• Welcome! The TrekBBS is the number one place to chat about Star Trek with like-minded fans.
    If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Mortal Engines Pre-Release Thread

JD

JD

Fleet Admiral
Admiral
Based on the novel of the same name by Phillip Reeve, Mortal Engines is produced by Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit director Peter Jackson, and directed by Jackson's long time friend and collaborator Christian Rivers. Jackson also co-wrote the scrip with regular co-writers Fran Walsh and Phillipa Boyens.
Description from the official website said:
Thousands of years after civilization was destroyed by a cataclysmic event, humankind has adapted and a new way of living has evolved. Gigantic moving cities now roam the Earth, ruthlessly preying upon smaller traction towns. Tom Natsworthy - who hails from a Lower Tier of the great traction city of London - finds himself fighting for his own survival after he encounters the dangerous fugitive Hester Shaw. Two opposites, whose paths should never have crossed, forge an unlikely alliance that is destined to change the course of the future.
Click to expand...
Cast:
Hera Hilmar as Hester Shaw
Robert Sheehan as Tom Natsworthy
Hugo Weaving as Thaddeus Valentine
Jihae as Anna Fang
Ronan Rafferty as Bevis Pod
Leila George as Katherine Valentine
Patrick Malahide as Magnus Crome
Stephen Lang as Shrike (a CGI character)
Colin Salmon as Chudleigh Pomeroy
Rege-Jean Page as Captain Khora
Leif Sigurdarson as Nils Lindstrom
Mark Hadlow as Orme Wreyland
Sophie Cox as Clytie Potts
Aaron Jackson as Gench
Stephen Ure as Pewsey
Kee Chan as Govenor Kwan
Mark Mitchinson as Vambrace

Teaser:
To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Trailer:
To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

I haven't read the book, but I'm a big fan of Peter Jackson, and the trailers look awesome.
 
Sounds like it's going to fizzle out like the "Mazerunner". It looks really cliche

From

- Post apocalyptic wasteland
- Last of our kind
- Chosen one female chick who is broken and has a love interest that helps her overcome it
-Being forced to runaway mid way through the movie and coming back with some rebel's who know what's going on.

Even the dialogue sounds hokey
"Nothing can stand in the face of this!"

It's a parody of every YA movie made so far
 
I found the teaser very intriguing, mainly just because it had a city on wheels. It's hard not to be impressed by a city on wheels. But the full trailer didn't really live up to that promise with the dialogue, acting and plot all seeming pretty weak.
 
Looks very interesting but while I don't know the story I feel the trailer gave away too much.
 
Samurai8472 said:
Sounds like it's going to fizzle out like the "Mazerunner". It looks really cliche

From

- Post apocalyptic wasteland
- Last of our kind
- Chosen one female chick who is broken and has a love interest that helps her overcome it
-Being forced to runaway mid way through the movie and coming back with some rebel's who know what's going on.

Even the dialogue sounds hokey
"Nothing can stand in the face of this!"

It's a parody of every YA movie made so far
Click to expand...

The only response I have to this is: Read the novels.

Like he did with the LotR and Hobbit films, Peter Jackson and his team, including director Christian Rivers, have faithfully captured the essense and spirit of Phillip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet and its setting and very faithfully adapted the plot of the first novel.
 
Last edited:
New "A Look Inside" featurette
To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.
 
Nice!! Something not Superhero is always welcome! Looking forward to this...while I do like keep the summer to keep going as it is now....something to see when the eternal grey and rain returns!
 
That featurette was great. December can seriously not get here quick enough for me, because I don't think I've been this excited for a non-comics-based movie in a long time.
 
Very keen for this movie series!

Have read all the books and associated prequel stories (although there’s technically X1 outstanding book to come, in the Fever Crumb quartet...) and am looking very forward to seeing the first movie (which incidentally is filmed in my home city of Wellington, New Zealand!) :D

Can’t wait!
 
I'm interested in this but now that I have seen this trailer and oops sorry for posting another thread. Sorry mod people, but after seeing this I want Peter Jackson to do a Dishonored movie.

Also this made me want to watch John Carter again because as soon as I saw the city with those tiny legs that's what I thought of.

Also the dialogue does feel hokey
 
I found some new videos

Hester Shaw teaser trailer

A Look Inside
To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Hester Shaw featurette
To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Tom Natsworthy
To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.
 
Unattractive heroic book characters are rarely ever unattractive in the adaptations.
 
JD said:
Unattractive heroic book characters are rarely ever unattractive in the adaptations.
Click to expand...

I know.... I'd love someone one day to take a risk and do a future book / movie on any story and make it more faithful where there are characters who are not so pretty. Not this story itself but you know what I mean.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Sign up / Register


Back
Top