Why Mortal Engines should be turned into a Netflix show
We've had the Mortal Engines movie and it bombed at the box office, yet it's a good watch, and probably will become a cult film over time.
There's plenty of stories to be told in the Mortal Engines realm - so what if, it was re-born as a Netflix television series?
Given the movie has told the first part of the story of Tom and Hester, a new approach could be to do a series which focuses on the story of Anna Fang and how she came to be a leader of the Anti Traction League.
This kind of approach would be a fresh lens to attract new viewers to the franchise.
Author Philip Reeve has crafted such a wonderful character in Anna Fang, she's really a fan favorite. Night Flights rounded off some really good plot origins that were merely hinted at in the novels and this could provide the grounds for a really good origin story that sets up the franchise afresh.
Let's say that's season one, the Anna Fang story. You could tell her origin and then cut to her death at the end of the season.
Season two could be a soft reboot of sorts that tells the story of Tom and Hester but perhaps it doesn't need to focus on the story of the first novel. It could be covered pretty quickly and then they could move onto new adventures, the kind perhaps found in Predator's Gold.
Indeed, one doesn't have to focus on Tom and Hester at all really - you could indeed skip to book three of the Mortal Engines series, Infernal Devices and tell the tale of Wren, the daughter of Tom and Hester. T&H could then play more supporting roles.
Given how the character of Anna Fang is resurrected and turned into a Stalker in Wren's story, Anna Fang's 'bad guy' arc could be wound really epically into a central storyline, which sort of bounces off the season one story points so the conflicted character could come out to play.
Naturally, Jihae should play the adult Anna again.
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