SUBMITTED BY Movieman129

February 13, 2002 —

From Movieheadlines.net Simon Wells, director of the upcoming Time Machine, talks about the movie and cameos:

Director Simon Wells told SCI FI Wire that his remake of The Time Machine will feature more than 400 special-effects shots, enabling him to create a visual landscape light years beyond what George Pal was able to realize in his 1960 film version. "There's a place in the original where the time machine gets encased with rock," Wells said in an interview. "Hundreds of years go by, and the Time Traveler is trapped inside the rock, which was basically a really clever cheat to get around showing that huge sweep of time changing."

Added the director, "We don't do that cheat. We stay out in the open. We see geological time travel. We see, literally, an ice age come and go. Right there, that's something you couldn't possibly do even five years ago.