A shot of Hester Shaw and her new boyfriend.
Mortal Engines may be not been many things but visually it was a feast of colour and big hulking mechanical monsters!
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One perfect shot:
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
A shot of Hester Shaw and her new boyfriend.
Mortal Engines may be not been many things but visually it was a feast of colour and big hulking mechanical monsters!
Meet Tom Natsworthy, Apprentice Historian of London & Poster Boy
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
There's a great shot of the Jenny Hanniver at the end..
Tom, Hester, Fang and Valentine images released from Mortal Engines
Sunday, June 3, 2018
Pictures of the key characters from Mortal Engines have been revealed !
That's Anna Fang above. Her character flies an airship which she uses for her missions as a spy for the Anti Traction League.
Below is a shot of Hester Shaw, wearing the classic red scarf associated with the book version of the character.
Here we have a shot of traction city London
This is Thaddues Valentine, one of the key antagonists of the novel. Valentine is played by Hugo Weaving. He has a strong associated with Peter Jackson productions, such as Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit.
Here we have Leifur Sigurdarson playing Nils Lindstrom, an aviator. To his right is Robert Sheehan as Tom Natsworthy and to his left, Hera Hilmar playing Hester Shaw
To give you a sense of scale, here's Hester and Tom in the tracks of what we presume is London.
If you weren't in the know, Mortal Engines is the first novel in a series of stories about these giant mechanized cities. Check it out on Book Depository, or Amazon.
What age are Tom and Hester in Mortal Engines?
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
⚙ The Ages of Tom and Hester Through the Quartet
In the original Mortal Engines book, we first meet the young Tom Natsworthy when he is 15 years of age.
He was made an orphan in the events of The Great Tilt, where a tier of London broke and crushed his parents. Tom could be described as a scrawny, thin boy but handsome nonetheless.
Hester Shaw is about the same age as Tom.
In the flashback parts of the novel, where Thaddeus Valentine is revealed to have murdered her parents, she is seven years old.
!! SPOILER WARNING: The following timeline contains major plot points for the entire Mortal Engines quartet !!
Mortal Engines (Age: ~15)
Tom and Hester are both around 15 years old when the story begins. Other teenage characters, such as Bevis Pod and Katherine Valentine, appear in the novel, but their exact ages are not specified.
Predator's Gold (Age: ~17)
The sequel begins two years after the events of the first book, making Tom and Hester approximately 17 years old as they navigate the icy dangers of the north.
Infernal Devices (Age: ~33)
The story jumps forward 16 years. Tom and Hester are now married and are about 33 years old. They have a daughter, Wren, who is a teenager of roughly the same age her parents were when their adventures began.
A Darkling Plain (Age: ~34)
By the time Tom and Hester both die at the end of the final novel, A Darkling Plain, they are close to, if not already, 34 years old, bringing their epic journey to a poignant close.
How old are Hester and Tom in the Mortal Engines movie?
The characters were aged-up for the film adaptation. The actors Hera Hilmar (Hester) and Robert Sheehan (Tom) were both born in 1988, making them around 29 years old during the film's production.
This places the on-screen versions of the characters in their mid-to-late twenties, rather than the mid-teens of the novel.
Oh, the feels in this Tom and Hester artwork
Sunday, July 2, 2017
This is an amazing piece of Mortal Engines fan art work by Katya Bozukova who can be found at Over_the_cauldron_art.
It captures emotions you can ascribe to Tom and Hester so easily in terms of their relationship.
It captures emotions you can ascribe to Tom and Hester so easily in terms of their relationship.
Peter Yea's concept art of 'The Great Hunting Ground'
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Artist Peter Yea has drawn some fantastic Mortal Engines imagery.
He describes is endeavors simply as "Piece of work in comic book style depicting scene from Mortal Engines (2001) by Phillip Reeve. Work completed for Final Year Project at Teesside University."
Yea has put in some great effort.
Here's his initial (hand drawn?) sketch of The Hunting Grounds - where readers of Mortal Engines will know, the Traction Cities like London roam, looking for prey.
And that was then given the digital conversion treatment:
Peter is clearly a bit of a Mortal Engines fan as he has done a fair bit of work.
Here's his version of the moment Shrike and Tom Natsworthy mortally faced off:
And here's an awesome version of the Medusa Weapon being fired. You can almost imagine Yea's drawings being turned into a cartoon series!
Here's also a pencil sketch of London:
Who is playing Tom Natsworthy in Mortal Engines?
Friday, February 3, 2017
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| Robbie Sheehan |
Christian Rivers has found his Tom Natsworthy
It is understood that Sheehan is playing Tom Natsworthy in the movie while Raferty has a smaller role, possibly Bevis but that is wholly speculation on our part.
No word on who is playing Hester Shaw or Valentine etc.
Sheehan is arguably is best known for television roles such as Nathan Young in the very popular British show Misfits and as Darren in Love/Hate, as well as the 2009 film Cherrybomb alongside Rupert Grint. He currently as a strong showing in Bad Samaritan.
His casting in Mortal Engines is one step towards being a massively popular actor, especially if Mortal Engines is a success and spawns sequels based on the four novels that feature Tom and Hester.
Wing Nut Films to produce Mortal Engines
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Peter Jackson's Wing Nut Films to product Mortal Engines
Kiwi film making legend Peter Jackson has announced that his latest film project is Mortal Engines. If you know that name that’s because it is an adaptation of Philip Reeve's sci-fi/fantasy novel Mortal Engines.
Jackson and his usual gang of Oscar winning writing partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens have taken up the pen for scripting.
Jackson is taking a breaking from directing after the tortuous 3 film run that was The Hobbit so his protege Christian Rivers in the directing chair. Rivers was in line to direct a remake of the Dambusters but that project has been put on the go slow.
Jackson said of his project:
“Our involvement in Mortal Engines actually pre-dates Dambusters (which is still happening) - Christian actually worked on Mortal Engines previs way back in 2009. It’s very exciting to finally get it underway!”
The book series was first optioned to be made into movies by Jackson way back in 2001 and he will be looking to turn it into a massive film franchise.
So what is the Mortal Engines series of novels about?
Mortal Engines is set far off into the future. A post-apocalyptic Earth now features giant robotic or mechanical cities that roam the scorched Earth on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle forever diminishing resources. It's nothing like Star Wars its golden robots.
On one of these massive Traction Cities called London, the young Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious girl from the Outlands and the story pans out from there.
The books are often referred to the ‘Predator Cities’ series and feature a steampunk world where merciless barons and mayors roam what is known as the Hunting Ground, preying on smaller towns and converting their raw materials into fuel for their own city-machines. This process is called Municipal Darwinism.
It will be a couple of years before you get to see Mortal Engines on the silver screen and given no release date has been publicly announced, you’ve got plenty of time to read the books.
Tom Natsworthy quotes from Mortal Engines
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Tom Natsworthy quotes from the Mortal Engines film
Tom Natsworthy is the main character, a fifteen-year-old orphan of the Mortal Engines book and film series. He is a third class apprentice in the Guild of Historians, which frankly means he's supposed to live a boring life.He witnesses an attempted assassination of Thaddeus Valentine by Hester Shaw which leads to his being cast off from the city of London, where he meets forges a relationship with Hester, at which point his adventure really begins.
Writer Philip Reeve says the inspiration for Tom's name came from a map "I sort of collect interesting sounding words and save them up until I need a name for a character. ‘Natsworthy’ is a place on Dartmoor, just up the road from where I live".
In the Christian Rivers directed film, Tom Natsworthy is played by Rob Sheehan and his opposite Hester Shaw is played by Hera Hilmar.
Quotes:
"Hey, watch out!" Tom Natsworthy's warning shout to Valentine as Hester's about to stab him.
"This weapon could wipe out the largest city in the blink of an eye!"
"Tom Natsworthy: See, I said you'd come back for me.
Hester Shaw: Shut up and run."
"Hey, watch out!" Tom Natsworthy's warning shout to Valentine as Hester's about to stab him.
"This weapon could wipe out the largest city in the blink of an eye!"
"Tom Natsworthy: See, I said you'd come back for me.
Hester Shaw: Shut up and run."
"Tom Natsworthy: What are they hunting?
Hester Shaw: Us"
Hester Shaw: Us"
