“Playing before some showings of Star Wars: The Last Jedi this weekend was a trailer for a whole new science-fiction film franchise. Now, the trailer for the Peter Jackson-produced Mortal Engines is available to watch online.
“Unlike Star Wars, Mortal Engines does not take place in a galaxy far far away. Instead, it’s all-too-bound to Earth, or the dying steampunk-inflected wasteland that remains of it anyway.
“Based on the novels by Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines portrays a dystopian world where human survivors band together in small towns-on-wheels to traverse the wasteland and make the most of its limited resources.
“But one wheeled monstrosity towers above all, and actually feeds on the others for its own sustenance.”
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