""Mortal Engines" Adaptation by Peter Jackson" Topic
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Tango01 | 25 Oct 2016 11:37 a.m. PST |
"Good news and bad news, people, Peter Jackson is returning to movie making with his Hobbit and Lord of the Rings team Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, with whom he will produce the big screen adaptation of Philip Reeve's epic novels MORTAL ENGINES, bad news – they're writing the script as well and they might make it as deadly boring as them Hobbitses were! Peter's visual effects expert Christian Rivers will direct! MORTAL ENGINES is 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"
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Gasmasked Mook | 25 Oct 2016 11:56 a.m. PST |
do you have a link? i know this was rumoured for the longest time but if there is anything current then that changes things a lot |
Parzival | 25 Oct 2016 12:04 p.m. PST |
Great series of novels, both well written and funny, with memorable characters and engaging plots, and the most bizarrely imaginative post-apocalyptic future world ever created, like Mad Max on steroids as designed by Terry Gilliam. While Walsh & Boyens definitely need to be reigned in (especially on their typically poor romantic subplot elements), their quirky senses may be okay for this project. Visual spectacle is what this project demands, but one hopes Rivers & Co. respect the subtler elements of Reeve's characters and their interaction. For all the silliness of setting, these novels have a depth and heart that must not be lost if the films are to be a success. Oh, and on a side note, the cities aren't on wheels, they're on treads so big they'd make an Ogre Mk III whimper and scurry off in the other direction. |
Mugwump | 25 Oct 2016 12:08 p.m. PST |
Zodonga, from the film: John Carter? |
Coelacanth1938 | 25 Oct 2016 1:34 p.m. PST |
After the botched Hobbit trilogy, I don't really want to see anything more coming from Peter Jackson. |
boy wundyr x | 25 Oct 2016 1:46 p.m. PST |
So three 3-hour movies per book? Unless they're big books, then all bets are off. |
blacksoilbill | 25 Oct 2016 4:55 p.m. PST |
Feeling conflicted on this. Love the books: great setting, but a real heart too. I could see the movies nailing the former, but not necessarily the latter. |
piper909 | 25 Oct 2016 10:06 p.m. PST |
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tnjrp | 26 Oct 2016 1:13 a.m. PST |
Gasmasked Mook 25 Oct 2016 11:56 a.m. PST:
i know this was rumoured for the longest time The quote is from 2010. But there is a more recent version of the rumour going around to, apparently starting from link |
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