"After tackling the realm of Middle Earth, Hugo Weaving

Mortal Engines is the book, woops

>>81573117
>Natsworthy
Will he be worthy in the end?

Also, what books?

First line: “It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.”

>>81573117
>bloom effect, stat!

>>81573117
>>81573167
That's sounds like a pretty fucking neat setting, actually

>>81573117
So it's Howl's Moving Castle meets Mad Max?

>>81573177
It sounds retarded. Also, it'll be a horrific CGI shitfest.

>>81573197
t. fun police

>>81573117

I think they just like hanging out in NZ

>>81573197
No, fuck you. It sounds neat

>>81573197
If only they could build practical cities on wheels.

>>81573250
Those marvellous green screen hangars, what a sight to behold.

>>81573177
i remember seeing this picture and little story that went along with it fucking ages ago on deviantart, it always stuck with even all these years later because of how fucking cool it was.

basically humanity rode on the backs of these giant, fuckhuge, island sized creatures, different cultures lived on different creatures and the creatures grew as the populations ont hem grew, the humans built fortresses and giant weapons on the backs of the titans, got resources from their byproducts, helped their creature by hunting, capturing and feeding smaller creatures to it.

always thought it was the coolest fucking thing ever, this kinda sounds like it.

>>81573117
Oh shit I know this book, they presented it for us at the library during a school trip. I kinda regret never reading it.

>>81573253
There's more to film than being neat

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>>81573180

With a slightly steampunky feel to it, yeah

>>81573286
Yeah, and I was just talking about the setting, you cocksucker

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> book cover

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>>81573264
>there's totally no way to build miniatures

>>81573326
>any film after mid 2000s
>using miniatures

>>81573117
>Cities on wheels
Ehh, breaks disbelief a bit. I'd rather have a waterworld scenario where cities are gigantic ships where they also devour each other for resources.

>>81573326
>miniatures

that's little objects thanks, lets cut down on the offensive language

>>81573145
Any connection to Mortal Instruments where the cities were made of bones?

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>>81573326
It's awesome, but I still don't understand why they made it look like a gigantic ruin. I get it, it's supposed to be well past its prime and in a sort of cultural decline, but I think they went overboard with the look. Also, why the fuck is it surrounded by a barren desert, what do they eat?

>>81573197
Kys

going to ruin the book desu.
its a late teenage novel im not sure if there's more than one
if i knew how to spoiler id spoiler the plot but i wont

shit was pretty cash. Pissed me off how the main couple went full retard in the later books though.

So, who's he playing? Magnus Crome?

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>>81573443

Cities made of bones? I read all of mortal instruments and don't remember that. There's the italian city that they dimension-hop to and stuff in The Subtle Knife?

>>81573394

I think the only suspension is how powerful fuel is. If you can buy cities managing to move around by using each other's buildings and track / nibbling coal from open faces or eating forests, then there's not that much else. I think it could work.

>>81573491
[.spoiler]text goes here[./spoiler] without the dots, of course
or, if you're using quick reply, just select the text you want to spoiler and press ctrl+s

>>81573542
what are these things powered by?

>>81573586
poo

>>81573586
tax programs

not all the cities move

>>81573117
Yes I'm a big fan of the books actually.

>>81573326
Miniatures on wheels, don't be so absurd.

>>81573394
It has them as well. Brighton is a major ship-like traction city and Grimsby is a submarine parasite.

They aren't in the first book though.

>>81573117
Yup, one of my favourite book series. I wonder what Shrike will look like?

>>81573586
They prey on eachother in an ecosystem called municipal darwinism.

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>Peter Jackson is gonna get pigeonholed in teen fantasy shit and stop making original things

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>Resources are scarce
>Hurr durr better make our cities walk surely that's a great way to use our extremely limited energy

When you're writing a story it's generally a good idea to double check and make sure the premise isn't fucking retarded.

>>81573889
When's the last time he made an "original thing"? And it's not like his "original things" were ever that good in the first place.

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>>81573519

Valentine!

>>81573832

Each other, like animals

>>81573804

Good q

>>81573459
If i recall in the extended edition appendices for rotk they were looking for a location for pelennor fields but couldnt find one so they decided to go for the cgi route

>>81573995
This. Every time he tries to be original he makes something shitty. However I doubt he'll ever do something as monumental as LotR, that shit had years of pre-production.

>>81573117
Still got the books, which I loved as a kid. Dunno if it'll make a good movie series though.

>The book has won a Nestlé Smarties Book Prize

Very prestigious

>>81573552
>>81573491
I'll do it, just the first book though. For now at least.

>>81574167
This was in pre-production before the Hobbit was, like 2009. This is the project they had pause when Del-Torro dumped the Hobbit on them.

>>81574187

It sounds like it would make a good video game, but maybe I say that cause it reminds me of Arcanum.

>>81573910
I think its a commentary on our attitudes towards the environment. We are basically being equally as retarded in our current use of the world's resources.

>>81574207
If I ever wrote a book, I'd be stoked to get the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize

I'd prefer an "Inverted World" adaptation. - it's also about a moving city.

Christopher Nolan could direct it; he's already done The Prestige, which is based on a book by the same author, Christopher Priest.

The ending of the book is a monumental headfuck, which also suits Nolan's style

>>81574272
That's even more fucking stupid
MUH GREEEN ENERGIES

>>81573910
>le unable to suspend his disbelief guy

Like clockwork

>>81574219
People always cast Del Toro in such a bad light for the Hobbit.

>project was literally going nowhere
>studio didn't even have the rights to it
>Del Toro and the team spent a long time working on it regardless
>finally gets fed up and leaves
>project rights suddenly acquired
>Jackson brought on-board, but didn't have any pre-production time of his own
>went with CG for expediency

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>>81574272
>>81573910
>>81574294

This is basically the position of a major faction, the Anti-Traction League who want to BTFO all the traction cities.

>>81574294
>MUH GREEN ENERGIES
We, as as species, are literally(literally) destroying the planet we inhabit, and you're making fun of people who try to do something about it? You're living in a bubble.

>>81574294
I agree its pretty dumb. But I think that was the author's intent. These people are so obviously destroying their environment with a wasteful lifestyle but are oblivious because they either don't want to accept the truth or they were born into this system and don't know any alternative. The people who wish to live in fixed settlements are considered to be radical hippies with an unnatural lifestyle.

>>81574382
People supporting the "green energy" industry are to a one retarded, solar and Wind are memes and will never be remotely viable, not to mention they're wholly reliant on fossil fuels to even exist. If you want to write commentary on something you need to have a clue what you're talking about, otherwise you just end up writing a really dumb story.

>>81574446
Hydro and wave are highly reliable, clean and safe you fucking moron.

>>81574464
And nobody is campaigning for more Hydro, are they? They all want wind and solar. If they actually cared about green energy rather than just spouting stupid meme ideas they were indoctrinated with they'd be campaigning for Geothermal and Nuclear.

>>81574382
I don't think you even understand what a radical aka impossible overhaul it would take for us to switch the paradigm. For starters, are you get rid of all the transit powered by non-renewable fuels and mass herd animals we're raising? Answer to both is no.

>>81573910

I'd like to point out that the Green Storm are not the good guys in this situation. They're fanatical terrorists whose eventual leader wants humanity to go extinct.

>>81574488
Not nuclear, but we agree on principle. They aren't campaigning for Hydro because they're both uneducated and because Hydro rekts the environment(LOL). Geothermal and wave are feasible and reliable and the key to the future, unlike wind and solar which could lead to power failures whenever a fucking cloud decides to ruin your day and you have to revert to Hydro again. I'd go with Hydro anyway

>>81573177
Yeah I guess
It kind of beats you over the head with the theme but I can't say I've seen it before

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The thing you guys are arguing about is literally what the central war in the series is fought about, well done!

>>81574498
And the alternative is..?

>>81574556
what kind of energy density you get outta hydro? i ive always considered solar and wind poor alternatives ever since i read some information on how it'd take a fuckhuge area covered by either to match a single gas fired power plant.

>>81574556
why the fuck are people against nuclear. my whole countries bought into the nuclear bad meme.

>>81574855
because muh chernobyl

>>81574488
i guess the point is that over time both those will improve its like the fact that the first combustion engines were useless its better than we start thinking about the future now so we can prefect it rather than wait till the very last position

Fuck yeah.
I read the first book like 6 years back and remember it was good.
I can't wait for a film desu

Just a quick question. What happened? Why are we sill draped apes?

I often find it hard to suspend disbelief about the kind of sci-fi or sci-fantasy where people for some reason just stopped doing AI or genetic engineering or uploading or anything that might have lead to a transhumanist revolution.

In this world, what was the catastrophic event that ended it all?

>>81573361

>what is studio laika
>what is weta workshop

>>81574870
if hes german its muh fukushema seriously i cant believe they started to shut down all the plants in germany after fukushima as if an earthquake is going to hit germany

>>81574219

>The large predator traction city London has been scavenging around the western hunting ground, a desert where the North Sea used to be. Hunting shitty little mining suburbs for fuel, that's what its doing in this image >>81573542
>London is run by four Guilds, the most prominent two being the Engineers, whose leader is the Lord Mayor, and the Historians.
>The head historian, Valentine, has recently returned to London, having found a lost technology on an expedition to the Dead Continent (North America)
>An apprentice historian, called Tom, helps Valentine and his daughter Katherine make sure nothing valuable is lost in London's digestion yards, after it caught and started dismantling one of these small mining towns.
>A young woman with a covered face who was on the mining town, Hester Shaw, attempts to assassinate Valentine.
>Tom stops her, and sees that her face is horribly scarred from a sword wound, missing an eye, a lot of her nose, and twisting her mouth.
>She falls off the city
>Because he saw her face, Valentine tries to kill Tom by throwing him down a waste shoot
>Tom survives however, and along with Hester, start following London east across Europe.
>They hitchike on a tiny town that takes them to a market cluster of small towns gathered in the mountains. They are however drugged and attempted to be sold as slaves.
>Meanwhile in London Valentine and the Lord Mayor are becoming concerned that Hester may have survived, and might be able to reveal why London is travelling east.
>The Lord Mayor send an airship carrying a bounty hunter, the Stalker Shrike, who came to London in search for Hester, to find her and Tom's bodies in London's trackmarks. Shrike quickly realises that they survived and starts tracking them.
>Tom and Hester escape, and book passage on an Airship with a east asian Aviator, Anna Fang, who herself was once an escaped slave from one of the largest and most powerful living traction cities, the Russian City Arkangel.

>the protagonists daughter gets blacked

>>81574925
iirc its loss of water and a little bit of artistic license

>>81573167
It was a dark and stormy night in winter, and the city of Manhatten was chasing s small coal town across the dry wasteland of the mid west.

>>81574935
What if it does tho?

>>81574855
I'm on the fence about it. Security and safety have to be tighter than a teen chink pussy before the monsoon season tho.

I'll watch it, but only if the giant city on wheels stops, surveys it's destination, and says it's name aloud.

I love how this series escalates by the end the first book seems so quaint

>>81574925
There was something called The Sixty Minute War you can guess what happened

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QT Icelandic as shaw though

>>81575033
So it was a handball match that turned ugly? Who started it?

These books are actually pretty great, especially for YA.

>>81575000
last i check germany isnt near any fault lines so if an earthquake was strong enough to do any damage to germany it would probably be the end of most of europe anyway.
i think may a meteorite hitting it would be likely

>>81573167
> it was a dark and stormy night
nice job snoopy

>>81575065
Global Nuclear War the series takes place so long afterwards that theres barely any historical records, America is completely irradiated and uninhabitable though and I think Australia is just gone if I remember. Canada turns out to be a haven though

I read an old french sci-fi book from the 60s that was almost exactly like that.

Except it was on tripods, not on wheels.

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>>81573117
HOLY FUCK YES!

I loved these books when i was younger they are hugely underrated and will make incredible movies if done well.

Was pretty dark in places for a "kids" book and had some great original ideas.

>>81575121
>Canada turns out to be a haven though

I hate it when scifi gets so far fetched.

>>81575137
>that doctor that grafted a dead little girls head onto a dogs body

was he /ourguy/

>>81575159
At least shitposters are extinct in that world, poo in the loos EVERYWHERE though, the films will probably get a lot of diversity points

>>81575121
implying the bad guys can make the distinction between the US and Canada

if you get it, we will also get it

>>81574938
So wait. EVERYONE had the same idea to give their cities wheels?

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>>81575000
not a single fucking accident in 40 years but nah, because fukushima its just shut em all down. and it was after the being hit by 2 fucking disasters, an earthquake THEN a tsunami and even then only because the company was retarded and didnt plan for earthquake + tsunami combo in the worlds most earthquake and tsunami prone country.

how many earthquake tsunami combos are gonna hit plants here? irrational fear is fucking holding us back god dammit.

>>81573326
That's Peter Jackson's work. He's dead now.

Peter Hackson is going to do more CGI than the prequels.

>>81575265
Europe and Africa all used wheeled cities, Asia is full off hippies, the Himalayas is their stronghold where wheeled cities can't travel

>>81575302
I'd be more afraid of terrorism these days. I wonder if France's reliance of nuclear power plants is going to be a problem if ALLAHU AKBARS get even more serious.

>>81575213
Canada did get it as well, but many thousands of years have passed since the 60 minute war.

>>81575265
No. Most do because if they don't they'll be eaten. Wait till I finish writing the rest. I'll start getting into spoiler territory though.

A lot of cities only move when they have to as well.

>>81574925

It's a very distant future setting, while there was a nuclear war the books are set thousands of years after it. The prequel books, which in turn are set hundreds of years before the main series, do concern a genetically engineered race called the Scriven, who were originally designed specifically as a backup in case humanity died out.

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I'll also be interested how they pull off the main female "Hester Shaw" as her face is meant to be horribly scarred from getting a sword split her face when she was young, they will probably give her a scar but still make her kinda hot no doubt though.

>>81575330
mowing people down in cars is easier, gets the desired response and keeps retaliation low

>>81575179
Mate might have to re-read them, only vaguely remember that.

>>81573117
I read the a while back for whatever reason.
Sounds like it'd would make for an interesting cgi shitfest as opposed to the lackluster cgi shitfests we usually get.

>tfw when humanity rediscovers heavier-than-air flight over the course of the series

>>81575388
It's literally a single throwaway line (probably how it got past censors) but it stuck with me forever, It's in the 4th book when they start mass producing stalkers

>>81575330
how many people would you need to break into a nuclear power plant? the muzzies attacks have always been pretty low key. they never do anything like send 30 guys to attack a place and i feel like that's sorta how many you'd need to break into a nuclear power plant. and then they need to actually be smart enough to damage it in just the right way to do the most damage possible, just blowing random shit up won't do the most damage possible.

>>81575363
B-but a scar like that is my fetish!

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>solar and wind energy will never be viable

Spoken like a true tool
BUAHUAHAUAHUAHAUAHAUHAUAHAUHAUA

>>81573995
heavenly creatures?

>>81575363
This, out of all the the things in these books the biggest problem Hollywood and general audiences would have with it is Hester's scar

>>81575476
wind energy is super high maintenance.

the infrastructure for solar just simply isn't that good yet (see germany) but i can be.

saying never is silly yeah, but it certainly isn't viable on a large scale right now.

>>81575302
>not a single fucking accident in 40 years
LOL

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Superior movable city book coming through.

>>81575481
That was based on a true event.

>>81575505
fine i got it wrong, 28 years since one here you pedantic cunt

>>81575265

It didn't really happen like that. After the war most of civilisation was made up of nomad caravans, who had to keep moving because the weapons used in the war fucked all manner of shit up and there were constant volcanic eruptions and ice ages and so on. After a few thouusand years the world calmed down a bit but they stayed nomadic because that was the way of life. As the nomad populations started to rise they started building bigger and bigger vehicles for their caravans, called traction fortresses, and waging war with each other for resources. Eventually the biggest nomad empire takes over London at which point it's a fairly natural transition to convert it to a traction city. After that it was basically a case for other cities of going traction or getting eaten by London.

>>81575548
1968 Lucens
1979 Three Mile Island
1986 Chernobyl
1997 Tokaimura
1999 Tokaimura
2011 Fukushima

>>81575500
I'm hoping they go all out with it as the book states multiple times that she is very ugly because of it, also it fits with the whole disability/physically deformed hero thing i could see Hollywood wanting to promote.

That and her daughter gets blacked so i'm starting to see why this might have got the green light.

>>81575631
we're talking specifically about germany, why join a conversation when you hadnt read anything that went before?

Holy fuck I'm so hyped for this it was my favourite book series when I was younger, please don't fuck this up Jackson

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>record scratch
>yep, that's me, The name's Shrike...you're probably wondering how I got into this mess well let me fill you in
>vhs rewind
>footage of the nuclear war
>woah too far!
>fast forward
>It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea

>>81575657
hello nufag

>>81575731
How fucking young are you?

>>81575742
If they do Shrike well the movies could be incredible as he has such a great character arch, the ending of the 4th book with Shrike always stuck with me.

>>81574938
>They fly over a dead large predator city, which's wreckage is being dismantled and digested by thousands of smaller towns.
>Anna takes them to the one flying city Airhaven (Which looks a bit like that city in bioshock infinite) which is a well known port for aviators.
>Shrike catches them up here and attacks them in a bar.
>Shrike is an ancient cyborg >>81575137, created from a corpse in a long forgotten war
>Tom and Hester escape in a hot air baloon while Anna and other aviators in the bar hold Shrike off
>Hester tells Tom her backstory.
>Hester's mother used to go on expeditions with Valentine. They were researching an old weapon they recovered,
Valentine wanting to rebuild it and sell it to make London to make it more powerful
>Valentine killed her Mother when she was a little girl, and attempted to kill her too but only managed to mutalate her face before she escaped
>She was then found by Shrike,
who adopted her until she grew up and left him to find London.
>Meanwhile in London, Valentine's daughter Katherine is investigating what happened to Tom in the digestion yards back at the start, along with a low class Engineer called Bevis Pod.
>Bevis works in one of London's the sewer treatment plants. Supervising prisoners as they work on the sewage treatment. He was there when Tom unmasked Hester, and he saw her face too.
>A larger predator, the German City Panzerstadt-Bayrueth, begins hunting London across the central Hunting Ground, which is around Eastern Europe, Middle East sort of area.
>Valentine leaves London on another expedition in his airship.
>Shrike catches up with Tom and Hester again in a marsh somewhere in the middle east/southern Russia.
>Shrike is however crushed by the Suburb Tunbridge Wheels, as Tom and Hester hitchhike onto it
They are then captured by the suburbs citizens, and their leader Chrysler Peavy

>>81575767
How fucking old are you?

>>81575731
Agreed loved the books when i was younger and they have the potential to make some great movies, but after what Hackson did to the Hobbit i'm pretty concerned.

>>81575791
They'll make him a quipbot and he'll be played by Andy Serkis

>>81575805
Answer him you little bitch

>>81573542
>There's the italian city that they dimension-hop to and stuff in The Subtle Knife?
You're confusing mortal instruments with His Dark Materials, which is the book series with the Subtle Knife.

>>81575887
>him
To humour you I'm in university

>>81575476
Wind is a meme and solar will only be good once we discover and design semiconductors like 300% better than the current ones used for solar energy

>>81575817
I hope for clever practical effects but I know it's a pipedream, I really hope we don't end up with that shitty bloom effect that fucking plagued the latter 2 hobbit films

finally something fresh

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>>81575930
>wind is a meme

I will never understand the ignorance of some people

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>>81574938

I hope Hester is as ugly as she's meant to be, as that is half her character, but Hollywood cannot be trusted

Can't wait for the masses of neckbeards crying at the interracial relationship

>>81575919
You'r eliterally at your worst as a human being right now. Even worst than your teen years.

In a few years you'll look back at this time of your life and you will cringe so hard and laugh uneasily about it all.

>>81576000
>ugly

I find scars sexy. Fuck, I though Jenifer in Masters of Horror was hot as fuck, even her face.

>>81576089
If I remember it's even worse than that picture shows, pretty sure she's missing parts of her nose as well

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>implying they're not going to cast this scrawny punchable-ass motherfucker as Tom

>implying Hester's scar is going to be more than barely noticeable

>implying Hester won't just be misunderstood instead of genuinely a pretty awful person

it's ogre before it's begun

>>81575792
>Peavy is taking his amphibious suburb to the a sea which covers where Khazakhstan used to be
On an island in the sea Airhaven has landed, as it does occasionally for maintenance, and Peavy wants to take advantage of this to capture it
>Airhaven however see Tunbridge Wheels coming and bomb it, sinking it
>Peavy and some of his henchman,
along with Tom and Hester wash up on the island
Peavy is killed by his own men
A heavily damaged Shrike catches up and easily kills Peavy's henchmen
Shrike then explains to Hester that he has to kill her, so he can make her into a cyborg stalker too. She agrees if Shrike will let Tom live.
Tom however stabs Shike and disables him. Before collapsing however Shrike breaks Tom's ribs
A search party from Airhaven, lead by Anna Fang, find them and take them back to Airhaven
>Katherine and Bevis, on London, sneak into a presentation to high ranking Engineers by the Lord Mayor.
>He demontrates the new weapon by blowing up the German City that was going to eat London
>Katherine and Bevis are spotted however and go into hiding with the engineers at London Museum

>>81576144
They're already filming anon.
Tom's being played by that dude off Misfits.

>>81576219
How am I supposed to imagine a city eating another city? Do they have mouths? Do they have digestive tracts? So only a city can only eat another city if the latter is much smaller?

>>81575436
How many guys were involved in the Paris attacks? A dozen? Getting 30 together is hardly far-fetched.

>>81576268
I imagine it's like a giant trash compactor

>>81576268
Yes, the book talks about municipal darwinism a lot in regard to this idea.

>>81576301
So city 1 has to be much larger then or else how is it going to fit city 2 into its garbage compactor?

>>81576324

When you eat a steak do you swallow it whole?

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>>81576117
Yeah she's meant to be missing an eye and pretty much her whole nose that and her mouth is twisted into a permanent snarl, the books repeatedly state how ugly she is yet guaranteed we will get something like pic related in the movie.

>>81576324
If the city is too big to fit into another one the jaws just mash it to shit until it does

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Pretty good fit for Hester I think

>>81573117
>Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the Outlands

Another witty, strong, independent woman? Dropped.

>>81576341
>>81576380
Okay, fair enough. But if they're similar size then they would just mash at each other.

Also whatever happened to, you know, weapons?

>>81576268
They have ''''Jaws'''' and ''''digestive yards'''', though they're like dismantling yards with workers, but as I said >>81575792 smaller towns can eat from far bigger ones.

>>81575964
average windmill capacity is like 2-3 megawatts, over the course of a year, they only generate roughly 25% of their theoretical maximum capacity. it would take like 2,200 windmills to match the output of a single nuclear power plant like Grohnde. and they dont generate consistent, reliable power either. wind turbines cost 1-2 million per MW. so something like 6 billion to replace Grohnde. nope, turns out i underestimated. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/03/21/the-little-reactor-that-could-germanys-grohnde-nuclear-plant/#22c5fa4121a4 says it'll cost 12 billion to replace Grohnde. compare that to 18bn pounds for a 3200MW nuclear plant englands building.

tell me why you think wind isnt a meme.

>>81576409

Nah she's actually pretty horrific, both to look at and in terms of her inner self

>>81576424
There used to be loads of really powerful weapons but they basically all used them against each other and destroyed each other, the plot of the first book is about London remaking one of those weapons

>>81576424
It's been ages since I've read them, but I remember compressed air pistols and crossbows being the main weapons at first by book 4 we have lasers and shit. The big plot of the first book is London using an ancient superweapon to nuke other cities

>>81576431
Also, there's a certain capacity a country needs so the whole network doesn't crash and it needs to be kept stable, especially during the key hours of the day: 7-10 and 17-19. If you can't generate the amount of power you need with wind turbines or solar panels(which some days you can't) the whole network crashes and you still have to rely on nuclear/hydro/coal.

>>81576445
She's a soft cutie deep inside though, that's one thing i liked about the books over the course of them the characters have some pretty good arch's

>>81576489
>She's a soft cutie deep inside

Who has no qualms whatsoever about leaving dozens of children to drown?

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>>81575910

Ah sorry - I don't know mortal instruments, what is it?

>>81576268

They have big mechanical jaws which are used to disable the treads/wheels and engines of the other city and they then send boarding parties on to break it up for scrap and fuel.

There are areas referred to as the "tracts" which are the scrapyards and engine-rooms, which serve the same purpose as a digestive tract.

A very small town could be swallowed whole by a big conurbation - cities would need to disable each other then pick over the carcass for a few weeks. There are tiny scavenger hamlets that will crawl all over it stealing little things too - it's all very nature inspired.

>>81573117
i read one of these things

i only really remember the robot superassassin tho

>>81576507
She's a cutie for Tom and no one else basically, her behavior and mindset are a result of her upbringing and the post-apocalyptic world

>>81576529
Fang>Shrike

>>81576556
CYBER-MOMMY

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>>81576424

Some cities have airships which bomb other cities to take them out but it's a bit controversial. Most weapons are kinda 19th centuryish too - there are swordfights when too close for guns, which have not much range either.

>>81576507
>>81576489
>>81576445
>>81576409

Yeah Hester is evil asf. It's one of the things I liked and is unusual in YA, two protagonists who genuinely have massive flaws but you can still root for.

>>81576507
Okay true i guess what i mean is she becomes incredibly attached to Tom to the point where she is willing to hurt anyone to save him.

Kinda like in the second book where she gets jealous over that Ice princess girl or whatever she was.

>>81576556
Holy shit forgot all about Fang just remembered the tumbler pilots as well.

>>81576554
tfw your cutie scarred girlfreind gets jealous of a cute blonde, so she sells Anchorage's location the Arkangel

>>81574728

Kill all Indians, Chinese and Niggers.

I saw Hobbit 3. Not giving this bitch another chance.

>>81573408
omgg underrated bruhh

>>81574934
>what is studio laika
an animation studio, not relevant here.

>what is weta workshop
when was the last time WETA used miniatures for a movie on a big enough scale?

>>81573145
>>81573167
>>81573322
sounds bretty cool, gonna read this

>>81573586
communistic atheism

>>81573586

Other cities, but what they should have done is use edgy /tv/ comments from misanthropic underage /pol/tards and scarcity would have long stopped being a problem

>>81573624
>>81576807

>>81576219
>Anna Fang is actually, 'the windflower' an anti-tractionist terrorist
>She takes Tom and Hester to Batmunkh Gumpa, one of the last and strongest static strongholds
>It has become apparent that this is where London is heading
Valentine is there as well, and destroys the fortresses Airship fleet and has a swordfight with Anna Fang, who he kills
Engineer soldiers storm London Museum, declaring that the Historian Guild are plotting to destroy the weapon, the Historians hold them off, while Katherine and Bevis take a bomb up to the top of London to destroy the weapon
>Hester and Tom take the last Airship,
Anna Fang's ship, to London so that Hester can kill Valentine
>They are attacked by Valentine's Airship above London, Tom shoots it down,
and its flaming wreckage hits London and kills Bevis
>Katherine and Hester both arrive at the weapon's control room. Valentine attempts to stab Hester, but Katherine stands in the way and he kills her instead
The weapon starts to overload, and as Tom and Hester escape in Anna Fang's airship it misfires onto London itself, destroying the traction city
>Tom and Hester then go on to have further adventures.

>>81576944
Pretty good summary anon

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>>81576383
Seems good to me

Not sure about this guy playing Tom though

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>>81574938
>>81575792
>>81576219
>>81576870

Nice synopsis lad. What scenes do you think they'd remove for the movie, if any?

I think the first town and Peavy's one could be combined, and Bevis might not be included at all.

Peter Jackson is not directing though.

>>81573167
>>81573177
>>81573253
>>81573272

PDF for those who want to read it

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.unife.it/letterefilosofia/llmc/insegnamenti/letteratura-inglese-II/materiale-didattico/programma-bibliografia-calendario-lezioni-modalita-desame-e-materiale-didattico-letteratura-inglese-ii-laurea-interclasse-anno-accademico-2015-2016/Philip%2520Reeve-%2520Mortal%2520Engines-%25202001.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwjHqsWS1aHTAhVp6oMKHWC6B04QFggaMAA&usg=AFQjCNFsxRDf391ZGx4E0jciRO2RHOi-EA&sig2=wviP6N2WB3UIZF_4faaINg

>>81577085

Yeah he doesn't really seem very like an earnest, decent young orphan. I guess everyone can bust out of typecasting.

>>81577088
Bevis was one of the first cast announcements.

Its been filming for a few months now.

>>81576613
>>/tumblr/ pilots

this is going to go down well with the sjw audience

>>81573117

>steampunk

NOPE

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>This is the actress for Fang
YES

Late to the thread, but Mortal Engines series was one of the only YA series I read in my teens that I think holds up well today.

So long as it isn't ruined with Hobbit-tier green-screen, it could be a great series. It's got likeable, "stronk" female characters, a steampunk-ish aesthetic that isn't fedora, and touches on themes that are relevant today. I'm fairly hyped

>>81577584
it's not though

>>81577627

>The book focuses on a futuristic, steampunk version of London

NOPE NOPE NOPE

>>81577658

It's an odd mix. There's big machinery and colonial-era weapons - which is steampunk - but things like the groundcars, the shield-wall, Shrike and ODIN are more futurism. It's certainly not full-fat top-hatted steamfedoras.

The movies will define what the aesthetic is, I guess.

>>81573117
if he was in a high speed pursuit, he'd be Hugo Weaving in and out of traffic.

>>81577658
It's literally not though.

>>81577746

>its not steampunk

>ok its steampunk

NOPE
O
P
E

>>81577791

>it's not a shitpost

>it's a shitpost

Y E P
E
P

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>guy who was the colonel in Avatar is Peavey
Noice

>>81577791

Is Thomas the Tank Engine steampunk?

Is The Railway Children steampunk?

>>81573995
Braindead?

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>>81577562
There pretty cool basically suicide bombers

>The Tumbler was a small one-man kamikaze missile-craft used extensively by the Green Storm during the Green Storm War. They were used to attack gun-emplacements, fortresses and other strategic features on Traction cities. The earlier Tumblers were piloted by Stalker brains but this was discontinued after it was found that they could not maneuver through enemy fire.

>Later Tumbler models were piloted by young and idealistic Green Storm volunteers who wanted to die for the Green Storm's beliefs and goals

>>81577094
This is retarded.

>>81577919
Neither of those settings are anything like Mortal Engines' Great Hunting Ground either though.

I think the closest thing I've seen is the anime Nausicaa.

>>81577601
Her and >>81576383 seem pretty good casting, pretty much exactly as i imagined them (except with the scar obviously for Hester)

>>81577957
Read the whole book before making judgments, the 4 books actually have some pretty neat world building.

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Bevis looks too good to be an engineer apprentice I think.
Would love to see the whole series adapted, but then that would involve Wren who is the worst character in the whole thing. Would be interesting to see them deal with the time-skip between books 2-3 through.

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Would you a Katherine Valentine?

>>81578124
Mate do you think Hollywood would skip the opportunity to show a female protagonist getting BLACKED?

>>81578292
True. But I'm less concerned about that than Wren being a boring protag whose character arc is the worst in the series, so much so that her getting BLACKED is probably the most interesting thing to happen to her.

I hope they make it to book 3 and then cast a qt for my waifu Oenone.

>>81578124
>Its cold
>My feet hurt
>Another convict just fell in the shit tank.
>tfw no qt historian guild gf

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Environmentalists are really going to hate it if they get to the third movie.

Would these books be good reads to get into as an adult? I'm intrigued by the subject but the YA moniker has me unsure

>>81579207
>/tumblr/s are literal suicide bombers, brainwashed into obedience to a radical sect which overthrows the more moderate, pre-existing movement
>members of this movement often dye their hair an abnormal colour to show solidarity
hmmm

>>81573117
I only read the first book but it was great. Looking forward to this

>>81579278
Yeah they're pretty good.

Someone linked a PDF of the first book if you want to have a read, but you can get the whole series quite cheaply at the moment.

>>81579278
Of all the YA literature I read in my early- to mid-teens, this was the series that I think held up the most and that I remember most fondly. The setting is pretty unique and engaging and the characters are almost universally well-written with great story-arcs. I think the tetralogy runs to about 1600 pages in total, so it's not a massive read for 4 books.

>>81579278
Better when your younger, it was proabably the first series that properly got me into reading.

That being said though it's definitely worth a read as an adult it's a really good story with some original world building and ideas.

>the ending of the fourth book
I think it was the most emotional 14-year old me had ever been after reading a book.

>>81579278

Great world building & character-driven drama with minimal angst. It's what YA should be.

>>81579814
please do not spoil for friends who have only just discovered the series exists thanks to this thread.

>>81579886
Good point lad

>>81576000
She'll be ugly alright. An ugly black girl. Like Valkyrie in Thor Ragnarok.

>>81579553

the fucking epilogue with shrike in the new world is LITERAL kino

>>81581288
>They ask Shrike what he is for, and he states that he is a Remembering Machine

>>81573117
Everyone on /tv/ should go read the book (Mortal Engines) and the following three books in the series. They're for kids, but the average IQ on here makes up for that.

All four books tells an incredibly depressing but amazing story and the world it builds is better than most adult fantasy.

I forgot this movie was being made, I loved the books when I was a kid

>>81581711
Jackson expressed an interest in doing it in 2011 or around about then, I think Hobbit got in the way so it's only just come around.

>>81581619
Doesn't look like there are any fights, so it's boring.

>>81582261
There's plenty of action in all the books, especially the last two which is an all out war between the Green Storm and the Traktionstadtsgesellchaft.

>>81582388
I was just baiting, but sounds fun. Will give it a read.

>>81582465
Don't worry mate i gathered, read the books though it's honestly a great little series with some incredible potential for movies if they don't fuck it up.

Pretty sad story overall with some brilliant character arcs and world building for young adult fiction.

>>81573117
>mortal engine film
HYPE

>>81573117
I find Hugo Weaving distractingly ugly. I just can't enjoy him in movie because of it. Anyone else agree?

>>81573117
is it only gonna be post apocalyptic landscapes or will he get to use new zealand as a backdrop once again?

>>81582843
I imagine they will be using New Zealand's landscapes for the Anti-Traction leagues settings although near everywhere else in the first book that's not set on cities is like >>81573301

>>81582922
>I imagine they will be using New Zealand's landscapes for the Anti-Traction leagues settings
aren't they based in the Himalayas though

>>81582974
Yeah the strongholds are but i'm sure there are plenty of places in New Zealand that would look similar.

I hope i'm not speaking out my arse and everything won't be a cgi shitshow

>>81582843

The Great Hunting Ground is mostly grassy muddy landscapes with wide straight valleys and rivers created by city tracks. pic related >>81573301

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>>81573117
>the year is 2017
>as of yet no one has attempted to create the Horus Heresey series on screen
>instead we get some retarded CGI shitfest as generic as they come

Absolutely disgusting

>>81573459
dat symmetry and aesthetics, dayum

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>>81583225
>Generic as they come
>Mortal Engines

>>81576944
This is one weird story. I can easily imagine Hollywood butchering it for being too complicated.

>>81573117
Whsnt this a monty python setch at the beginning of the movie

Never heard of this, but it sound interesting. Better than muh divergents and hungery games.

>>81573117
Hackson ready to hack another project up?


The Hobbit trilogy was fucking awful

>>81583602
It's really not like other YA fiction, for a start the characters are all pretty flawed especially the main girl Hester Shaw if anything she's a pretty bad person as things go not to mention her appearance >>81576350

It's also pretty dark >>81575179 for example, also it's not really a happy ending.

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>>81583493
Here kiddos, done

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aSO9OFJNMBA

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I want to fuck Hester!