Hey, good afternoon, partner! Do you know the films of Orson Welles?
have you read citizen Kane? 
Read it? You mean the screenplay by Mankiewicz?
he was born in Kenosha.you know where that is?
Mank? In Wisconsin? Yes, I think I knew that.
War of the Worlds great book
H.G. Wells. Yes, a very fine book. Fun radio broadcast by Welles in the late-30s. Scared everyone on the East Coast to death.
they made into a series 
It's been filmed at least twice by Byron Haskin in the early-'50s and Spielberg in the 2000s. There have been several UK TV series, I think.
89 years now that the war of the world was written 
Longer ago than that, I think. Around the turn of the 20th Century. First serialized in a magazine.