‘War of the Worlds’ Producer Defends Ice Cube Film After Bad Reviews
A creative voice behind last year’s Ice Cube film War of the Worlds is offering his thoughts about the movie’s inauspicious critical response. Timur Bekmambetov, the filmmaker known for 2008’s Wanted and this year’s Chris Pratt-led Mercy, took part in a Reddit AMA on Thursday to promote LifeHack, which he produced. Focusing on a crypto heist, director Ronan Corrigan’s thriller hits theaters next week after premiering last year at SXSW. Among 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’ classic sci-fi novel about an alien invasion. Starring Ice Cube, Eva Longoria and Clark Gregg, director Rich Lee’s movie was critically eviscerated and currently holds a meager 4 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It also collected five of the six Razzie Awards for which it was nominated, including the dubious distinction of the year’s worst picture. In response to a question about how he felt to have worked on the project, Bekmambetov wrote, “The criticism of …


