The Cult of The Tripods

The Tripods is a mid-’80s television adaptation of Samuel Youd’s (writing as John Christopher) The Tripods series of novels. It was jointly produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom and the Seven Network in Australia. Disney-owned Touchstone Pictures nabbed the rights in the late ’90s, but the whole enterprise languished in development hell until Variety reported in early 2005 that director Gregor Jordan was slated to mastermind the big screen resurrection of the three-legged alien invaders. It wasn’t t