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5 Jun 2018 17:00

The phrase "it's big in Europe" might draw some epic eye rolls from those in the States, but in the case of Mortal Engines, it's true. Author Philip Reeve released the first of a quartet of young-adult sci-fi novels in 2001 and sparked a massive hit -- so massive, that The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson wanted to make it his next film adaptation in 2008. As he explained to reporters on the Mortal Engines set in New Zealand last year, that plan fell apart at the time when development on...
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