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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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ashenmote
2013-08-31 10:08 am UTC (link)

Well, there were other plagiarists around back then, but I don't remember anything about them now, and I bet I would be in team "Yeah, but that was twelve years ago" for most of them if I found out now.

When I still remember CC it's because of the way she harassed her accusers. And because you couldn't talk about it anywhere without her ridiculous lawyer buddy and their legion of fanpoodles descending on the threads. And the whole cleaning up the evidence thing. And well, see Bad Penny for everything else.

That's what put CC in the "Yeah, that was twelve years ago. I remember it well. What an asshole. I hope she has a horrible life" territory, for me.

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	iczer6 2013-08-31 10:13 am UTC (link)
	I think that's a big part of it. That maybe it wasn't so much the plagiarism as it was the lengths she went to justify, ignore, and hide the it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cinnamonical
2013-08-31 11:51 pm UTC (link)

Agreed. I wouldn't be side-eyeing her original work and the trajectory of her writing career so much if, back in the day, she had properly owned up to the plagiarism and then proceeded to never do it (and the related cyberbullying) again. I might still be like "wow, this is so derivative" when reading her books, but I wouldn't be as inclined to want to tell people to stay away from her completely.

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	iczer6 2013-09-01 12:08 am UTC (link)
	Yeah. I can't help but think so much drama could've been avoided if she just said 'I'm sorry. I really liked the author's work and wanted to include it in my fic. I didn't realize I was taking so much'. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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