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fandom: mortal instruments, person: cassie clare, reviews

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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	Re: The more things change... ekaterinv 2013-08-30 04:44 am UTC (link)
	Wait, CC and Heidi had a falling out? I tried reading the reviews for information, but too many of them talked about how great Twilight was and/or how horrible it was for a YA book to contain sex and violence, and I reached my limit before being able to slog very far. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: The more things change...

vorpal_blade
2013-08-30 06:57 am UTC (link)

I don't know about Heidi and CC, but if Heidi isn't thanked in the book, as the other poster said, after all she did for CC, that does sound like a red flag. Guess Holly Black is her BFF now.

Horrors, a YA book with sex and violence!?!?! Um, isn't that pretty much a requirement for getting a YA book published these days? Good writing certainly isn't necessary, or CC (and Meyer, and a lot of other people) would never have gotten a book contract. If you have something an agent and publisher thinks will sell big, you'll get published. And sex and violence sells.

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	Re: The more things change... ekaterinv 2013-08-30 07:01 am UTC (link)
	The "sex" thing seems to be almost entirely about the fact that there's a gay guy in the book. Though the incest thing came up a few times too. But I wanted to smack everyone who was having fits over GIRLS being exposed to SEXUAL THOUGHTS when they shouldn't be thinking those things oh noes! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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