor Who was off the air.
Very slow to begin with and the part set in France was a bit of a drag, but once they got into the city..Wow! That was such a cool city (I seem to remember in a magazine/comic during the time it was on, saying that it was the biggest model the BBC Visual Effects Dept. had ever bulit?) I remember being impressed with the glowing green pyramids the 'masters' used to fly around the city in.
Shame they never actually got to make the final book adaption. Kind of left the viewer wondering what happened next...bit of an insult to the licence payer if you ask me.
Very slow to begin with and the part set in France was a bit of a drag, but once they got into the city..Wow! That was such a cool city (I seem to remember in a magazine/comic during the time it was on, saying that it was the biggest model the BBC Visual Effects Dept. had ever bulit?) I remember being impressed with the glowing green pyramids the 'masters' used to fly around the city in.
Shame they never actually got to make the final book adaption. Kind of left the viewer wondering what happened next...bit of an insult to the licence payer if you ask me.
Yeah... Does anyone remember what actually happened in the end?
Tripods = reminds me of an old girlfriends three legged dog. LOL. sorry, I'm a little drunk.
QUOTE (Jon 79 @ Jan 6 2005, 01:37 AM)
Yeah... Does anyone remember what actually happened in the end?
They never actually made the final book. I do vaguely remember something about smuggled the blond one with the false skull cap out of the pyramid thing after he killed his master...or something.
Read the final book a very long time ago...but I think there's a big resistance attack using flying machine's...and possibly something to do with poisoning the water.
I may be very wrong of course.
In the book Will and Beanpole find the Freemen(?) again (at the end of season 2 they return to the White Mountains to find that their camp has been overrun by the Black Guard) and Will is sent off with Fritz (or whatever the name of the blond chap was) to recruit more followers in Southern Europe.
After they return from their recruiting drive they get involved in a plan to capture a Master - which they eventually do. The purpose in doing this is to try to find a way to knock them out so that they can then invade the Tripod’s city (after a lot of trail and error they work out that alcohol does the job quite nicely – if you ask me getting them pissed would be the first thing I would have tried but there you go . . .).
Anyway, shortly after this a number of people infiltrate the city (and the other two – one in the US and the other in the Far East) and set up a still in a basement where they brew copious amounts of moonshine. After pouring all the booze into the city’s water supply, thereby incapacitating the Masters, the Freemen manage to switch off the Tripod’s power source and eventually manage to fracture the dome of the city killing all the Masters.
Hurrah! Europe is free again! Viva the EU!
They then learn that although the attack in the Far East was also successful the one in the US, which was lead by Will’s cousin Henry, has failed. After another unsuccessful attempt to destroy the American city is made - this time with aeroplanes which the Tripods manage to bring them down by somehow stopping their engines in flight - Will, Henry and Beanpole take part in an attack using hot air balloons. During their attack runs it becomes apparent that the bombs aren’t staying in the right place on the dome to destroy it so at the last Henry jumps out of his balloon and detonates his bomb in the right place killing himself and at the same time freeing the world of the Tripod blight.
There then follows much rejoicing but this is short lived as the now free nations pick up their old squabbles and start disagreeing with each other again.
Will, Beanpole and Fritz resolve to work together to unite humanity once again.
Fin.
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I believe that the TV series was to follow pretty much the same plot line as the book but with the key difference that in the TV series Will was to rescue his beloved Eloise from the dastardly Tripods (in the books they had her stuffed and mounted in a glass case!).
Had the TV series gone ahead as planned they would have had to re-cast the role of Eloise as the girl who played her, Charlotte Long, was sadly killed in a car crash shortly after filming on the first series was completed.
After they return from their recruiting drive they get involved in a plan to capture a Master - which they eventually do. The purpose in doing this is to try to find a way to knock them out so that they can then invade the Tripod’s city (after a lot of trail and error they work out that alcohol does the job quite nicely – if you ask me getting them pissed would be the first thing I would have tried but there you go . . .).
Anyway, shortly after this a number of people infiltrate the city (and the other two – one in the US and the other in the Far East) and set up a still in a basement where they brew copious amounts of moonshine. After pouring all the booze into the city’s water supply, thereby incapacitating the Masters, the Freemen manage to switch off the Tripod’s power source and eventually manage to fracture the dome of the city killing all the Masters.
Hurrah! Europe is free again! Viva the EU!
They then learn that although the attack in the Far East was also successful the one in the US, which was lead by Will’s cousin Henry, has failed. After another unsuccessful attempt to destroy the American city is made - this time with aeroplanes which the Tripods manage to bring them down by somehow stopping their engines in flight - Will, Henry and Beanpole take part in an attack using hot air balloons. During their attack runs it becomes apparent that the bombs aren’t staying in the right place on the dome to destroy it so at the last Henry jumps out of his balloon and detonates his bomb in the right place killing himself and at the same time freeing the world of the Tripod blight.
There then follows much rejoicing but this is short lived as the now free nations pick up their old squabbles and start disagreeing with each other again.
Will, Beanpole and Fritz resolve to work together to unite humanity once again.
Fin.
-------------
I believe that the TV series was to follow pretty much the same plot line as the book but with the key difference that in the TV series Will was to rescue his beloved Eloise from the dastardly Tripods (in the books they had her stuffed and mounted in a glass case!).
Had the TV series gone ahead as planned they would have had to re-cast the role of Eloise as the girl who played her, Charlotte Long, was sadly killed in a car crash shortly after filming on the first series was completed.
I woulddn't be too scared. Tripods can only move around in circles. FACT!
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