Camelot's Jamie Campbell Bower cast in THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS
Screen Gems have cast Camelot star Jamie Campbell Bower as the lead role in their upcoming supernatural action film The Mortal Instruments. Bower also had a big role in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd. The film is based on the book series by Cassandra Clare, and is being directed by Scott Charles Stewart (Priest, Legion). I'm not the biggest fan of this director because both Priest and Legion were very mediocre films, unfortunately I didn't really enjoy either one of them. But, this movie seems like it falls right in line with the type of films he makes.
Bower will join Lily Collins (Abduction, Priest, The Blind Side) who will play Clary Fray, the central heroine to the series. Clary starts out as your average girl until she realizes she has The Sight. She can see demons and Shadowhunters alike, which turns her on to all sorts of trouble and one gorgeous (if not sarcastic) hunter called Jace who Bower will be playing.
Here's the full description of the first book in the series, City of Bones.
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder—much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing—not even a smear of blood—to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?
This is Clary’s first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It’s also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace’s world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know. . . .
Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare’s ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end.