The Time Machine: Memorabilia & Collectibles

Directed by Simon Wells and Gore Verbinski, The Time Machine is a science fiction movie. It was produced by Walter F. Parkes, David Valdes, and John Logan. It was released on 8th March 2002. Based on the novel of the same title, the film was not hardcore adapted from the novel but only in certain ways.

 

The movie stars Guy Pearce, Orlando Jones, Jeremy Irons, Samantha Mumba, Sienna Guillory, Mark Addy and Phyllida Law. The movie is set on the landscape of New York instead of London as in the novel. It also has an added on features like...   more

Directed by Simon Wells and Gore Verbinski, The Time Machine is a science fiction movie. It was produced by Walter F. Parkes, David Valdes, and John Logan. It was released on 8th March 2002. Based on the novel of the same title, the film was not hardcore adapted from the novel but only in certain ways.

 

The movie stars Guy Pearce, Orlando Jones, Jeremy Irons, Samantha Mumba, Sienna Guillory, Mark Addy and Phyllida Law. The movie is set on the landscape of New York instead of London as in the novel. It also has an added on features like a romantic back story.

 

The main theme of the story revolves around the concept of Dr. Alexander Hartdegen (Pearce) trying to save his lover Emma (Guillory) by going back in time to avoid her muder. Dr. Alexander Hartdegen is young scientist who is teaching at the University of Columbia in New York City. Alexander immerses himself in research and keeps himself busy with making inventions. Most of scenes were done in London. When his sweetheart has been a prey and killed by a robber, Alexander devotes himself to make a time machine to back in time and save her. When after four years his time machine is completed, he travels back in time and reverses the vents and saves Emma. But later on in time she is killed by a horse and carriage. As the movie progresses we see that Alexander move into the future which is inhabited with natural calamities and then come to the primitive age where more of the story unveils.