Tom Cruise was scheduled to do a walk through in a background scene.
Filmed the summer and fall of 2020 with Covid Protocols.
Filmed at Universal Studios as the Spielberg/Cruise film was.
The Boeing 747 Airliner crash sight is a Pratical (actual) location at Universal Studios Hollywood
,shows such as "Crossing Jordan" used it also after the set was built for the 2005 movie.
Producer Timur Bekmambetov said he is hoping to utilize the same technology for this that he used for 2015's Unfriended, 2018's Searching and Unfriended: Dark Web, which were told entirely through computer screens. This format is known as "Screenlife" and allows for stories to be told from the point-of-view of computers or phones. As of May 2024, nothing has been announced yet how the story would be tied into the War of the Worlds.