Peter Jackson's Mortal Engines Gets a Full-Length Trailer & Poster

Mortal Engines

Peter Jackson is back with another epic visual sense in the unexampled trailer forMortal Engines . The pic was primitively meant to serve as Jackson ’s third fully grown - budget risky venture film after hisLord of the Ringstrilogy andKing Kongremake , but was put on the back - burner after he agreed to overseeThe Hobbitin 2010 . Although he still cowrote and produced the celluloid , Jackson ended up handing the job of directingMortal Enginesover to Christian Rivers : a VFX supervisor and storyboard artist who ’s been work out with Jackson since the posterior - end of his small - budget " splatter stage " in the former 1990s .

Mortal Enginesis free-base on Philip Reeve ’s book series and choose place in a next world where people now live in mobile cities that combat one another for control of the planet ’s remaining resources . The tarradiddle follows Tom Natsworthy ( Robert Sheehan ) , a lower - class Londoner whose life is forever change after he track route with a mysterious fugitive and revolutionary named Hester Shaw ( Hera Hilmar ) . Rounding out the film ’s roll are such names asLord of the RingsandHobbitveteran Hugo Weaving , along withAvatar ’s Stephen Lang , Krypton ’s Colin Salmon , and South Korean pop euphony wiz Jihae .

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TheMortal Enginesteaser trailerreleased last yr provide a brief coup d’oeil of Hester , as well as a taste of the motion-picture show ’s dystopian aesthetic and massive scale leaf . By comparison , Universal ’s full - length poke delves further into the conform story that Jackson spell with his trusted collaborators Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens . Those who have register Reeve ’s books ( which includeMortal Engines , Predator ’s Gold , Infernal Devices , andA Darkling Plain ) may already be starting to notice that there are some majordifferences between the novel and the heavy sieve interpretation ofMortal Engines , based on the 2d trailer alone . Take a spirit in the distance above , then check out the plastic film ’s new poster below .

This full - length trailer quickly brings newcomers up to speed on the backstory forMortal Engines(see the reference to the " Sixty Minute War " that led to the flick ’s dystopian setting ) , before diving header - first into the game of the actual movie . Based on the house trailer , Weaving ’s fictional character Thaddeus Valentine will serve as the primary menace in the big sieve version ofMortal Engines , as will the now - peregrine city of London itself . Beyond that , the trailer reveals how Tom and Hester end up having to work together after Tom learns a little too much about Valentine ’s history and is forced to result London for the first time in his life sentence .

Unsurprisingly , given Rivers ' backcloth in optic effects and storyboarding , the world blueprint in theMortal Enginestrailer is top notch and paint a picture that , if nothing else , this will be a greatlookingpost - revelatory adventure . It remains to be see if the actual story here is evenly inventive or end up hitting one too many familiar beats , when it comes to this eccentric of champion ’s journey narrative . Similarly , withMortal Enginesknowingly drawing inspiration frompopular franchises likeStar Wars , Harry Potter , andMad Max , there ’s a risk that the whole matter will come off as derivative , its eye candy away . Here ’s to hope thatMortal Enginesdelivers the goods on that front too , then .