Peter Jacksons "Mortal Engines" will release in India on December 7, a week before its US release. Universal Pictures International India is bringing the film to India. It will release in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, read a statement to IANS.

Jackson is on board as a producer and screenwriter, re-teaming with the "Hobbit" screenwriters with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens in "Mortal Engines", which is set in a steampunk world where entire cities have been mounted on wheels and prey on one another. It depicts a world of predator cities existing thousands of years after current civilization has been destroyed by a cataclysmic event.