![]() Lucas has said that he, Rod and Alan Young continued to meet to discuss story ideas. Fontana, famed for her work in the Star Trek universe.įontana wrote an outline for a sequel, as did Alan Young. Plus, Rod notes, “I was an honorary member.” Mysteries RemainĪs mentioned in Part 2, many people involved in the creation of “Time Machine: The Journey Back” were enthusiastic about going on to produce a full sequel to “The Time Machine.” They included director Clyde Lucas Rod Taylor and Alan Young film historian Bob Burns and his wife, Kathy and screenwriter D.C. It’s one of the last standing examples that era. It was built in 1625 and survived the Great Fire in 1666. The Wig and Pen was a members-only club, located across from the Royal Courts of Justice, where lawyers and journalists exchanged court gossip. ![]() Rod suggests a location that could be used – the Wig and Pen Club in London. It’s unclear where this would fit into the plot, but his notations are fun. Rod’s notes also refer to the Great Fire of London. As Rod said in a 1994 magazine article, “We’ll go backward in time instead of into the future.” Still Standing The idea possibly was to take Filby with him back to Atlantis. Then, George changes into his familiar 1890s jacket for the journey in time to get Filby. Rod’s notes do not describe what happens next, but he writes that Acron will remain in the past to create a statue of the Time Machine and George, wearing the costume of Atlantis. He proposes that there is only one villain: a beautiful aristocratic woman perhaps. The Atlanteans are beautiful, tall good guys, Rod writes. The people of the distant past are giants – gentle web-footed servants who saved the Atlanteans from drowning when Atlantis was engulfed. George and Acron arrive at a white temple (Stonehenge location?). Then, it’s on to visit the survivors from the submerging of Atlantis. On one of their first stops, they meet the druids in 1500 BC, but move on at George’s insistence. (For this sequel concept, the time machine now has a passenger seat, as Rod mentions at the end of Part 2.) I had lost my children and now my beloved wife.”Īfter the funeral, George and an Eloi friend, Acron, travel in time to the distant past. I felt not like a man, but the empty shell of a man. Another scene would show a solemn group of mourners, with George’s narration telling us, “It was over. This idyllic existence is shattered when the Morlocks return and kidnap Weena, George and their young son and daughter. The Morlocks have been vanquished and the Eloi have become artists and craftsmen – kind of “brilliant hippies.” George has taught them with the benefit of “the three books” from the original 1960 movie. Stonehenge.įrom there, Rod proposes scenes that would show how the Eloi had progressed after George returned to the future and built a life with Weena. They demand proof of time travel! What will convince them? A photograph from the distant past! Maybe Henry VIII. “I believe in my friend.”īut the fuddy duddies don’t believe. “The property is not for sale,” Filby declares amid jeering, mustachioed audience members. The film would open with Filby giving a lecture to a “pompous scientific gathering of fuddy duddies.” He’s reading from the journal of his friend George, the Time Traveler, as he fights to preserve George’s house as an historic monument. Spoiler alert! That may actually be the end of the movie. What if, Rod muses, we duplicate but improve upon the Time Traveler’s return to the laboratory as depicted in “ Time Machine: The Journey Back”? But this time he would go earlier, to 1911, to talk to a newspaper friend and somehow trick Philby out of dying in World War I. Rod’s notes are fragmentary, but we can puzzle out a bit of the story. Well, Part 3 brings some of those ideas together, based on five pages of notes that were hand-written by Rod Taylor in the mid- to late-1990s. Remember in Part 1, there was an idea for a sequel to “The Time Machine” that featured going back in time to Atlantis?Īnd in Part 2, scripts were being developed that would have the Time Traveler rescue his friend Filby from perishing in World War I?
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