“And now, as we see American adventure abroad’ he (David Koepp} continues ‘in my mind it’s certainly back to it’s original meaning, which is that the Martians in our movie represent American military forces invading the Iraqis, and the futility of the occupation of a faraway land is again the subtext�
“I think the whole war [in the movie] is about water,” he says. “I figure their planet ran out. Wars tend to be fought over very elemental things: water, land, oil.”
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The unoriginal scab-writer must be familiar with “The Man Who Fell To Earth,” directed by Nicolas Roeg about a Martian coming to Earth for water…