Draft:Mortal Engines (film)

Mortal Engines is an upcoming science fiction action adventure film directed by Christian Rivers and written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson, based on the novel of the same name by Philip Reeve. An American-New Zealand co-production, the film is set in a post-apocalyptic steampunk world where entire cities have been mounted on wheels and motorised, and prey on one another. It stars Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving, Hera Hilmar, Jihae, Ronan Raftery, Leila George, Patrick Malahide, and Stephen Lang.

The film is scheduled to be released in theaters on December 14, 2018. The film will have a Real D 3D, IMAX and IMAX 3D release.

Millennia after much of the world was destroyed in a cataclysmic event, civilization has adapted a new way of living. Gigantic moving cities now roam the Earth, chasing and devouring smaller traction towns for resources. Tom Natsworthy (Robert Sheehan), a low-class citizen of the moving city of London, finds himself fighting for survival after he encounters the fugitive Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar). Opposites stuck together, they must forge an unlikely alliance that could change the future.

Additionally, Colin Salmon and Regé-Jean Page portray Chudleigh Pomeroy and Captain Khora.Mark Hadlow portrays Orme Wreyland; Sophie Cox portrays Clytie Potts; Aaron Jackson portrays Gench; Stephen Ure portrays Pewsey; Kee Chan portrays Governor Kwan; and Mark Mitchinson portrays Vambrace.