Must be a great time to be a young adult novel writer as it seems to be the new gold mine for films. Get your book series on the New York Times Bestseller list and it also gets on the radar for studios to make a movie out of it.
The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare is next up.
For those unfamiliar with The Mortal Instruments, here’s a quick blurb from the Variety article: “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 and other demons.” Collectively, The Mortal Instruments series of books have spent 28 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers List.
Of course this is not the first time a book has been made into a movie, but ever since Harry Potter and Twilight after that, the books that target the young adult and teens are being taken a lot more seriously.
The first three books of Clare’s book series will be the source of the film which is a modern take on a fairy tale world existing in paralell with our own.
It sounds like an interesting concept, and I look forward to seeing what they do with it. Will be interesting to see if the fourth book is enough to justify a sequel since the first three are making up the first planned film.
