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October 5, 2018

NYCC 2018: New Mortal Engines Trailer

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Oh yeah….Peter Jackson was working on a movie about giant cities on wheels that attack and eat each other, wasn’t he? It’s been a year since we’ve heard anything from Mortal Engines. Not only is it still a thing, it’s coming out in two months. NYCC brought us the latest trailer… Mortal Engines takes place in a post-apocalyptic Europe in an area known as The Great Hunting Ground, which encompasses most of the European and part of the Asian continents. Sometime in the past, human civilization was fundamentally changed by an event known as the Sixty Minute War, implied to be a frenzy of nuclear exchange between America and China. Since then, a civilization has oriented itself around “traction cities,” the core sci-fi concept of the movie, and the Great Hunting Ground is the largest concentration of them. It’s a very strange idea, but at least it’s original, which is something you can’t say for just about everything else it’s competing against this December. Jackson co-wrote the script along with

December 18, 2017

In A World Where Cities Eat Each Other: Peter Jackson’s Mortal Engines

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For those of you who bemoan how unoriginal Hollywood usually is, this one’s for you: an upcoming movie about cities that battle each other. Not the people in the cities. The cities literally fight each other by rolling around on large wheels and firing weapons at each other. What does that look like? Like this: The concept comes from a young adult novel that came out back in 2001. The story follows Tom Natsworthy, an apprentice in the Guild of Historians in the small traveling town of Salthook. Then London shows up — the entirety of London — and fires hooks-and-chains at Salthook, then eats it. The trailer is composed entirely of this scene. Robert Sheehan stars as Tom Natsworthy, alongside Hugo Weaving and Hera Hilmar. Though the film bears Peter Jackson’s name, the actual directing duties went to newbie Christian Rivers, previously known for storyboard work inside Jackson’s empire. Watch out for Mortal Engines when it comes for you in 2018.