jeff wayne's war of the worlds musical is a cool and normal.. media franchise?

[sanctumsys]

so i listened to this today

it's pretty cool. it also made me remember that there's a real-time strategy based specifically on this musical version where you can play as the martians conquering the earth
and then searching that up again i stumble into the fact that there's also an action game on playstation and now i'm wondering what the hell it is about the jeff wayne version specifically that prompted so many licensed tie-ins