The Time Machine

by John Logan, directed by Simon Wells

Release: 4 March 2002
Format: Feature Film
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

This version (definitely not your grandfather’s time machine) has imaginative settings, but for me, the refactored plot was all dramatic music and no substance.

— Michael Main

You built your time machine because of Emma’s death. If she had lived, it would never have existed. So how could you use your machine to go back in time and save her? You are the inescapable result of your tragedy, just as I am the inescapable result of you. You have your answer. Now go.

DEBUT

The Time Machine (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 4 March 2002).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

PRIOR WORKS: based on The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (1895)

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Groupings

Cited in Worlds Enough and Time, edited by Gary Westfahl ()

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY: We haven’t yet mapped out the time travel itinerary.

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

The location (Los Angeles) of the premiere on 4 March 2002 is from an <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alamy.com%2Fmar-4-2002-los-angeles-california-usa-guy-pearcethe-time-machinepremiere-image64155157.html'>Alamy stock photo</a>.