'Mortal Engines': Do you need to read the books before you watch the movie?
Peter Jackson's mammoth movie 'Mortal Engines' is coming soon and while you wait, there's an important question that needs answering. Will you love the film more, if you happened to read the book?
For those of you who aren't aware, 'Mortal Engines' is based on Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet - a four-part series that follows human life after the apocalypse. The first part, 'Mortal Engines' came out in 2001 and after receiving raving reviews, went on to win Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Award. Such was the buzz that a friend of Jackson's happened to tell him to check it out and it had the 'Lord of the Rings' creator hooked. Not long after, Jackson decided to turn Reeve's imagination into a film and bought the movie making rights to it in 2008. However, like every big screen book adaptation out there, Jackson has also tweaked bits here and there.