I have read the book and have seen the movie, I love each in their own right. I was hoping when I first heard about them making a new movie that it would be a more direct adaptation of the book rather than just a remake of the movie, but beggers can't be choosers. I hope this new movie can live up to the high standards I've set the old one at.
Anyway, there's another production company that made a faithful adaptation of the book set in the lat 1800s. It will be coming out a few weeks before the Spielberg version but I'm not sure on it's release.
H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds