There's already been a lot of buzz about this via MTV USA's website as it has already emerged on who will be playing which parts in this new TV series, as well as MTV USA also telling what the first episode to this new series will be called,-in case your wondering this will be called "The Mortal Cup"-.
The last time anyone tried to do anything based on this book series was the ill fated film "The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones" which featured Lily Collins as Clary Fray and Jamie Campbell Bower as Jace Lightwood the Shadowhunter (half angel half human) who slays demons.
*You might want to stop reading now as this next part contains spoilers*
I started reading this series of books as I had seen the movie and wanted to know if the ending to this film was really real or not...if you haven't seen the movie or haven't read the books and don't already know the story then I will fill in the blanks...Clary Frey is a seemingly normal 15 year old that lives with her mother Jocelyn in New York and thinks that her father died before she was born, and she has a best friend Simon who has a pretty big crush on her but she doesn't know, but one night whilst out with Simon on her birthday whilst in a nightclub called Pandamonium this life comes crashing down. She witnesses an attack in a nightclub storeroom where a handsome bluehaired boy is 'killed' and a gorgeous black haired girl sneak off to and she tells Simon to go fetch help, but nobody sees this so she apologises to the bouncer and they both leave the nightclub, and her mother then gets kidnapped she doesn't know who by but knows she has to find her, this leads her to Jace who she finds out about Shadowhunters and is introduced to other Shadowhunters Alec,-who has a pretty big crush on Jace- and his sister Isabelle they then tell her about Shadowhunters -half humans half angel-and the reason why she saw them as humans can't usually see them,- big spoiler the only reason she could see them is she must have some Shadowhunter blood in her-, this turns her whole world upside down.
Anyway...whilst at a friend of Simon's from his band Eric's poetry reading she sees Jace and receives a frantic call from her mum telling her to find Luke and to tell him that he has come back, so she and Jace rush through a portal to Luke's bookshop and find him being interrogated by Blackwell and Pagborne two of Valentine's follower's from the Circle,-The Circle was a group of Shadowhunters including Jocelyn, Luke, Valentine, Stephan Herondale, Luke's sister, Stephan's second wife as well as Pagborne and Blackwell, these were very loyal 'friends' of Valentine who did a lot of evil things such as he told his wife Clary's mother that her son Jonathan was dead when he wasn't, made Stephan Herondale give up his first wife and marry another women then he had been giving this second women small doses of demon blood while she was pregnant and as she died he got the child out and he got another one of his followers Hodge to look after him and put him in one of the many Shadowhunter Institutes around the world under the care of The Lightwoods,-this was Jace-, and he then raised his own son Jonathan using the same method in the hope that he would destroy Alicante from the inside and he would become the strongest Shadowhunter, and he also destroyed his wife's family estate whilst her parents were inside, he got an angel trying to make more Shadowhunters by torturing it for its blood ets, the Circle also killed all Shadowhunters and on the same night as this war Jocelyn managed to get away from Valentine with Clary and The Mortal Cup which is also the name of the first episode, and out of spite for this he burned her family estate-.
Moving on, Clary overhears Luke say that he doesn't know where the Mortal Cup is as if he would do you think he would have anything to do with Jocelyn or her brat thus this leaves Clary devastated as she has known Luke her whole life and can't believe he would say such a thing, Clary even though she's devastated asks Jace to help Luke, then Simon, Jace and her go back to the Institute where she is told that she has a block on her mind that allows her from seeing the Shadow World and this leads to Jace getting the Silent Brothers to help remove this block but they can't only the one that put it there can but when they go to a party at Magnus Bane's house (the high warlock of Brooklyn) where they meet a lot of vampire's who have vampire motorbikes parked outside-these aren't supposed to be allowed-, anyway Simon gets turned into a rat and has to saved from the vampires that hold him at the DuMont hotel lead by Rafael and here they find out that Bane can't even lift this as it only worked on her and with time it should go on it's own, but Luke from the other night has been following Clary but as a werewolf, and him and his pack help the shadowhunters fend off the rest of the vampires, then after Simons is made into a human again Clary and Simon hug which seems to upset Jace.
This is when Alec tells Clary to leave the Institute as she shouldn't be the one to encourage Jace to save the whole world.
Clary deduces that The Mortal Cup is in one of Madame Dorothea's,-this is a tarot card reader mystic who lives downstairs from her and her mother,- tarot cards that her mother gave to her as a present and takes Jace with her to retrieve this and as they're there Madame Dorothea is there but has been possessed by a demon so a fight ensues, and then both Clary and Jace return to the Institute where Hodge who has appeared up until now to be a good guy turns bad by giving Valentine the Mortal Cup as well as an unconscious Jace, here Valentine tells both Clary and Jace the lie that they are related so that he gets them to do his bidding.
Clary runs after Hodge who has run from the Institute attacks her but is helped by werewolf Luke and he takes her to his packs garage to see the rest of the pack so they could devize a plan to get Jace back as well as get Valentine, then they realise that Valentine must be hold up at Blackwell Island and there they go to get Jace back but it's also here where Valentine has been keeping Jocelyn in a coma, and here is where Jace says that while he has been here he has heard Valentine say how he misses his life with Jocelyn and he was sorry what he did etc etc.
*It's ok now you can look now!*
I do realise that I might have gone on just a little bit too much about this first book in this sixtology,-not really sure if this is a thing but it should be as this series of books has six in it not really three like a trilogy-, and I do realise that I might have prattled on a bit longer in this summary of this first book way more than a summary should be but I think you really should give these books a whorl if you haven't read them yet...but be ready to take a lot of time put aside so as to read all of these books so you know what's going down in this story.
I have to say though that I agree that this probably works better as a TV series than as just one book as the last film was badly marked as the next Twilight film when I've heard that there are a lot of readers of these books in their 20's onwards.
Anyhew...the cast for this has been set as:
- British born Dominic Sherwood who you may or may not recognise from Taylor Swift's "Style' music video, he will play Jace Wayland/Heronndale.
- Harry Shun Jnr. who you may or may not recognise from "Glee" will play Magnus Bane.
- Alan Van Sprang will play Valentine
- Katherine McNamara will play Clary
- Alberto Rosende will play Simon
- Emeraude Toubia Isabelle Lightwood
- Matthew Daddario will play Alec Lightwood
- Maxim Roy will play Jocelyn
- Isaiah Mustafa will play Luke Garroway
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