If you've spied that the Mortal Engines marketing has tracked up a notch, you'd be right and you may have seen this shot of Palt's Yard Dairy which supplies the city of London with cheese derived from algae.
Check out the picture of the wanted picture of Anna Fang on the video screen on the top right. Anna Fang is a spy and leader in the Anti Traction League and if you've read Night Flights or the original novel, you'll know she's no friend of London.
So having a wanted video of Anna Fang all makes sense.
What makes little sense is that the shot of Anna appears to be from within the actual movie, not at a time in the past.
See, here's a movie shot of Anna as played by Jihae:
It would seem a shot similar to this has been used by the production team for the Palt's Dairy warning sign - however, it's of Anna in 'movie real time' - presumably, the shot was supposed to be a warning for people prior to the events of the movie. Thus it's kind of an anachronism.
I could be wrong, Anna could stand around all day on London for pictures wearing the same coat with the collar in the same position against her neck, the same undergarment, and same glasses every time she visits London...
Or of course it could be a real time warning but where's the fun in that... we also know Anna often wears a red coat...
Anna Fang's 'in movie' wanted poster is from ... the movie
Jimmy Jangles
Sci-Fi Writer & Mortal Engines Fan • About | @JimmyJanglesJimmy Jangles writes about science fiction, films, and worldbuilding. He’s been chronicling Philip Reeve’s Traction Era and the 2018 film adaptation since 2016 — from Municipal Darwinism to MEDUSA, Hester Shaw to Shrike. Also runs The Astromech for sci-fi at large.
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