LikeThe Hunger Games,Mortal Engineswas based on a successful book.
It also had a strong female lead and an interesting dystopian world.
Despite its potential,Mortal Enginesfailed to replicateThe Hunger Games success.
Other YA movies such asDivergentandThe Maze Runnerthat were poised to replaceThe Hunger Gameshad a similar fate.
But at least they achieved a level of success thatMortal Enginesfailed to attain.
Several factors accounted for whyMortal Engineswas a box office bomb.
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The film stars Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving, and Jihae Kim.
Mortal Engines is a 2018 action/adventure film from director Christian Rivers and writer Peter Jackson. Based on the novel by Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines is set 1,000 years in a post-apocalyptic future where cities are turned into giant vehicles that try to destroy one another. The film stars Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving, and Jihae Kim.
