At the end of the 19th century, Alexander Hartdegen (Alexander Hartdegen, Guy Pierce, Guy Pearce) invented a time machine that could take him into the future 800000 years from now. There, he found that humans had evolved into two races: the Eloi and the Morlocks. H. G, a legendary science fiction writer who spans the 19th and 20th centuries. H.G.Wells wrote the classic novel time Machine. In his day, he was called "the man who can see the future". However, if you can really see the future, H.G. Wells would be surprised that his most famous novel was put on the big screen, not once, but twice. In the more than 100 years since the publication of Wells's novel, many things have changed, but Wells' vision of the future and the concept of time travel still have a strong allure to the audience. The film's producer, Walter Parkes, commented: "time goes back to the early 1960 s,'20, 000 miles under the Sea."