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March 8, 2002 — Hollywood Reporter reports...

It's back to the future time again. But instead of a souped-up DeLorean, Hollywood's vehicle-of-choice is a recycled version of that granddaddy of all time-travel tales, H.G. Wells' classic novel "The Time Machine," which the author's own great-grandson Simon Wells has directed for DreamWorks and Warner Bros. George Pal, the FX magician, brought "The Time Machine" to the big screen in 1960 in a version starring Rod Taylor that was considered state of the art in its day. Now that state-of-the-art effects are almost commonplace, the new retelling probably faces tougher critics among audiences accustomed to big-screen pyrotechnics. But Wells' yarn about a Victorian-era inventor who hurtles into a future where mankind has evolved into the nasty Morlocks and the docile Eloi is a pretty durable property. And sci-fi aficionados of all ages, plus male moviegoers looking for a new escapist entertainment, should band together to ensure a timely, if not necessarily timeless, opening for the PG-13 rated movie.