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Behind the scenes on MORTAL ENGINES - the new movie from Peter Jackson and his team. Director Christian Rivers takes on the the new sci-fi epic.

Christian Rivers is a New Zealand storyboard artist, visual effects supervisor, special effects technician and director. He first met Peter Jackson as a 17-year-old, and storyboarded all of Jackson's films since Braindead. He made his directing debut in the film adaptation of Mortal Engines, and planning a remake of The Dam Busters, both produced by Peter Jackson.

Christian previously directed two shorts including Feeder & Minutes Past Midnight

Mortal Engines is the first of four novels in Philip Reeve's quartet of the same name. The book and movie focuses on a futuristic, steampunk version of London, now a giant machine striving to survive on a world running out of resources.

Thousands of years after civilization was destroyed by a cataclysmic event, humankind has adapted and a new way of living has evolved. Gigantic moving cities now roam the Earth, ruthlessly preying upon smaller traction towns. Tom Natsworthy (Robert Sheehan)—who hails from a Lower Tier of the great traction city of London—finds himself fighting for his own survival after he encounters the dangerous fugitive Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar).
2 opposites, whose paths should never have crossed, forge an unlikely alliance that is destined to change the course of the future.