While restarting the time machine to avoid debris, he is knocked unconscious and travels forward to the date 16 July 802701 before reawakening. Alexander travels to 2037, when the accidental destruction of the Moon by lunar colonists has begun rendering the Earth virtually uninhabitable. At the New York Public Library, a holographic librarian called Vox 114 insists time travel to the past is impossible. He travels to 2030 to discover whether science has been able to solve his question of how to change the past. When he completes the machine four years later, he travels back to 1899 and prevents her murder, only to see her killed again when a horseless carriage frightens the horses of a horse-drawn vehicle.Īlexander realizes that any attempt to save Emma will result in her death through other circumstances. After a mugger kills his fiancée Emma, he devotes himself to building a time machine that will allow him to travel back in time to save her. Unlike his friend David Philby, Alexander would rather do pure research than work in the world of business. Alexander Hartdegen is an inventor teaching at Columbia University in New York City. and Barbara Lorenz) at the 75th Academy Awards, but lost to Frida. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Makeup ( John M. The film received negative reviews from critics and grossed $123 million worldwide.

The film is set in New York City instead of London, and contains new story elements not present in the original novel nor the 1960 film adaptation, including a romantic backstory, a new scenario about how civilization was destroyed, and several new characters such as an artificially intelligent hologram and a Morlock leader.

The film stars Guy Pearce, Orlando Jones, Samantha Mumba, Mark Addy, and Jeremy Irons, and includes a cameo by Alan Young, who also appeared in the 1960 film adaptation. Arnold Leibovit served as executive producer and Simon Wells, the great-grandson of the original author, served as director. Wells and the screenplay of the 1960 film of the same name by David Duncan. The Time Machine is a 2002 American post-apocalyptic science fiction film loosely adapted by John Logan from the 1895 novel of the same name by H.

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells