Peter Jackson's "Mortal Engines" novel adaptation release date setNovember 25, 2016 - 10:45 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Universal Studios has set a Christmas 2018 release date for Peter Jackson's next movie "Mortal Engines", an adaptation of Philip Reeve's award-winning novel of the same name. The studio has announced that the sci-fi movie will be released in theaters across the U.S. on December 14, 2018, AceShowbiz reports. Jackson is producing the movie along with Fran Walsh, his longtime collaborator behind "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" trilogy. He won't sit behind the lens, but is serving as a co-writer along with Philippa Boyens. Jackson gives the helming duty to Christian Rivers, who will make his feature directorial debut with the fantasy flick. "Mortal Engines" will be the first film of a planned movie series adapted from Reeve's novels, which also include "Predator's Gold", "Infernal Devices" and "A Darkling Plain". Since the first novel was published in 2001 by Scholastic, it has won several prestigious awards, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Set in a future world, "Mortal Engines" chronicles Earth's cities which now roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive Traction Cities, a teen named Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from a territory known as the Outlands, who will change the course of his life forever. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | U.S. warns Georgia not to side with Moscow against the west Georgia has been warned by the U.S. not to become an adversary of the west by falling back in line with Moscow. Power of One Dram sums up two-year program with Teach for Armenia Idram Junior also joined the companies during the visit, bringing with it a fascinating intellectual game for children Moscow slams EU mission in Armenia for “provocative activity” The EU mission is doing more and more against Armenia’s neighbors Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran, Mikhail Galuzin said. Yerevan Mayor to travel to Paris on May 15-19 The official delegation headed by Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan will travel to Paris from May 15 to 19. |