Matthew Schuchman David Crow Oct 17, 2018
The stars of Mortal Engines discuss bringing their characters to life in the new steampunk movie from Peter Jackson.
With any sort of cinematic adaptation, there must be a give and a take with casting, which is almost inevitably always followed by some sort of grumbling from fans of the novel. Peter Jackson faced it on Lord of the Rings when he made Frodo and Sam roughly the same age (Frodo is hardly so boyish in J.R.R. Tolkien’s prose), and his latest production, Mortal Engines, continued the creative tradition by aging up the characters from the Philip Reeve book in order for the franchise to organically expand.
We caught up with the leads of Mortal Engines at New York Comic Con this month to discuss those changes, as well as how one inhabits a world in which London has become a glorified rock atop...
The stars of Mortal Engines discuss bringing their characters to life in the new steampunk movie from Peter Jackson.
With any sort of cinematic adaptation, there must be a give and a take with casting, which is almost inevitably always followed by some sort of grumbling from fans of the novel. Peter Jackson faced it on Lord of the Rings when he made Frodo and Sam roughly the same age (Frodo is hardly so boyish in J.R.R. Tolkien’s prose), and his latest production, Mortal Engines, continued the creative tradition by aging up the characters from the Philip Reeve book in order for the franchise to organically expand.
We caught up with the leads of Mortal Engines at New York Comic Con this month to discuss those changes, as well as how one inhabits a world in which London has become a glorified rock atop...
- 10/17/2018
- Den of Geek
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