'Mortal Engines' from 'The Hobbit' director dated for December 2018
The next film from "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" director is set to release a month after the "Fantastic Beasts" sequel and a week before an animated Spider-Man film and what is likely to become "Avatar 2."
Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens wrote the film together, and though Jackson is best known as a director of the two Tolkien trilogies, he's remained on board in a producer's role.
Instead, it's Christian Rivers, a visual effects artist and supervisor from a number of previous Jackson films, who will be making his feature length debut on December 14, 2018.
"Mortal Engines" is adapted from the 2001 Philip Reeve novel about life in a steam-powered, globe-roving post-apocalyptic London. Three more books in the series were published between 2003 and 2006.
