Everyone knows what the White Flag means! Read the full article on AICN Freddy Beans here with news on a new WAR OF THE WORLDS adaptation from HollywoodReporter. Howard Overman will create and write what will be an 8 part series re-imagining. Canal+ and Fox Networks Group Europe & Africa will team to co-produce their 2nd original regional after DEEP STATE, which aired earlier this year. WAR OF THE WORLDS has already begun pre-production and is scheduled to shoot in the Fall. In this new take on the old classic, the folks on earth get a transmission from another galaxy. The world waits with baited breath for another sign and days later gets one. The appearance of alien warships appear in the sky and decimates the land, leaving the survivors to ask themselves – How’d we get into Independence day 3? THE WAR OF THE WORLDS is a SF novel from H.