Simon Wells is quoted in Variety as saying this new version of the story is "Getting the family hands back on the project," since the Wells family hasn't had the movie rights to the novel for decades.

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The bathtub of HG Wells is not large. It sits even today in a private house in Essex, a sympathetic 18th-century residence where Wells and family spent much of the First World War. The tub is ...