About this episode

The episode discusses the film 'Mortal Engines' and its impact on Peter Jackson's career and WETA's future.

Municipalities, start your engines!! Or… get ready to eat each other? We’re finishing off our Rings series today with the final (?) major live action narrative production from Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and the whole WETA gang. It may not be Tolkien-related, but hey, Hugo Weaving wields a blade in it! It’s tragic that the film didn’t start a new era for Jackson, and we’re sorting through its disastrous box office fallout this week along with some predictions for what the future has in store for WETA.

People in this episode

Hosts: Dom Nero, Adam Volerich

Topics covered

• film analysis
• box office
• Peter Jackson
• WETA
• Mortal Engines
• Rings series

Keywords

• Mortal Engines
• Peter Jackson
• WETA
• box office failure
• Hugo Weaving
• film analysis

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WETA

Books & works: Mortal Engines

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