If Mortal Engines takes off, Sheehan and Raftery can look forward to appearing in three more movies based on Reeve’s YA series, which also includes the books Predator’s Gold, Infernal Devices and A Darkling Plain.
Hollywood has cooled on YA properties after lukewarm box office returns for the Divergent series among others, but Mortal Engines sounds like it could be imaginative and visually stunning enough to break the YA curse.
Two additional films of Sheehan’s, Ari Gold’s Song of Sway Lake and Devlin’s Geostorm, are both in post-production.
Ronan Raftery has the Harry Potter prequel Fantasic Beasts under his belt, in addition to the war drama Siege in Jadotville co-starring Jamie Dornan.