Mortal Engines (2018)

Name: Mortal Engines
Director: Christian Rivers
Released: 2018-12-12
Rating: 1.00

spronk · May 26, 2017

1.00 star(s) Rating: 1.00/5 3 Votes

Title: Mortal Engines

Genre: All

Director: Christian Rivers

Cast: Robert Sheehan, Hera Hilmar, Ronan Raftery, Stephen Lang, Leila George, Jihae, Hugo Weaving, Colin Salmon, Sophie Cox, Caren Pistorius, Aaron Jackson, Mark Hadlow, Menik Gooneratne, Joel Tobeck, Stephen Ure, Kee Chan, Patrick Malahide, Regé-Jean Page, Frankie Adams, Mark Mitchinson

Release: 2018-12-12

Plot: Set in a world many thousands of years in the future. Earth’s cities now roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive Traction Cities, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the Outlands who will change the course of his life forever.

spronk · May 26, 2017

For anyone curious what Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings, Hobbit) is working on - Mortal Engines, due out Dec 2018. He posted a teaser concept art pic today

The movie is based on a book series, 4 books total, about a post apocalyptic world ~2500 years in the future. The background:

reddit said:
Two millennia ago the Ancients (humans in the 22nd century) destroyed themselves in the Sixty Minute War. The weapons used completely fucked up Earth and caused natural disasters and dried up oceans and left it completely unrecognizable. A lot of technological knowledge was lost after the Sixty Minute War so all modern technology is a sort of Victorian-Era Steampunk. Working Ancient tech, which is much more advanced, is incredibly rare and highly sought after though.

Humans built cities on giant traction wheels and built them up on tiers like a wedding cake. These cities then drove around chasing and stripping smaller roaming towns of resources and enslaving the smaller populations. This has been happening for hundreds of years and food has grown scarce. The first book is set around London.

Sounds pretty cool, like a variant of Horizon Zero Dawn or Fallout. Chick above looks exactly like Aloy.

Stephen Lang (Avatar, Into the Badlands) and Hugo Weaving (Matrix) are already confirmed in it.

spronk · May 26, 2017

I'd also recommend The Broken Empire and Red Queen books by Mark Lawrence, also a similar theme although rooted much more in fantasy than post apoc.

While I thought the hobbit series was absolute shit, taking a simple idea and stretching it out to 3 (was it more?) movies, this may seem more in Peter Jacksons wheelhouse - taking a 4 book, complicated series and making it a more manageable set of movies. I have no idea if its planned as a single stand alone, a trilogy, etc.

Valderen · May 26, 2017

So 12 movies?

ohkcrlho · May 26, 2017

spronk said:
For anyone curious what Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings, Hobbit) is working on - Mortal Engines, due out Dec 2018. He posted a teaser concept art pic today

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The movie is based on a book series, 4 books total, about a post apocalyptic world ~2500 years in the future. The background:

Sounds pretty cool, like a variant of Horizon Zero Dawn or Fallout. Chick above looks exactly like Aloy.

Stephen Lang (Avatar, Into the Badlands) and Hugo Weaving (Matrix) are already confirmed in it.

Horizon Zero Dawn....what a great game.

Im really interested about this movie btw

Lanx · May 26, 2017

Sounds like a Weibo with a fetish for Howl's moving castle/Laputa.

Arbitrary · Aug 16, 2017

Started book one, pretty happy with it so far.

Chris · Aug 28, 2017

Can't remember much about this, but I do remmeber enjoying reading it. I'm sure they will change the ending of book 1, like they did with Golden Compass.

spronk · Dec 18, 2017

Malkav · Dec 18, 2017

Looks good to me.
At least they seem to do a good job with the whole "Municipal Darwinism" aspect of the book.

Conefed · Jan 8, 2018

Looks exactly like a first movie of a trilogy with the last two canceled.

Arbitrary · Jan 9, 2018

Arbitrary said:
Started book one, pretty happy with it so far.

I see I never updated this. Book one was pretty good, the world was interesting, characters were decent, etc. The ending did an odd thing where

fucking damn near everyone dies including many main characters that a lot of time had been put into developing

but other than that it was a solid "C+". I don't plan on going any further in the series though. It wasn't something that I finished and immediately wanted more of. I can't see going to the theater for this though.

Hateyou · Jan 9, 2018

I can't watch anything from Peter Jackson unless it gets a lot of glowing reviews. The Hobbit movies were just fucking terrible. I was a fan of his early works like LotR and Dead Alive, but he went way too far in the wrong direction for me.

Brahma · Jan 17, 2018

Hateyou said:
I can't watch anything from Peter Jackson unless it gets a lot of glowing reviews. The Hobbit movies were just fucking terrible. I was a fan of his early works like LotR and Dead Alive, but he went way too far in the wrong direction for me.

Ya I hear you. The BS with trying to stretch out The Hobbit...

He does have more good/great than bad, so I will see. Only director I will never see again is M Night Shyamalan.

Lanx · Jan 17, 2018

Brahma said:
Only director I will never see again is M Night Shyamalan.

The ending of Split should have changed your opinion

ZyyzYzzy · Jan 17, 2018

Lanx said:
The ending of Split should have changed your opinion

Finally saw Split. Only decent thing from him. He did ruin his own reputation. Everything since the Sixth Sense has been pure shit

Lanx · Jan 17, 2018

ZyyzYzzy said:
Finally saw Split. Only decent thing from him. He did ruin his own reputation. Everything since the Sixth Sense has been pure shit

split is amazing in that the whole movie, your like "wtf is this shit, change your body through chemistry bullshit, arh", then you see the ending and you're like fuck it, i'm in cuz

there's gonna be another movie

Phazael · Jan 17, 2018

Brahma said:
Ya I hear you. The BS with trying to stretch out The Hobbit...

He does have more good/great than bad, so I will see. Only director I will never see again is M Night Shyamalan.

Unbreakable, Signs, and Sixth Sense were what I consider good. Split gets a lot of good word of mouth, but as it has been described to me by others you sit through two hours of shit for 5 minutes of awesome. Fight Club managed to do the big twist that changes the entire perspective without everything before the end credits sucking dick, so I never gave it another look. Lady in the Water pretty much tanked me for ever seeing anything by Shamalamadingdong ever again.

Peter Jackson I get the Hobbit hate, since he milked the fuck out of those, but I bet New Line had as much to do with that as he did (if not more, by inserting Legolas and Femolass into it). I did like his King Kong remake, though it had some needless gore in it.

Brando · Jan 18, 2018

Wait, what? Are you shitting on Fight Club right now or am I misunderstanding?

Campbell1oo4 · Jan 18, 2018

Fight Club is cool when you're 14.

Then you realize Tyler Durden is either full of shit, or is going to be responsible for a revolution that results in millions of deaths through famine.

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