Cassandra Clare's 'Mortal Instruments' is coming to ABC Family

The TV series 'Shadowhunters' will reportedly be based on the 'Mortal Instruments' series by Cassandra Clare. Clare's new series, 'The Dark Artifices,' will debut in 2016.

|
Rafy/Sony Pictures Screen Gems/AP
The movie adaptation of 'The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones' starred Lily Collins (center) and Jamie Campbell-Bower (r.).

Cassandra Clare’s popular book series are coming to TV.

Clare’s young adult fantasy series “The Mortal Instruments” was first adapted as a movie titled “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones” was released in 2013 and starred actors Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower. The movie did not do well at the box office; however, Variety reported in 2013 that an adaptation of the second book in the series was still being made.

Then, in 2014, the Hollywood Reporter reported that producer Ed Decter would be the showrunner for a TV adaptation, so the focus seemed to have switched to a small-screen version of the story. The new TV show will be based on the "Mortal Instruments" books and will be titled “Shadowhunters,” according to Entertainment Weekly.

“Shadowhunters is a big epic saga that will resonate with viewers who come to ABC Family for the Harry PotterHunger Games and Twilight franchises,” ABC Family President Tom Ascheim said in a statement. 

Clare is also the author of other series set in the fictional world of “Instruments” such as “The Infernal Devices” and “The Dark Artifices,” the first book in which will debut in 2016.

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.
Real news can be honest, hopeful, credible, constructive.
What is the Monitor difference? Tackling the tough headlines – with humanity. Listening to sources – with respect. Seeing the story that others are missing by reporting what so often gets overlooked: the values that connect us. That’s Monitor reporting – news that changes how you see the world.

Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

QR Code to Cassandra Clare's 'Mortal Instruments' is coming to ABC Family
Read this article in
https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2015/0331/Cassandra-Clare-s-Mortal-Instruments-is-coming-to-ABC-Family
QR Code to Subscription page
Start your subscription today
https://www.csmonitor.com/subscribe