Ice Cube says he shot Amazon's infamous War of the Worlds movie completely alone during the pandemic: "the director wasn’t in there, none of the actors was in there"

Ice Cube stares intensely at a computer monitor in War of the Worlds — (Image credit: Prime Video)

It's starting to make sense why Amazon's War of the Worlds movie flopped so hard, as star Ice Cube says he shot his scenes completely alone without a director due to the pandemic.

“This is a movie I did in 2020 during the pandemic, five years ago,” said Ice Cube to influencer Kai Cenat's livestream. “We shot it in 15 days, and it was during the pandemic. So, the director wasn’t in there, none of the actors was in there. This was the only way we could really shoot the movie. It’s pandemic time.”

The movie is based on H.G. Wells’ 1898 sci-fi novel of the same name, but strays from its source material, choosing to tell the tale from computer screens only, using the webcam function to connect actors. However, Ice Cube says that this was because the film was shot during COVID-19, and actors had to abide by social distancing rules. “That’s why it’s only the computer screen," explained the star. "But really, if shit went down, everybody would only have their screen to look at.”