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Mortal Engines is a 2018 post-apocalyptic steampunk film directed by Christian Rivers from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson, based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Philip Reeve. It stars Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving, Jihae, Ronan Raftery, Leila George, Patrick Malahide, and Stephen Lang.
- $83.7 million
- Tom Holkenborg
- $100–150 million
Dec 14, 2018 · Directed by Christian Rivers, a longtime art director for Jackson, the overall look asks the question, “are you sick of Steampunk yet,” and for me, yeah. Never mind that the whole concept of the movie is like someone decided to take Terry Gilliam ’s “The Crimson Permanent Assurance” way more seriously than it was ever intended.
Jun 5, 2018 · Exclusive: Christian Rivers and Peter Jackson's Mortal Engines movie, based on Philip Reeve's 2001 novel, is not steampunk; it's post-dystopian.
Summaries. In a post-apocalyptic world where cities ride on wheels and consume each other to survive, two people meet in London and try to stop a conspiracy. A mysterious young woman, Hester Shaw, emerges as the only one who can stop a giant, predator city on wheels devouring everything in its path. Feral, and fiercely driven by the memory of ...
Dec 5, 2018 · The film is basically a steampunk Star Wars, with a bit of low-octane Gilliam and Gaiman on the side. By the end, in fact, the resemblances to George Lucas’s great creation become so ...
Dec 14, 2018 · Director Christian Rivers' Mortal Engines attempts just that by constructing its world on top of the civilization we already know. The story takes place across a reshaped, post-apocalyptic Europe and Asia, where major cities mere made mobile a thousand years after a great cataclysm.
Dec 13, 2018 · By Rafael Motamayor. Updated: Mar 11, 2021 7:02 pm. Posted: Dec 13, 2018 11:55 am. Mortal Engines is the big-budget live-action steampunk movie fans of that subgenre have always wanted,...
