{"id":782866,"date":"2026-05-08T22:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/782866\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T22:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:09:14","slug":"war-of-the-worlds-producer-defends-ice-cube-film-after-bad-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/782866\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;War of the Worlds&#8217; Producer Defends Ice Cube Film After Bad Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA creative voice behind last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ice-cube\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ice-cube_1\" data-tag=\"ice-cube\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ice Cube<\/a> film War of the Worlds is offering his thoughts about the movie\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/war-of-the-worlds-review-roundup-critics-1236340070\/\">inauspicious critical response<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/timur-bekmambetov\/\" id=\"auto-tag_timur-bekmambetov_1\" data-tag=\"timur-bekmambetov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Timur Bekmambetov<\/a>, the filmmaker known for 2008\u2019s Wanted and this year\u2019s Chris Pratt-led Mercy, took part in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/movies\/comments\/1t68bkk\/hey_reddit_were_timur_bekmambetov_director_of\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reddit AMA<\/a> on Thursday to promote LifeHack, which he produced. Focusing on a crypto heist, director Ronan Corrigan\u2019s thriller hits theaters next week after premiering last year at SXSW.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAmong the questions posed to Bekmambetov were multiple queries about him having produced War of the Worlds, which hit Prime Video in July and loosely adapted H.G. Wells\u2019 classic sci-fi novel about an alien invasion. Starring Ice Cube, Eva Longoria and Clark Gregg, director Rich Lee\u2019s movie was critically eviscerated and currently holds a meager 4 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It also collected <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/lists\/2026-razzie-awards-winners-worst-movies-performances\/\">five of the six Razzie Awards<\/a> for which it was nominated, including the dubious distinction of the year\u2019s worst picture. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn response to a question about how he felt to have worked on the project, Bekmambetov wrote, \u201cThe criticism of War of the Worlds didn\u2019t surprise me. I\u2019ll take three weeks at number one at Amazon Prime over a good review any day. Always have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAdditionally, a different individual\u2019s question about the film \u2014 this one simply asking, \u201cWar of the Worlds \u2014 why?\u201d \u2014 led Bekmambetov to quip, \u201cLifeHack is my reparation for The War of the Worlds.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn September, Ice Cube explained to streamer Kai Cenat that the film dealt with production challenges, which included shooting in 2020 amid the pandemic. The actor plays a surveillance expert who has a lot on his plate when aliens attack. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cWe shot it in 15 days, and it was during the pandemic,\u201d Ice Cube said at the time. \u201cSo the director wasn\u2019t in there. None of the actors was in there. This was the only way we could really shoot the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A creative voice behind last year\u2019s Ice Cube film War of the Worlds is offering his thoughts about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":782867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[16002,185,171,3514,59821,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-782866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-amazon-prime-video","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ice-cube","12":"tag-timur-bekmambetov","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116541244975192645","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}