who directed it?
Steven Spielberg.
War of the Worlds (2005 film)
War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp, loosely based on the 1898 similarly-titled novel by H. G. Wells and jointly produced and released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures.
where was the movie war of the worlds filmed Virginia, Connecticut, New Jersey, California, and New York. what is its storyline? Ray Ferrier his children and  former wife "tripod" war machine emerges to destroy the area, multiple tripods that have attacked major cities around the world.
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War of the Worlds (2005 film) [SEP] Introduction
War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp, loosely based on the 1898 similarly-titled novel by H. G. Wells and jointly produced and released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures. It stars Tom Cruise with Dakota Fanning, Justin Chatwin, Miranda Otto, and Tim Robbins in supporting roles. It also features narration by Morgan Freeman. The film follows an American dock worker who is forced to look after his children, from whom he lives separately, as he struggles to protect them and reunite them with their mother when extraterrestrials invade the Earth and devastate cities with giant war machines.