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Mortal Engines
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Mortal Engines is a 2018 English-language film directed by Christian Rivers. The cast includes Stephen Lang, Hugo Weaving, Robert Sheehan, and Hera Hilmar. Peter Jackson served as producer and co-wrote the screenplay with Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh. Junkie XL composed the music, while Dan Hennah was the production designer. The film is classified as a speculative fiction, adventure, and steampunk movie, originating from New Zealand and the United States. It was produced by Bad Robot Productions, Paramount Pictures, Skydance Media, and Cruise/Wagner Productions, among others.
The film has a runtime of 128 minutes and was distributed by Universal Pictures. Its narrative is set in Asia. The production had a budget of 100,000,000 and earned a box office total of 83,672,673. It received a PG-13 rating. Audience and critic scores include an IMDb rating of 6.1, a Metascore of 44, and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 25%. The film has received 3 wins and 2 nominations.
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Film · TMDB
6.2Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the wastelands who will change the course of his life forever.
Cast
- Hera Hilmar as Hester Shaw
- Robert Sheehan as Tom Natsworthy
- Hugo Weaving as Thaddeus Valentine
- Jihae as Anna Fang
- Ronan Raftery as Bevis Pod
- Leila George as Katherine Valentine
Themes
- based on novel or book
- dystopia
- post-apocalyptic future
- revenge
- wasteland
- steampunk
- futuristic vehicle
- based on young adult novel
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Ratings
IMDb
6.1/10
151,648 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
25%
Metacritic
44/100
- Year
- 2018
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Animation
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 3 wins & 2 nominations total
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Directed by
- Christian Rivers
- Screenplay by
- Fran Walsh Philippa Boyens Peter Jackson
- Based on
- Mortal Engines , by Philip Reeve
- Produced by
- Zane Weiner Amanda Walker Deborah Forte Fran Walsh Peter Jackson
- Starring
- Hera Hilmar Robert Sheehan Hugo Weaving Jihae Ronan Raftery Leila George Patrick Malahide Stephen Lang
- Cinematography
- Simon Raby
- Edited by
- Jonno Woodford-Robinson
- Music by
- Tom Holkenborg
- Production companies
- Universal Pictures MRC Scholastic Entertainment Silvertongue Films Perfect World Pictures WingNut Films
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release dates
- November 27, 2018 ( 2018-11-27 ) ( London premiere) December 6, 2018 ( 2018-12-06 ) (New Zealand) December 14, 2018 ( 2018-12-14 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 128 minutes
- Countries
- New Zealand United States China
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $100–150 million
- Box office
- $83.7 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Mortal Engines | Universal Pictures At Home
Hundreds of years after our civilization was destroyed, a new world has emerged. A mysterious young woman named Hester Shaw leads a band of outcasts in the fight to stop London—now a giant predator city on wheels—from devouring everything in its path. © 2017 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- New Zealand
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- Mortal Engines
- Director
- Christian Rivers
- Screenwriter
- Fran Walsh
- Cast member
- Robert Sheehan
- Composer
- Junkie XL
- Producer
- Peter Jackson
- Production company
- MRC
- Narrative location
- Asia
- Filming location
- New Zealand
- Duration
- 128
- FilmAffinity ID
- 943524
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.uphe.com/movies/mortal-engines
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- publication date
- 2018-12-27
- title
- Mortal Engines
- capital cost
- 100000000
- production designer
- Dan Hennah
- box office
- 83672673
- social media followers
- 6041
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 25%
- costume designer
- Kate Hawley
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Encyclopedic overview
Mortal Engines is a 2018 post-apocalyptic steampunk film, based on Philip Reeve's 2001 novel. Directed by Christian Rivers and written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson, it stars Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving, Jihae, Ronan Raftery, Leila George, Patrick Malahide, and Stephen Lang. An American–New Zealand co-production, the film is set in a post-apocalyptic world where entire cities have been mounted on wheels and motorised, and practice municipal Darwinism.
Jackson purchased the rights to the book in 2009, but the film languished for several years before being officially announced in 2016. Jackson picked Rivers, who won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for his work on Jackson's King Kong, to make his feature-length directorial debut with the project, and also brought on several members of his production teams from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. Filming took place from April to July 2017 in New Zealand.
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