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Director Wells keeps 'Time' in the family

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20020329
Author:Angela Dawson

LOS ANGELES--It seems fitting that more than a century after renowned English novelist H.G. Wells published his science fiction classic The Time Machine, his great-grandson should bring Wells' time- travel novel to the big screen.

But Simon Wells says he was drawn to the $70 million project because of the endless possibilities that the story offered visually- -not because of the family connection.

"Fundamentally, this is the kind of movie I like going to see when I go to the theater," says the boyish 40-year-old director. "When you come right down to it, I like going to the theater to see some ...

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