Episode Sixteen - Mortal Engines (2018)
Failure to Franchise
English - March 16, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 98.4 MBFilm History TV & Film Film Reviews hollywood boxoffice f2fpod failure film filmcriticism franchise franchises moviefranchises moviereviews Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In 2001, author Philip Reeve published "Mortal Engines," the first in a series of YA books about a post-apocalyptic world where survivors now live in large, warring, mobile "traction cities." In 2009, acclaimed filmmaker Peter Jackson purchased the rights to the series, intrigued by the story's cinematic potential. In 2016, production on the film began, under the guidance of first-time director and Jackson protégé Christian Rivers. In 2018, the film was released, into a crowded and highly competitive holiday movie season. And by 2019, the film was almost completely forgotten.
But WE remembered...and now we're here to try to figure out what the hell went wrong.