Jumping on the supernatural teen novels to movies boom, Screen Gems is now on board to adapt the New York Times Bestseller series Mortal Instruments with Constantin Film and Unique Features.
Screen Gems has teamed with Constantin Film and Unique Features to develop the motion picture franchise MORTAL INSTRUMENTS based on The New York Times Bestselling book series The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare. Jessica Postigo penned the script which is based on the first book in the series, City of Bones. Constantin Film’s head of Film & TV Martin Moszkowicz will executive produce and Robert Kulzer will produce the project via the Constantin Film banner along with producing partners Michael Lynne, Robert Shaye, and executive producer Dylan Sellers via their Unique Features banner.
The rights to the book were optioned by Screen Gems almost a year ago, and this prompted me to read the series. But radio silence on the property seemed to indicate that it was going nowhere until we got this press release.
The book series wrapped up nicely in 3 volumes, City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass, and will apparently start up again in the upcoming City of Fallen Angels. Story revolves around teenager Clary Fray’s search for her missing mother, which leads her to a city filled with mysterious fairies, raucous warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other demons. And a group of teens trained by the upper elite to keep them all in line.
Originally the whole trilogy was going to be the basis of the film, and after reading it I wasn’t sure how they were going to condense 3 novels worth of stories into one movie, and it looks like they are not doing that now.
Currently a script is written based on the first book of the series, and with luck the first of a franchise.
