‘War of the Worlds’ producer defends Ice Cube movie after disastrous reviews

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Creative voice behind last year’s Ice Cube movie War of the Worlds He offers his thoughts on the film’s dismal critical response.

Timur Bekmambetov, well-known director in 2008 required This year, it is led by Chris Pratt mercyparticipated in a Reddit AMA on Thursday to promote LifeHackwhich he produced. Focusing on a cryptocurrency heist, director Ronan Corrigan’s thriller will hit theaters next week after debuting last year at SXSW.

Among the questions asked to Bekmambetov were multiple inquiries about what he had produced War of the Worldswhich premiered on Prime Video in July, is a loose adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic sci-fi novel about an alien invasion. Directed by Rich Lee, the film stars Ice Cube, Eva Longoria and Clark Gregg, and currently holds a meager 4 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It also collected five of the six Razzie Awards for which it was nominated, including the dubious distinction of Worst Picture of the Year.

Asked how he felt working on the project, Bekmambetov wrote: “The criticism War of the Worlds Didn’t surprise me. I’ll take three weeks at number one on Amazon Prime for a good review any day. always.”

In addition, there is a question that someone else asked about the film – this question is simply, “War of the Worlds “Why?” – prompted Bekmambetov to sarcastically, “LifeHack He forced me War of the Worlds“.

In September, Ice Cube explained to streamer Kay Senat that the film dealt with production challenges, which included filming in 2020 amid the pandemic. The actor plays a surveillance expert who has a lot on his plate when aliens attack.

“We shot it in 15 days, and that was during the pandemic,” Ice Cube said at the time. “So the director wasn’t there. None of the actors were there. That was the only way we could really shoot the movie.”

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