'MORTAL ENGINES'
APOCALYPSE COMES ON WHEELS!
Are you excited, spylings? The cities on wheels from
MORTAL ENGINES are tumbling into your cinemas beginning of December finally bringing
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| Mortal Engines arrive this December |
Philip Reeve's famous YA saga onto the big screens.
Christian Rivers, who worked as storyboard artist on LOTR, Hobbit and all other
Peter Jackson's movies, is directing the film produced by Jackson himself. The $100 million movie, set in a post apocalyptic world ravaged by the surviving cities which now roam around on giant wheels eating each other for fuel, covers the first book of Reeve's saga which has four novels (translated by your spy for the readers in his country).
IN MORTAL ENGINES
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| Peter Jackson has a cameo in the movie! |
Tom is a twenty something Londoner who has only ever lived inside his
travelling hometown, and his feet have never touched grass, mud or
land. His first taste of the outside comes quite abruptly: Tom gets in
the way of the masked Hester's attempt to kill Thaddeus Valentine, a
powerful man she blames for her mother’s murder, and both Hester and Tom
end up thrown out of the moving "traction" city, to fend for
themselves. Trying to stop the predator city who wants to devour
everything in front of itself, Hester joins forces with Tom Natsworthy
and Anna Fang, a dangerous outlaw aviator with a bounty on her head.
THE HEROES AND THE AVIATORS
The steampunk world has a rather rich gallery of characters lead by
Robert Sheehan as Tom Natsworthy, a low-class apprentice historian of London
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| Robert Sheehan is lowly historian apprentice Tom Natsworthy! |
thrown out of the city and forced to ally himself with Hester and the resistance.
Hera Hilmar is Hester Shaw, a disfigured, fugitive assassin with a personal vendetta against Thaddeus played by
Hugo Weaving. He is the
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| Hera Hilmar's Hester Shaw is a lot less disfigured in the movie than in the books |
Head of the Guild of Historians and the father of Katherine Valentine (
Leila George) who is a girl from London's elite circles.
Jihae is Anna Fang, a pilot and leader of the Anti-Traction League, a resistance group banding against the
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| Hugo Weaving is conniving head historian Thaddeus Valentine |
moving cities devouring Earth's resources.
Ronan Raftery is Bevis Pod, an apprentice engineer whom Katherine befriends.
Patrick Malahide is Magnus Crome, the very evil Mayor of London.
Stephen Lang is Shrike, the
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| Jihae is rebel aviator Anna Fang who has her own flying ship! |
last of an undead battalion of soldiers known as Stalkers, who were war casualties reanimated with machine parts. He raised Hester and now works for Crome.
Mirab, Saul’s daughters, Ethan Kai as Jonathan, Saul’s son and heir apparent. Oded Fehr is Abner, Saul’s advisor, Louis Ferreira is Jesse, David’s father, Davood Ghadami is Eliab, David’s eldest brother and
decorated warrior in King Saul’s army, and Ashraf Barhom is Doeg, a mysterious
Edomite, and Alexander Uloom who plays King Achish.
Mirab, Saul’s daughters, Ethan Kai as Jonathan, Saul’s son and heir apparent. Oded Fehr is Abner, Saul’s advisor, Louis Ferreira is Jesse, David’s father, Davood Ghadami is Eliab, David’s eldest brother and
decorated warrior in King Saul’s army, and Ashraf Barhom is Doeg, a mysterious
Edomite, and Alexander Uloom who plays King Achish.
