Following the failed YA adaptations of Beautiful Creatures and most recently, The Host, Hollywood will try yet again to pull in the audience of another novel in the genre this summer with The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. Based on Cassandra Clare‘s work, we’ve now got a new trailer for film directed by Harald Zwart (The Karate Kid remake).
Featuring the often-used Sunshine score from John Murphy and Radiohead‘s All I Need (perhaps they were attempting to pull in those that loved the use of 15 Steps in Twilight‘s end credits), some of the production and character design looks a bit cheesy, but overall, it’s more enticing than other films of its ilk. Check out the trailer below (and the full music tracks from it) for the film starring Lily Collins, Jaime Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan, Jemima West, Kevin Segers, Kevin Durand, Robert Maillet, Lena Headey, Jared Harris, Godfrey Gao, Aidan Turner, CCH Pounder and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
Synopsis:
In the series’ first book, the #1 New York Times bestseller “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones,” set in contemporary New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray, discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother, Clary must join forces with a group of Shadowhunters, who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York called Downworld, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures.
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones arrives on August 23rd, 2013.