Cavor had invented "Cavorite", a substance that blocked the force of gravity. He relates that when he was a young man, he met Professor Arthur Cavor ( Mark Gatiss) at Apuldram. In July 1969, 90-year-old Julius Bedford ( Rory Kinnear) tells young Jim (Alex Riddell) the story of two men who made the first journey to the Moon in 1909. This is the third collaboration between Thomas and Gatiss (after The Worst Journey in the World and Crooked House), and the first film to be produced by their production company Can Do Productions. Wells' 1901 science fiction novel of the same name.
The First Men on the Moon was first broadcast on 19 October 2010 on BBC Four. Wells' The First Men in the Moon, is a 2010 television drama written by Mark Gatiss, directed by Damon Thomas, that stars Gatiss as Cavor and Rory Kinnear as Bedford, with Alex Riddell, Peter Forbes, Katherine Jakeways, Lee Ingleby and Julia Deakin. The last adaptation was in 2010 using 3D technology.ġ0) Legendary stop motion artist Ray Harryhausen worked on the1964 adaptation of the novel.The First Men in the Moon, also promoted as H. Cavor’s first name is never mentioned, however he was given “Selwyn” in the graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.Ħ ) Georges Melies’ 1902 adaptation of Wells’ First Men in the Moon, released as Le Voyage dans la lune was the first internationally successful film, however it was an 11 minute version of the book.ħ ) Melies added a love interest in the book which became a staple in later adaptations.Ĩ ) A wonderful dramatization of Melies’ movie making magic was done in HBO’s From the Earth to the Moon mini-series in an episode appropriately titled: Le Voyage dans la Lune.ĩ ) At the time of this post, First Men in the Moon has been adapted 5 times to the silver screen. Cavor and his gravity defying material called Cavorite became major plot device in several other books by Wells and others.ĥ ) Dr. He was talking about science fiction books.ģ ) The book is considered the first alien dystopia book and is created with creating a sub-genre of science fiction featuring intelligent social aliens who are insect like.Ĥ ) Dr.
Lewis publicly stated that The First Men in the Moon is “ the best of the sort I have read”. It is not only a great challenge, but you’ll also be the life of the party and the envy of all your friends and enemies.ġ ) The book is considered a “scientific romance” (I have not idea what that means either) and was the first science fiction book Wells published in the 20th Century (1901).Ģ ) C.S. Wells’ classic sci-fi book The First Men in the Moon which I read because:Ĭ) It was for my League of Extraordinary Gentel-Man of la Book challenge which I highly recommend you join if you haven’t so far.
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