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Cassandra Clare and the Panned Picture
When we last left out heroine she was leafing some thorny mahogany pickle to her partner-in-crime to go to her big movie premiere.

Well the first of the Mortal Instrument movies is out, ladies and gents!

While not doing terribly bad (Sony had nothing to lose apparently), it didn't exactly shine either taking in only $9 million through the weekend and $14 million at the moment.

So Cassie Claire, er, Clare, has had to do a wee bit of backpedaling.
Covered here but the important tweets are at the bottom.

You see, she didn't really have any control over the film and so if it bombs, it's the movie producer's fault. Nope, zero input on the whole dealio.

Will there be a sequel, given the budget versus the income? Will it matter? Who knows. Expect to see the Mortal Instruments t-shirts next month at your local Hot Topic and see Cassie Clare in her next adventure, Dancing With Wool!

(It could be wood again. Or Woof? Woozie? Dancing With Who?)

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sgaana
2013-08-30 01:52 am UTC (link)

As far as I know... Temeraire grew out of her love of Master and Commander, but it wasn't ever previously put online as a fanfic for a "Master and Commander AU with Dragons" that she filed the serial numbers off in order to publish.

50 Shades, also AFAIK, was literally a very-AU of Edward and Bella, that the author did a name search/replace on and a small amount of additional editing perhaps to remove the last traces of Twilight from it.

(Does anyone know/remember if it was actually a fic posted online that she yanked? I had the impression that it was, but I don't remember clearly, not having been in that fandom.)

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	kita0610 2013-08-30 01:55 am UTC (link)
	I'm 99% sure SoG was online, yeah. Thanks for the clarification re NN. I'm not actually of the opinion that filing serial numbers off fanfic is a bad thing, although obviously YMMV. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

sgaana
2013-08-31 06:37 am UTC (link)

Oh, no -- to clarify, by itself, I don't think repurposing a fic (or something with fic-like elements) as original is a bad thing. I don't think it's at all the same thing as plagiarism, either. I think it's all in the execution.

(One of my favorite fantasy writers at the moment is Martha Wells, and several of her books feature characters who are carefully-serial-number-filed-off versions of some of her media favorites about whom she wrote fanfic. Which is a different level of the same sort of thing. It doesn't bother me at all; I think her work is good enough to stand on its own, not least because I appreciated the characters even though I wasn't really that knowledgeable about their sources.)

So yeah, it wouldn't bother me if NN's Temeraire books had started as a fanfic. (I quite enjoyed the first few, but just haven't gotten around to reading more of the series.) I was just wanting to give the factual correction, there, that they didn't develop by quite the same mechanism. I don't even think that Lawrence is specifically meant to be based on Jack Aubrey or anybody from Hornblower or anything. I think she was just a fan of those Age of Sail series, and that got reflected in the flavor of the world.

It's just that, in the case of 50 Shades, everything I've heard of it, and the few excerpts I've read, make it seem like the execution is bad bad bad, with a side of supremely bad, and a chaser of "irresponsible depiction of BDSM that unwitting readers appear to be accepting at face value" uckiness.

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	kita0610 2013-08-31 06:43 am UTC (link)
	I've heard the same about 50S. At first I was like, oh come on, don't tell me women can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality in porn, bc that is crap. But apparently, many of the book's readers indeed cannot. She's depicting an abusive relationship, full stop. And it's being held up as some kind of swoon-worthy D/s arrangement, which makes me sad. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	white_serpent 2013-08-30 02:07 am UTC (link)
	Yes, it's SnowQueensIceDragon's (or some such; we wrote it SQID, which is the only reason I can come close) "Master of the Universe." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sgaana 2013-08-31 06:37 am UTC (link)
	Ah, right! It's all coming back. (How could I forget a name like SQID?) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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