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Dystopia | Space Invasion
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Budget 1,000,000 USD
The title character's name, George Herbert, is an homage to H.G. Wells, who wrote the original novel. The "H.G." stands for "Herbert George".
This was the first of many Asylum Studio "mockbuster" rip-off films that cash in on more popular movies, though this film did not start off that way. The script was originally written in 1997 by Carlos De Los Rios. Titled The Invasion, the film was to be a modern-day loose adaptation of H.G. Wells's War Of The Worlds, featuring two brothers (one a scientist and the other a solider) going on a cross-country quest to find their families amidst a full-scale alien invasion. The script interested many big studios and the two brothers were to be played by C. Thomas Howell and Tom Cruise, but the project fell through due to budgetary concerns. Years later, De Los Rios took his script to The Asylum and planned to make it there, but when they heard that Spielberg was working on his own version of War Of The Worlds with Cruise in the lead, the creators felt discouraged and decided to retool the script to cash in on his project. Director David Michael Latt said in an interview "We were doing it first...I think they knew about [the production] and never cared to reach out to us, so this was our way of giving them the middle finger." When the cash-in marketing proved to be a huge success, The Asylum started intentionally making more mockbusters and knock-offs as and used this film as a business model. Other elements, such as the musical score and effects created specifically for this movie, would go onto be recycled in countless Asylum productions.
Is one of the very few films in which Peter Greene does not play a villain, criminal or bad guy.
"George Herbert: I'm just here to find out if there were any survivors in D.C. Lt. Samuelson: No survivors. Everything's been wiped out. President, senators, generals, even the little fucking dish boy at the Denny's down at the Mall. Gone."
"George Herbert: Victor, we have rabies vaccines right here. Pastor Victor: You're gonna give these beasts rabies? George Herbert: No, I'm gonna inject toxins that can spread a deadly disease through their system. Pastor Victor: We're gonna give them a virus? George Herbert: Yes. Nothing's worked. The missiles, the bombs, guns, nothing. But this is life fighting life. Victor, this has a chance. Pastor Victor: Right. How about I go out there and call them in now? George Herbert: I didn't say it was a perfect plan. Do you have a better idea?"
