Things to Come

Before starting work on the film all relevant to the modeling and execution of costumes and scenery for the final part of the film was created with a Memorandum that outlined the basic requirements for scenery and costumes. In this Memorandum, the future "Face of the future" were sharply opposed to the "Metropolis".

This film can be considered to be owned by Herbert George wells — he wrote in explanation of his nonfiction book "the Shape of the future", participated in the selection of actors, explaining to them objectives on set, supervised the work of costume designers, approved by film composer Arthur bliss.

November 17, 1936, the film was shown at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, where he was seen by Mikhail Bulgakov with his wife. Elena Sergeevna Bulgakova wrote in her diary: "the Reception at the military attache of Faymonville in the house of the American Ambassador. Two of the film. First, according to wells, is "the Future" ("Future") is about a future war. The beginning is very strong, the end is contrived, unconvincing...".

It is believed that wells was unprecedented for a writer control over the creation of the film. He personally supervised almost every aspect of the production. On the posters of the film was written by "H. G. Wells" THINGS TO COME" ("the face of the upcoming" G. wells), below, in smaller letters, was written "an Alexander Korda production" (production of Alexander Korda). In fact, however, wells has not received control over the installation. The result is a large number of captured scenes included in the film was not. The original version of the film had a duration of 130 minutes

Wells originally wanted the music was recorded before shooting of the film and the film thus had to be built "around" music. But this approach was deemed too radical, and the soundtrack work of composer Arthur bliss was "imposed" on the film after the shooting, in accordance with the traditional way of scoring. Concert Suite based on music to the film has maintained popularity, as of 2003 continued to be issued about half a dozen different recordings of this work.

After the start of filming to work on the film was invited to the Hungarian abstract artist lászló Moholy-Nagy, which was to create effects that accompany scene recovery Africaone. Moholy-Nagy created the desired effects in the form of an abstract light show but only 90 seconds of the implemented material included in the film (as a translucent projection, through which are visible the working of the construction machine, and the built building). In the fall of 1975, however, researchers have discovered four previously unknown scenes of this show not included in the final cut.

The film is notable for its prediction of world war II. The author Hg wells guessed the beginning of the war, but made a mistake with the date of the beginning of the war only four months in his book "the Shape of the future" (The Shape of Things to Come), published in September 1933. Wells wrote that a Second World war will start with bloody clashes between Germans and poles in Danzig in January 1940.

Depicted in the film strategic bombing in the scenes where Africaon destroyed by air attack and society sinking to the barbaric level, talking about the dangers of bombing. In many ways, these scenes foretold real events of the Second world war. Sam wells was known for his predictions of fighting use of aircraft, for example, in 1908, he wrote the novel "War in the air", in 1913, the "Liberated world" in which he described a nuclear war.