{"id":103640,"date":"2018-06-29T10:52:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T09:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=103640"},"modified":"2018-06-29T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T09:52:07","slug":"mortal-engines-featurette-takes-you-inside-a-stunning-fantasy-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/mortal-engines-featurette-takes-you-inside-a-stunning-fantasy-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortal Engines featurette takes you inside a stunning fantasy world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new featurette has arrived for the Peter Jackson-penned fantasy epic <strong><em>Mortal Engines<\/em> <\/strong>and it&#8217;s pretty damn eye-catching.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t3ERDfF1Hhc\" width=\"616\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thousands of years after civilisation was destroyed by a cataclysmic event, humankind has adapted and a new way of living has evolved. \u00a0Gigantic moving cities now roam the\u00a0Earth, ruthlessly preying upon smaller traction towns. \u00a0Tom Natsworthy (Robert Sheehan)\u2014who hails from a Lower Tier of the great traction city of London\u2014finds himself fighting for his own survival after\u00a0he encounters the dangerous fugitive Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar). \u00a0Two opposites, whose paths should never have crossed, forge an unlikely\u00a0alliance\u00a0that\u00a0is destined to change the course of the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The film is the directorial debut of long-time Jackson collaborator Christian Rivers, and also stars Hugo Weaving, Jihae, Patrick Malahide,\u00a0Ronan Raftery, Leila George and Stephen Lang. Jackson wrote the screenplay with Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh, based on the book by Philip Reeve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mortal Engines is released on 14 December. Keep up with the latest genre news with the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kyzhyO6T84w\" width=\"616\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roving cities go to war in a new featurette for Peter Jackson&#8217;s Mortal Engines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":103641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[1226],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-29-at-10.47.13.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}