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20 years ago, H.G. Wells’ great-grandson reimagined a time travel classic

For The Time Machine ’s 20th anniversary, Simon Wells gets candid about remaking an iconic sci-fi adventure.

In 2002, H.G. Wells’ classic 1895 novella, The Time Machine , was given a glossy modern makeover as a Hollywood feature directed by the legendary author’s great-grandson, British filmmaker Simon Wells.

Before stepping into The Time Machine , Wells cut his teeth with animation work on blockbuster movies like Who Framed Roger Rabbit? before helming DreamWorks classics like An American Tail: Fievel Goes West , Balto , and The Prince of Egypt .

The 2002 film was the second attempt to bring the clock-spinning story to the silver screen, with the first being a beloved 1960 adaptation delivered by special effects wizard George Pal and starring Rod Taylor as the ambitious inventor. Guy Pearce ( L.A. Confidential , Memento ) took the starring role in the new Time Machine and plays Alexander Hartdegen, a late 19th century Columbia University physics professor whose fiancée (Sienna Guillory) is accidentally murdered during a robbery.

His grief drives him to complete a fantastic machine to travel through time and change the tragedy’s outcome. When he discovers that fate can’t be altered, he heads into the far future and encounters a race of savage creatures called the Morlock who have enslaved primitive humans called the Eloi. Hartdegen meets an Eloi, named Mara (Samantha Mumba), and together they begin an uprising to stop the Morlocks’ brutal reign.

THE RULES OF TIME TRAVEL is an Inverse special issue exploring the evolution of science fiction's most imaginative sub-genre. From Marty McFly to Avengers: Endgame .

Screenwriter John Logan combined elements from Wells’ story with a romantic tragedy and changed the setting from London to New York City. Several new characters, such as a humorous AI (Orlando Jones) and a sinister Morlock overlord (Jeremy Irons) also help freshen things up.

The Time Machine represented Simon Wells’ first foray into complex live-action features, and at times, he felt woefully unprepared for the project’s $80 million budget.

“I was surrounded by incredibly smart and good people on The Time Machine who saved me from making an absolute ass of myself,” Simon Wells tells Inverse .

In our interview with Wells, the director speaks about the pressures of adapting his famous ancestor’s iconic novel, manifesting the Morlocks’ animatronic masks, and the whereabouts of the actual time machine prop today.

The following conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity.

Simon Wells at the helm of the time machine.

INVERSE: How does The Time Machine hold up for you two decades after its release?

SIMON WELLS: I’ve got to be honest; I don’t go back and watch movies I’ve made. Way back in the beginning of my career, I was Supervising Animator on Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and it was about six years before I could see part of it without memories of the making of the movie overwhelming me. It was a good 10 years before I could actually see the movie the way other people saw it. There tend to be painful memories that make you flinch deep inside.

“I said, ‘Hey guys, I really ought to be directing this because, you know, the name!’”

How did you become attached to Time Machine, and, being part of the Wells legacy, did the job come with added pressures?

The project moved around a good deal. Originally, Brad Silberling was going to direct it, then Steven Spielberg decided he wanted it. Then he was going to go off to do something else, and it went back to Brad, but he’d moved on. So they were looking around for a director. I’d just come off The Prince of Egypt, and I threw my name in the ring because I had an interest in getting into live-action.

I said, “Hey guys, I really ought to be directing this because, you know, the name!”

Steven really liked that idea, and I’d worked with him for many years by then. So I just kind of got offered the gig. Looking back, it was far too big a movie given my limited experience in live-action.

The film’s early segments capture the feel of 19th-century New York.

What was the biggest adjustment going from animation to live-action?

It was a combination of the sense of personal responsibility and the sheer punishing schedule of getting something like that done. The director of an animation feature has a lot of people around him, and you have time to fix things. It doesn’t all have to get done that day because you’re shooting and you don’t have the location tomorrow.

The ambition of it was huge. The actual process: how to put shots together, how to build up a scene, that’s very similar to animation. The hard part was dealing with the sheer stress and logistics of it all. You have a bunch of people helping you and organizing everything though.

“I didn’t really know as much about the story as I should have.”

When we’d roll out to the location at Sand Canyon Ranch in Santa Clarita, you’d see this circus of tents and trailers, and I’d think, “Holy cow, the number of people that are on this movie!” The actors go for touch-ups and makeup while the grips set up the cameras and the electrical guys are changing the lights and you’re aware that thousands of dollars are ticking away and you’re just sitting there twiddling your thumbs. The stress is enormous.

Jeremy Irons plays a telepathic overlord, a character absent from the novel.

What elements of the original H.G. Wells novel were important to retain?

I came into that movie after a lot of work had been done developing the story. I didn’t really know as much about the story as I should have. I was more the director for hire, and I didn’t know enough to exert influence. I had more impact on the overall look of the movie and had great fun working with [production designer] Ollie Scholl in designing the time machine.

What was it like working with Guy Pearce and forming the time traveler’s character?

Guy is an interesting actor. I was keen on casting him because of Memento , where he was immensely charming and unguarded. I think it’s one of the best things he’s ever been in. As an actor, he has an immense amount of experience. He’s worked with good directors and very bad directors. He defends himself by having rehearsed what he’s going to do very carefully and that protects him against inexperienced directors, like me.

He had a clear idea of what he wanted to do and was not interested in free-forming anything. That was probably a good thing because I didn’t know much about directing actors. He was always there, always prepared, always professional, and never late to set.

What were your associations with the 1960 version of The Time Machine?

It is a good movie. I remember seeing it as a kid, and it deeply affected me. It’s a pretty straightforward adventure movie, and there are a lot of things about it that are terrific. For its time, the visual effects are pretty impressive. It was very much a B-movie in terms of its budget.

The villainous Morlocks, who had serious vision problems.

You had an all-star team of visual effects firms working on The Time Machine . What was the collaboration with these famous crews like?

The Morlock design was great fun. Had I known more about it going in, I would have had the design slightly differently. For the Morlock faces, the actors don’t actually see out through those eyes, those eyes are animatronic. They’re seeing out through a little camera in the nose. They had these little TV screens on glasses that were right in front of their eyes. I feel really bad for those stuntmen. It was an impossible thing to have to work inside, and they did a tremendous job.

Nowadays, every movie employs every visual effects firm out there. It’s hilarious. You sit and watch the credits for Marvel movies and wonder if there’s anybody that didn’t work on this film. That was all starting to happen way back then, to have multiple visual effects houses doing stuff. Industrial Light & Magic did the CG Morlock sequences, Stan Winston did the actual physical things, and the rest was Digital Domain.

“It was a million-dollar prop so they weren’t going to let me have it.”

Where did that elaborate time machine prop from the movie end up?

Warner Bros. has it. It was a million-dollar prop so they weren’t going to let me have it. Also, it weighed like a ton and a half. That central bulb had the transmission of a Buick built in it and this huge five-horsepower electric motor so you don’t just put it in the back of your car. Plus, the sphere has a diameter of something like 10 feet.

It was in the Warner museum. I got to go visit it once, but since then it’s been relegated to one of those Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouses filled with movie stuff. It’s a pity because it genuinely looked good. It’s a shame it’s not on display in one of the theme parks somewhere.

Guy Pearce in The Time Machine .

Having immersed yourself in the subject, do you believe in the possibility of time travel?

The difficulty with time travel is that if it existed, we would already know about it. Unless we happen to be on one of the timelines where it doesn’t happen. There’s a logical conundrum involved in time travel, which is why I’ve never done another time travel story since.

Are we going to do the multiverse idea where if you go into the past and alter even the slightest thing, the future you come into is not the one you left? That’s what they played around with in Back to the Future II and III .

Did you keep any mementos from the sets of The Time Machine?

I have one of the control levers from the time machine, which is beautiful. It’s turned brass with a crystal on top. And I got one of the watches that got crushed in the time machine mechanism. They built a bunch of lead replicas they could drag in for multiple takes, so I kept one of those.

Looking back, I was surrounded by incredibly smart and good people on The Time Machine who saved me from making an absolute ass of myself. I am grateful to the people who dragged that movie through for me. I rode on their shoulders to an amazing extent.

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The Time Machine

“The Time Machine” is a witless recycling of the H.G. Wells story from 1895, with the absurdity intact but the wonderment missing. It makes use of computer-aided graphics to create a future race of grubby underground beasties, who like the characters in “Battleship Earth” have evolved beyond the need for bathing and fingernail clippers. Since this race–the Morlocks–is allegedly a Darwinian offshoot of humans, and since they are remarkably unattractive, they call into question the theory that over a long period of time a race grows more attractive through natural selection. They are obviously the result of 800,000 years of ugly brides.

The film stars Guy Pearce as Alexander Hartdegen, a brilliant mathematician who hopes to use Einstein’s earliest theories to build a machine to travel through time. He is in love with the beautiful Emma ( Sienna Guillory ), but on the very night when he proposes marriage, a tragedy happens, and he vows to travel back in time in his new machine and change the course of history.

The machine, which lacks so much as a seat belt, consists of whirling spheres encompassing a Victorian club chair. Convenient brass gauges spin to record the current date. Speed and direction are controlled by a joystick. The time machine has an uncanny ability to move in perfect synchronization with the Earth, so that it always lands in the same geographical spot, despite the fact that in the future large chunks of the moon (or all of it, according to the future race of Eloi) have fallen to the Earth, which should have had some effect on the orbit. Since it would be inconvenient if a time machine materialized miles in the air or deep underground, this is just as well.

We will not discuss paradoxes of time travel here, since such discussion makes any time travel movie impossible. Let us discuss instead an unintended journey, which Hartdegen makes to 8,000 centuries in the future, when Homo sapiens has split in two, into the Eloi and Morlocks. The Morlocks evolved underground in the dark ages after the moon’s fall, and attack on the surface by popping up through dusty sinkholes. They hunt the Eloi for food. The Eloi are an attractive race of brown-skinned people whose civilization seems modeled on paintings by Rousseau; their life is an idyll of leafy bowers, waterfalls and elegant forest structures, but they are such fatalists about the Morlocks that instead of fighting them off, they all but salt and pepper themselves.

Alexander meets a beautiful Eloi woman named Mara ( Samantha Mumba ) and her sturdy young brother, befriends them and eventually journeys to the underworld to try to rescue her. This brings him into contact with the Uber-Morlock, a chalk-faced Jeremy Irons , who did not learn his lesson after playing an evil Mage named Profion in “Dungeons & Dragons.” In broad outline, this future world matches the one depicted in George Pal’s 1960 film “The Time Machine,” although its blond, blue-eyed race of Eloi have been transformed into dusky sun people. One nevertheless tends to question romances between people who were born 800,000 years apart and have few conversations on subjects other than not being eaten. Convenient, that when humankind was splitting into two different races, both its branches continued to speak English.

The Morlocks and much of their world have been created by undistinguished animation. The Morlock hunters are supposed to be able to leap great distances with fearsome speed, but the animation turns them into cartoonish characters whose movements defy even the laws of gravity governing bodies in motion. Their movements are not remotely plausible, and it’s disconcerting to see that while the Eloi are utterly unable to evade them, Irons, a professor who has scarcely left his laboratory for four years, is able to duck out of the way, bean them with big tree branches, etc.

Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. Irons at least knows what kind of movie he’s in, and hams it up accordingly. Pearce seems thoughtful, introspective, quiet, morose. Surely the inventor of a time machine should have a few screws loose, and the glint in his eye should not be from tears.

By the end of the movie, as he stands beside the beautiful Eloi woman and takes her hand, we are thinking, not of their future together, but about how he got from the Morlock caverns to the top of that mountain ridge in time to watch an explosion that takes only a few seconds. A Morlock could cover that distance, but not a mathematician, unless he has discovered worm holes as well.

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Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.

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• Mark Addy as Dr. Philby
• Orlando Jones as Vox
• Sienna Guillory as Emma
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If one were to try to define the genre of “New Age music,” we could do it in four words: The music of 2002. With their consummate ability to create beautiful, otherworldly music that transports listeners to serene and contemplative spaces with ease and grace, the group has solidified their place at the table of this genre with an illustrious career spanning over three decades.

Consisting of the family members Randy Copus, Pamela Copus, and with the addition of their quite immensely talented daughter, Sarah Copus – whose powerful vocals outshine even Enya – their music blends elements of New Age, ambient, and contemporary instrumental styles resulting in immersive soundscapes that evoke a sense of deep peace, tranquility, relaxation, and introspection in the listener. Their often Billboard charting work is undeniably and blissfully celestial.

Their new album, released June 7, 2024, is “Time Traveler.” Aptly named, the melodious, heavenly music on each one of the ten tracks on the album, transports us easily to another time and space where we get completely immersed in a gorgeous sea of infinity.

The album opens with the utterly beautiful, “The Morning Breeze.” Lush synths, strings, and the gorgeous violin of guest artist, James Song add to the atmospheric ambiance, and we are off on our journey.  Following is the equally luscious, “Falling Stars.” Here, our imaginations drift to a place way beyond this place where we are being bathed in the amazing feeling of being surrounded by magnificent celestial bodies and starlight all around us. What an incredible song.

What I truly love about 2002’s music is their ability to create captivating melodies and bring forth an effortless expansiveness surpassed by none. “Seasons Fade” is one of those. It’s wonderful with its soft and engaging piano melody, synths, and ethereal quality, further deepening our appreciation of this music.

Feeling like a soothing lullaby, “Love of My Life” is outstanding as well with flutes, strings, keyboards, and heavenly etheric voices. The richly woven-in cello of guest artist, Dan Totan, makes this extra special. The title track is softy, mysterious, and deeply intriguing, and truly speaks to the timeless nature of the universe. This essence of “eternal” is so perfectly illustrated here.

“The End of the Journey” helps us feel as if there really is no end.  The voyage of life continues on beyond what we can comprehend. This is quite angelic in every way with its soft keyboards and heavenly wordless vocals.

I’m fairly certain almost every person here has wondered what is beyond this earthly “veil.” Here, in the quite gentle “Beyond the Veil,” we can readily sense the love that we all originate from and shall perhaps return to one day.

You’re familiar with that endless-seeming song lyric, “Row, row, row your boat. . .life is but a dream?” Maybe it is. “The Essence of a Dream” has a beyond dreamy quality with lushly flowing layers of flute, soft voices, and strings. How very beautiful this is in every way, and the word “atmospheric” doesn’t even begin to describe it.

A very tender, relaxing keyboard melody intertwines with soft angelic voices in “Adrift in Memory.” This is one you could just easily float out to. In fact, the entire album – which you will want to get, not just one song – is deeply relaxing, quintessential tranquility, and perfect for meditation, peaceful slumber, spa, healing modalities, and even study/focus music.

This beautiful album closes out with the absolutely exquisite, “Where You Are.” The vocals here are astoundingly beautiful, and along with the rest, will leave you in speechless amazement. This is 50 minutes of timeless, ageless beauty and wonderment. Yes, get the whole thing.

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The Time Traveler , also known as Denton Morris , Moses , Sir William Reynolds , and other names, is a scientist who is the inventor of The Time Machine . He's also a temporal explorer, using his time machine to explore different times and realities.

• 1.1 Early Life
• 1.2 Invention of the Time Machine
• 1.3 Morlocks & Eloi
• 1.4 Far Future
• 1.5 Morlocks of the Sphere
• 1.6 Return to the Past
• 1.7 Prehistoric Times
• 1.8 A Changed Home
• 1.9 Return and Weena's Rescue
• 2.1 In The Time Machine (1960)
• 2.2 In The Time Machine (1978)
• 2.3 In The Time Machine (2002)
• 2.4 Other continuities
• 3.1 In Continuity
• 3.2 Other Continuities
• 4.1 In the Novels
• 4.2 In other media

History [ ]

Early life [ ].

As a young man, The Time Traveler, who at the time called himself " Moses ", was a disorganized scientist, whose interests had him following optics. He was approached by a man named Gottfried Plattner , who offered him a mysterious substance called Plattnerite . With this material, he was able to start looking into the construction of a working Time Machine. (" The Time Ships ")

According to another account, the substance was found in a meteorite, which the Time Traveler purchased from a farmer. (" The Wee Time Traveler ")

He was one of the most well-known scientists in England, as of 1893. He owned a Horseless Carriage , and had set a speed record of just over 17 miles per hour. His apprentice was A. Fitzgibbon , of whom he had legal guardianship after the death of her parents. (" The Space Machine ")

He had also invented a number of other machines, powered by the same crystaline substance. He had a failed Flying Machine , which would fly by flapping its wings like a bird, as well as a mechanical bicycle, which was a success but which he'd chosen not to release to the public. (" The Space Machine ")

Invention of the Time Machine [ ]

The Time Traveler was able to assemble a complex machine using the plattnerite. Upon its completion, he arranged a get-together with some of his friends to discuss the invention the following evening. However, before that time, he tested the machine, taking it all the way forward into the year 802,701 AD. (" The Time Machine ")

Morlocks & Eloi [ ]

Some Eloi with the Time Traveler, in one of their domes.

In that year, he explored the future world that at first seemed paradisaical to him. He soon encountered the playful Eloi , a humanoid species descended from modern-day man. He imagined them to be quiet masters of the world, having perfected technology so that they needn't do any work. However, he soon discovered that his Time Machine had gone missing, and the Eloi seemed ignorant. After further exploration, he soon encountered the Morlocks , subterranean nocturnal creatures, also descended from humans, who fed, dressed, and later ate the Eloi. The Time Traveler befriended Weena , an eloi girl who accompanied him on many of his explorations across the world. Unfortunately, in the end, he was unable to protect her from the Morlocks, who made off with her in the forest. Finally, the Time Traveler discovered his machine, which the Morlocks were using as bait to get him into the Morlock Sphinx . The Time Traveler took the bait, knowing he could dematerialize the machine by traveling in time. Although the Morlocks ambushed him as he boarded the machine, he was able to fight them off and travel into the future. (" The Time Machine ")

Far Future [ ]

The Time Traveler stands on the beach in the far future.

He proceeded further into the future, seeing new animal forms, such as hairy, grey mammals which he theorized might have been descendants of the Eloi. These creatures were preyed on by a gigantic centipede-like creature. (" The Grey Man ")

In another era, he saw a race of red crab-like creatures pursuing giant mammalian butterflies . Finally, he witnessed one side of the Earth come to face the sun, with no more day and night cycle. As the Earth's atmosphere thinned, The Time Traveler could go no further and decided to return to his own time, where he recounted his adventures to his friends at the dinner party. Shortly thereafter, he decided to return to the future to find and rescue Weena; he was never seen again by his friends. (" The Time Machine ")

Morlocks of the Sphere [ ]

When the Time Traveler boarded the Time Machine again, this time more prepared, having brought along matches and supplies and tools, he discovered that something had changed. As he traveled through time, he saw the sun go dark long before the world of the Eloi and the Morlocks. Stopping at an earlier era, he investigated the year 657,209 . There, the sun was dark and the Earth was kept warm by heat eminating from a series of vents that resembled the Morlock Wells he'd seen in his previous voyage to futurity. He was soon surrounded by several Morlocks, and bashed one of them in the head, causing severe injury. He was then subdued and taken into custody aboard a massive Morlock Sphere surrounding the sun, which was the new primary habitat for Humanity. There, he was questioned by one Morlock who identified himself as Nebogipfel . Nebogipfel soon made it clear that the Morlocks of this era were a civilized species who certainly didn't make a habit of cannibalism. Nebogipfel gave the Time Traveler a tour of the future world, after which The Time Traveler decided he could never live in this future and attempted escape. With Nebogipfel, he returned to Earth, where he jumped onto the Time Machine and escaped. Nebogipfel, who tried to stop him, fell onto the machine in the struggle and was taken, too. He thus reluctantly became the Time Traveler's new companion. (" The Time Ships ")

Return to the Past [ ]

The two returned to the 19th century, though slightly earlier than the Time Traveler's time. There, they met a younger version of the Time Traveler, who used the name Moses . Soon after their meeting, a Time Tank appeared from the future and abducted the three time travelers. They were all taken to a future in which World War I had never ended and was becoming a perpetual war, devastating every country in the world. London was covered by a massive, bomb-proof dome. However, the three time travelers planned their escape from this dark era. Finally, they found a prototype Time Car and stole it. Moses didn't survive, however, having been mortally wounded in an attack on the city. He didn't make it to the time car. The two travelers then went much farther into the past. (" The Time Ships ")

Prehistoric Times [ ]

They then went back in time to far before the rise of Humans. There, they met the inhabitants of a crashed Time Tank from the era they'd just come from. The vehicle was unusable, and everyone was trapped in this era. They all formed a new colony of Humans, with Nebogipfel teaching science to accelerate the colony's development. Finally, he was able to repair the Time Car, using components from both wrecked time machines. He and the Time Traveler finally left that era, after the Time Traveler made one last contribution - by having sex with one of the women in the colony, he added to the tiny gene pool. Then, they traveled forward in time to see what had become of the human colony they'd planted far in the past. (" The Time Ships ")

A Changed Home [ ]

The Time Traveler decided to return to his home era, the 1890s, to see what it would look like in this alternate reality created by the colony they'd planted in the past. However, as they approached, the atmosphere became cold and unlivable. The Time Traveler died, as did Nebogipfel, before the Time Machine stopped. There, a race of highly advanced machines called the Universal Constructors had repaired the damage to the Time Traveler and Nebogipfel, cell by cell. They accommodated the two, who soon learned that the Universal Constructors are made of nanobots, all cooperating with one another. They planned to build a fleet of time ships to explore beyond the local set of realities. They invited the Time Traveler aboard the fleet due to his historical significance. To survive the journey, both men had to be converted into Universal Constructors. Then, the ships traveled back through time, beyond the beginning of the univers, to find another universe- an infinite one. In that universe, they were able to form a sentience that filled that entire universe. The Time Traveler and Nebogipfel were witness to this, before the sentient universe returned him to his own timeline. (" The Time Ships ")

Return and Weena's Rescue [ ]

There, he met himself in the past, and, calling himself Gottfried Plattner, gave his younger self the Plattnerite, thus causing a time loop in his history. He then decided not to return to his own age and instead went forward to 802,701 to complete his original mission. There, he rescued Weena and went about teaching the Eloi to build a new civilization. He finally got up the courage to descend into the Morlock tunnels to try and help them, as well. No account exists of his return. (" The Time Ships ")

An alternate account of these events has him stopping first in the 33rd Century to upgrade his time machine into a Time Ship that can fly through the air. Using this machine, he appeared at the exact right moment after the blaze, hovering over the scene, and recovering Weena at precisely the right moment, before taking her back to live in the 33rd century. (" Beyond the Time Machine ")

In another alternate account of Weena's rescue, the Time Traveler arrives after stopping in the 40th Century for supplies. He arrives slightly early, and his arrival attracts Weena's attention, who was sleeping alongside the Time Traveler but sensed the other Time Traveler's presence telepathically. After exploring the landscape further, Weena allowed the Star in the Dusk , a library computer, to download itself into her brain. After this was done, the two settled down in the 40th Century, hoping to create a new timeline in which humanity never degrades into Eloi and Morlock. (" The Time Machine: A Sequel ")

The Time Traveler, now going by the name of Denton Morris, had five children with Weena: two sons, and three daughters, Narra Morris , Tala Morris , and Belinda Morris . They began raising the children in 33rd century Lonn , where the half-Eloi children suffered from discrimination. This lead to Tala's suicide and Narra extensively partook in Geneing and in 20th century drugs, leading to serious health issues. The two sons also went missing. (" Beyond the Time Machine ")

Alternate Versions [ ]

In alternate continuities and timelines, The Time Traveler has many separate histories. For detailed biographies of these see their full articles.

In The Time Machine (1960) [ ]

George was an inventor and time traveler who built a time machine and then visited the far future with it. He met and fell in love with Weena , and taught her and the rest of the Eloi how to fight back against the cannibalistic Morlocks. (" The Time Machine ")

In The Time Machine (1978) [ ]

Neil Perry was a scientist working for a corrupt corporation who was able to construct a time machine. However, when he realized the company intended to use the machine for war, he stole it, fleeing into the distant future to see the outcome of his invention. (" The Time Machine ")

In The Time Machine (2002) [ ]

Alexander Hartdegen was a scientist & inventor who built a time machine, hoping to go back in time and save his dead fiance. He failed in that regard, but managed to visit the far future, where he met Mara and the Eloi. (" The Time Machine ")

Other continuities [ ]

• James Radnor (Morlocks film)
• Moses (The Time Ships)
• George Einwin (The Time Machine: Trapped in Time)
• H.G. Wells (Various)

True Name [ ]

The Time Traveler's real name was never given in the original novel, and so various adaptations have given him many different names.

In Continuity [ ]

Sources that try to maintain continuity with the original novel have given him the following names:

• Moses (last name unknown, The Time Ships )
• Denton Morris ( Beyond the Time Machine , Tangles in Time )
• Sir William Reynolds ( The Space Machine )
• Adam Dane ( The Rook )
• Bruce Clarke Wildman (Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life)
• Robert James Pensley (The Hertford Manuscript)
• Theophillus Tolliver ( Doctor Who : "The Eternal Present")
• Moesen Maddoc (Sherlock Holmes & The Coils of Time)
• Nikola Tesla (The Last Martian)

Other Continuities [ ]

Alternate versions of the time traveler include:

• George (last name unknown, 1960s film )
• H.G. Wells ( Lois & Clark , Time After Time , etc)
• Alexander Hartdegen ( 2002 film )
• Tom Spender ( Time Kid )

In "Time Kid", the character of the Time Traveler is split into two characters: the father, who invents the Time Machine, and the son, Tom Spender, who uses it to visit the future.

• Dr. James Radnor ( Morlocks )

Gallery [ ]

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In other media [ ]

• 3 The Time Machine