WonderCon: Cassandra Clare discusses why guys will love THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS

One of the things that sets The Mortal Instruments apart from some other Young Adult series is its mass appeal when it comes to varying ages and sexes. In a new interview with Comic Book Resources at WonderCon, Cassandra Clare talked about why The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones will appeal to not just women, but men, as well.

“I have a lot of boy readers and they love it because there’s a ton of action,” she said. “There’s a lot of people’s heads getting chopped off, there’s a lot of monsters. It is really gritty and dark. One of the fantastic things about the young-adult category is that it blends millions of different genres.Twilight is romance to me. The Hunger Games is a dystopian science fiction. This is classic urban fantasy. It’s really a different thing.” That means people shouldn’t expect the romance between Lily Collins’ character Clary Fray and Jamie Campbell Bower’s Jace Wayland to be the main focus of the film. “The love story is romantic, it’s there, it’s the B plot, but the A plot is about this girl discovering who she is and becoming involved in this magic world and this story of demons and monsters and protecting the world from these sinister forces,” Clare said. “I’m excited about it.”

Cassie raved about the creatures in the film:

“It’s certainly very different from Twilight. The vampires are monsters. They’re dangerous, dangerous monsters,” she said. “There’s demons who are completely evil and floating around the middle is this race that they call the Downworlders that are warlocks, fairies, vampires, werewolves. What I like about them is they’re incredibly ambiguous figures. They can do good, they can do evil. They have their own free will.

“The Silent Brothers are the sort of creepy monks of the Shadowhunter world. Their eyes are sewn shut, their lips are sewn shut, so they were on set and they had the prosthetic makeup,” she recalled. “We had to break for lunch and there they all are and their lips are sewn shut so they’re drinking out of juice boxes that are stuck in the side of their mouths and I’m like, this is so funny. I’m never going to forget it.”

Cassie said the thought of sequels is exciting:

“It’s a big sprawly world. It’s got a lot of stuff in it. If this one does well, yes, [more films] until the dawn of time, which would be great and exciting,” Clare said. “It’s fun because there’s just so much there so being able to be involved in the production meant that I could kind of tell them stuff that was going to happen in upcoming books and stuff that was behind the scenes of the first book, so there are little nods no the fans about things that are going to happen later, which is great.”

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