‘THE War of The Worlds” will hold its out-of-this-world world premiere this Monday in Tokyo.
The big-budget blockbuster, based on H.G. Wells’ classic tale of vicious Martians invading Earth, is expected to be one of the summer’s top box-office smashes.
Set to attend the premiere are stars Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning, and director Steven Spielberg.
Cruise will then continue on to premieres in Berlin, Marseille, London and Madrid.
Earlier erroneous reports that the Tokyo premiere had been cancelled came after the venue was changed.
The PG-13 film, which also stars Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto and Justin Chatwin, opens here on June 29.
Wells’ story, first published in 1898, became infamous in 1938 when Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater players aired a radio dramatization of it.
Some people believed the broadcast was real, sparking widespread panic across the nation that aliens were taking over.
The novel was first made into a movie starring Gene Barry in 1953.