Hera Hilmar (Da Vinci’s Demons) has landed the female lead role in Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh’s Mortal Engines, according to Variety.
Hera Hilmar will join Robbie Sheehan (Fortitude, upcoming Geostorm) and Ronan Raftery (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, AMC’s upcoming The Terror) in the film.
Mortal Engines is set in a world many thousands of years in the future.
Christian Rivers is attached to direct Mortal Engines.