Ice Cube Says He Shot His ‘War of the Worlds’ Scenes in 15 Days Without the Director or Other Actors: ‘This Was the Only Way’

Ice Cube is going behind the scenes of his latest sci-fi thriller, “War of the Worlds.”

During a recent interview with Kai Cenat, the “Friday” star said that the viral “War of the Worlds” remake was shot in 2020 during the COVID pandemic, and that his scenes were completed in 15 days without the director or any of his co-stars.

“[‘War of the Worlds’] was a movie I did in 2020 during the pandemic,” Ice Cube recalled. “We shot it in 15 days, and it was during the pandemic. So the director wasn’t in there. None of the actors was in there. This was the only way we could really shoot the movie.”

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Ice Cube explained that the movie took five years to release because it was originally shot by Universal, which then sold it to Amazon. He claimed that acquiring the rest of the footage outside of his scenes also contributed to the delay.

“All the footage is from real surveillance cameras all around the world,” he added. “So they had to build all that shit [and then collect and edit the footage].”

“War of the Worlds,” loosely adapted from H. G. Wells’ science fiction novel of the same name, quickly became a viral sensation after its trailer debuted in late July. The film was released on July 30, and during its first week on the streamer, it held the number one slot on Amazon’s most-watched list in 30 markets, including the U.S..

Ice Cube stars in “War of the Worlds” as computer security analyst William Radford, who is thrown into the center of a global catastrophe when aliens invade Earth. Other cast members include Eva Longoria, Iman Benson, Henry Hunter Hall, Clark Gregg and Devon Bostick.