Stephen Lang joins Peter Jackson’s YA adaptation Mortal Engines
The key to any good franchise targeted at young people is finding appropriately cool or inoffensive young people to star in it. The Hunger Games nailed this, making Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Hemsworth’s brother, and the other guy into household names, and it looks like Peter Jackson’s YA-skewing Mortal Engines movie might do the same for an up-and-coming young star named Stephen Lang—who previously appeared as the grizzled military guy in Avatar, the blind and grizzled military guy in Don’t Breathe, and the grizzled military guy in Terra Nova.