With the success of Twilight and Hunger Games everyone wants a slice of the young adult pie. One of those films lining up in hopes of finding success is The Mortal Instuments: City Of Bones, based on Cassandra Clare’s series of novels. The film is about Clary Fray (Lily Collins), a teenager living in Brooklyn who learns that she is the descendent of a long line of demon hunters called Shadowhunters. Unsurprisingly this news completely changes her life and sets her off on a quest to find her mother – a fellow shadowhunter – who’s been kidnapped by somebody called Valentine.
In addition to Collins, the cast includes Lena Headey (Clary’s mother), Jamie Campbell Bower (Jace Wayland), Jared Harris (Hodge Starkweather), and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Valentine Morgenstern). Is is rather off that the entire main cast is British os Irish if the movie is set in New York. Has America run out of actors? Maybe we’re just better at fantasy on this side of the pond.
Now the first trailer and poster has arrived, which you can see here. The film hits cinemas August 23rd, 2013.