🔴Mortal Engines Cast & Character Guide🔴
0Mortal Engines Cast & Character Guide
Mortal Engines, while flopping in theaters when it was released in 2018, is nonetheless an enjoyable action sci-fi-fantasy romp thanks to its great cast of characters. Based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Philip Reeve, the 2018 movie adaptation of Mortal Engines was directed by Christian Rivers after Peter Jackson purchased the rights to the book. Unfortunately, Mortal Engines bombed at the box office, which is a shame as the interesting story and world had promise.
Mortal Engines takes place in a post-apocalyptic steampunk world where giant, moving cities known as "Traction Cities" roam the land and consume smaller traction cities and settlements as predators. London is the biggest predator of them all, but a group of underground rebels known as the Anti-Traction League plot to overthrow the Traction City and its de facto leader, Thaddeus Valentine. What follows is an adventure through a unique world populated with colorful, memorable characters.
Actor: Icelandic actor Hera Hilmar was born in Reykjavík, Iceland in 1988 and she broke out in 2007 for her role in The Quiet Storm. After becoming a notable young star in her native Iceland, being nominated for and winning several Edda awards, Hilmar made the jump to an English language, American audience with a starring role in The Ottoman Lieutenant. Her role in Mortal Engines was her breakout role with an American audience, and she's landed roles in the TV series The Romanoffs,See, and DaVinci's Demons.
Character: Hester Shaw is a mysterious young woman with a scarred face on a mission to assassinate Thaddeus Valentine. It was Shaw who killed her mother in order to steal a precious artifact her mother had discovered. After escaping Valentine - but not before he gravely disfigured her face - she was taken in and raised by Shrike, a bounty hunter. In Mortal Engines, she's almost semi-feral thanks to her upbringing, and she wants nothing more than revenge for what Valentine did to her.