The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (trailer)

Tue, Feb 12, 2013

The quest to recapture that Harry Potter magic continues. Or maybe it’s about recapturing that Twilight magic. (Cuz hey: Invisible boyfriend!)

Whatever they’re trying to do, I’ll venture to guess that calling it The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones isn’t the best way to go about it. It doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue. (Yes, I know it’s based on a book. That’s not the point. Titles can change. Awkward titles can not be chosen in the first place.)

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Gayle

Tue, Feb 12, 2013 12:49pm

Looks like it could go either way really. Though I’ll probably be terribly shallow and just go for Aiden Turner who will hopefully be playing a baddie and therefore be less insipid than that rabbity faced fellow playing the lead always is.

Drave

Tue, Feb 12, 2013 4:46pm

I bought the book but I haven’t read it yet. I’m taking it as a good sign that the book’s author was fangirling over the trailer when it first came out!

RogerBW

Wed, Feb 13, 2013 12:19pm

Points for a female protagonist, and more points for allowing her to have real eyebrows rather than those plucked monstrosities that most actresses are forced to wear, and even more points for the flamethrower. But I note that everyone explaining stuff in this trailer is male…

Kat105

Tue, Feb 19, 2013 4:39pm

The books are terrible, so I’m approaching this in the same way that I approached the first “Twilight” film: with morbid curiosity about what they will *change* from the source material. Hopefully, the love interest will actually be a good and decent person, the protagonist will not be useless, and the villain will actually be complex and threatening. But since this is a Hollywood adaptation of a YA novel, I’m not getting my hopes up.

teenygozer

Sun, Feb 24, 2013 8:17am

Do they really call “someone from the human world” a mundane in these books? Because that’s what Star Treks fans who attend conventions have called people who aren’t Star Trek fans since about the mid-70s. I wonder if the author got the idea from her youth as a Trekkie. ;)