Christian Rivers' journey to the director's chair for fantasy-drama Mortal Engines began with a letter he wrote as a teenage movie fan growing up in New Zealand.
He had just watched a VHS tape of Bad Taste (1987), the debut feature from The Lord Of The Rings trilogy director Peter Jackson, and decided to send the film-maker a piece of fan mail. The 15-year-old Rivers was a keen artist and he enclosed several drawings of dragons.
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