Helix showrunner Ed Decter will develop Cassandra Clare's YA fantasy franchise for the small screen
After stalling at the box office, The Mortal Instruments is coming back. As a television series.
Constantin Film, the production company that controls the rights to Cassandra Clare's best-selling YA fantasy franchise and which produced The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones film, is relaunching Mortal Instruments as a high-end drama series.
Constantin had originally planned to turn Clare's fantasy series into a feature film franchise but shelved that idea after the first Mortal Instruments film, starring Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower, tanked at the box office, earning just $31 million domestically. Constantin, however, insisted it had not abandoned the franchise and planned to return to Mortal Instruments.
“It actually makes sense to do (the novels) as a TV series,” Constantin film and TV head Martin Moszkowicz told THR. “There was so much from the book that we had to leave out of the Mortal Instruments film. In the series we'll be able to go deeper and explore this world in greater detail and depth.”
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“@LuraPanda: " please, do you know if the actors will be recast?” I don't know, no.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) October 12, 2014“@Alvampirita: " What do you think about the news?” I think it is cool. There is so much scope in a TV series to explore the story.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) October 12, 2014“@uanrunes: " do you think they will start over with city of bones or start from city of ashes?” Start over.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) October 12, 2014
