War of the Worlds (2026)
Director: Péter Lichter
Cast: Orson Welles
A found-footage collage film built around the audio of Orson Welles’s The War of the Worlds, which Welles both directed and narrated. First aired in October 1938 as a Halloween stunt, the broadcast became infamous for triggering widespread panic across the United States, largely because its live-news-bulletin format sounded disturbingly real. Borrowing the visual grammar of today’s media landscape, W:A:R: