With so many young adult books being turned into movies, what would you say to people to get them to understand that this is a very different type of story with its own mythology?ĬLARE: Yeah, I feel really lucky about Lily, like we won the lottery. So I thought, “How do I feel about turning this whole project over to people and letting them do what they want with it, not even knowing about it?” And then, Unique Features approached me – and that’s Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, and they did The Lord of the Rings, which are my favorite movies in the world – and I thought, “Well, if I’m going to sell this to somebody, it should be the people who made my favorite movies.” I knew enough about the business to know that the usual role of the author on a movie is to get out of the way and not say anything.
I was excited about the idea, but I also was a little freaked out. Check out what she had to say after the jump.Ĭollider: When you started receiving interest about turning your book into a film, were you immediately excited about it, or were you hesitant about the idea?ĬASSANDRA CLARE: I was a little hesitant. While at WonderCon, author Cassandra Clare, who created The Mortal Instruments world that the film is based on, spoke to Collider for this exclusive interview about initially being a little hesitant about a film version, what finally reassured her, why she wanted to be involved with casting, how lucky she feels that Lily Collins is in the lead role, what made Jamie Campbell Bower the perfect Jace, how weird it is to have the last book in the series coming out in 2014 while the film based on the first book is coming out this August, and what inspired The Dark Artifices series, which takes place five years after the end of The Mortal Instruments books.
For more on the film, watch the new trailer or watch our interview with Campbell Bower. Adapted from the book by Cassandra Clare, action-adventure fantasy also stars Jamie Campbell Bower, Kevin Zegers, Jared Harris, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Lena Headey, CCH Pounder and Aidan Turner. Set in contemporary New York City, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones tells the story of Clary Fray ( Lily Collins), a seemingly ordinary teenager who discovers that she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret organization of young half-angel warriors in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons.
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