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themadscientist ([info]themadscientist) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2013-08-27 21:12:00


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Entry tags: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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[info]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.

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[info]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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[info]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'.

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