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Peter Jackson to adapt Mortal Engines and Temeraire

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Hmmm.... i've never heard of these books before, are they any good?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/3184223/Peter-Jackson-to-adapt-sci-fi-series

Peter Jackson is secretly working to adapt the Mortal Engines fantasy novels for the screen.



The hush-hush project is understood to be in early development, with work on the first of the four books under way, industry sources say.



Weta Workshops is also believed to be working on designs for the science fiction series, which features giant mobile cities.
A spokesman for Jackson did not deny the project was on the books yesterday, but said "any comment should come from Peter".



Jackson, who is understood to have had the rights to the books for some time, was unavailable for comment.
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Jackson has also optioned the rights to the historic-fantasy Temeraire novels, which tell an alternative version of the Napoleonic Wars where tame dragons are used for aerial attacks.
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The Temeraire novels are fantastic.... 5 novels I believe... I listened to them on audiobook.... the better way to read... I hope he does them justice. Nice alternate universe that was created there... horatio hornblower with dragons...
 
They announced Jackson doing Temerarire about 2-3 years ago. It's what got me to read the first three books. I didn't enjoy them, they were very long winded and tedious, like they were actually written in the 1800s ;)
 
When I saw a snippet of the thread title on the main page, I thought he was doing Mortal Kombat. :lol:
 
I thought the first Temeraire book was great. Afterwards, I struggled to finish the 2nd and gave up during the third.
 
When I saw this thread title I thought Mortal Engines referred to the Stanislaw Lem novel, which I couldn't believe. Turns out to be justifiably so.
 
Jackson recently said that if he can make the financing work he might adapt Temeraire as a big budget TV miniseries since that would allow him to tell a complete epic story without having to worry about whether a movie made enough at the box office to allow the story to continue in a sequel.
 
that's more logical then a movie, there's a lot of story to tell even in the first book. and if you try to include all five....
 
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I thought the first Temeraire book was great. Afterwards, I struggled to finish the 2nd and gave up during the third.
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Similar reading arc for me.

I thought the first book was very good, but not great. The major problem I had with it was that the writing could be unclear. Until I got the Del Rey paperbacks, I had no idea how the "rigging" on a dragon actually worked. (I imported the first book as a hardcover from the UK, and it didn't have the rigging diagram.) And I never quite warmed to Laurence as a character.

The second book was a chore. The third never hooked me. I have the fourth and fifth, but I've yet to break the spine on either.

I'd love to see a movie, though. (I picture Rufus Sewell as Laurence.) And I had, for a time, Todd Lockwood's painting of Temeraire in flight over a British naval squadron as my desktop wallpaper.

There must have been something in the water five years ago; Mike Resnick wrote a similar book entitled Dragon America, which posited that dragons were used during the American Revolution.
 
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