‘Helix’ showrunner Ed Decter will develop Cassandra Clare’s YA fantasy franchise for the small screen
We love the books, and couldn’t wait for Cassandra Clare’s first book to come to the big screen, but the movie failed miserably at the box office and our hopes of seeing Jace and Clary on the big screen in any sequels fell to the wastelands, or did it.
Today we found out that, 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 has hired Ed Decter, whose writer-producer credits include Helix, Unforgettable, In Plain Sight and The Client List, as the showrunner for the Mortal Instruments series. The project is currently in development, with Constantin planning to begin production next year. No broadcast partners are yet attached to the series.
Constantin had originally planned to turn Clare’s fantasy series into a feature film franchise but shelved that idea after the firstMortal 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.”
We have no idea of who may be cast or even what network would be broadcasting the show. Are you excited and who would you like to see cast in our lead roles? Let us know by commenting below.
