Shadowhunters moves from Movie Series to TV Series
If you don't know about The Mortal Instruments book series, here's a quick rundown for you. The story is about a young girl named Clary who learns that she is a member of the Shadowhunters, a race of people, descended from angels to battle demons. The Mortal Instruments is a book series comprised of six books (really two trilogies) following Clary and her friends.
The potentially cool thing about this series though is that it is one of potentially five different series that all together will make up The Shadowhunter Chronicles. The author, Cassandra Claire, has written a series titled The Infernal Devices that is a prequel series to The Mortal Instruments and features the ancestors of some of the characters in the Mortal Instruments series. If all goes as planned, there will be a total of five different series making up the Shadowhunter Chronicles with The Infernal Devices being the earliest, A proposed trilogy titled The Last Hours being a sequel to that, Then the already written six books in The Mortal Instruments series, and then a trilogy currently being written titled The Dark Artifices and a proposed sequel trilogy to that titled The Wicked Powers that's meant to conclude The Shadowhunter Chronicles. For those keeping track at home, that a planned eighteen books to tell the entire saga, not including any side stories or companion books that might be written as well (it should be noted that several novellas have already been released about a few side characters in the stories.) I haven't read any of the books yet, but I probably will because I'm a sucker for overly long convoluted series that take up way too many books.
Anyway, (we'll get to why this series in in the news in a second) in the wake of the Harry Potter/Twilight/Hunger Games era of "get every YA property to the big screen for all of the money" The Mortal Instruments had an adaptation of the first book released in August of 2013. It did not go so well. While the studio was optimistic enough to start work on a sequel before the first movie was even released, once the numbers for the movie began, those plans quickly disappeared.
Only now it looks like The Mortal Instruments franchise is getting a second chance on the smaller screen. There had been rumors for a while now that the series might be adapted into a television show, but those plans took a major step forward when it was announced that McG would be directing the pilot episode of the new show, titled Shadowhunters for ABC family. The show will focus on the characters introduced in the six Mortal Instruments books though likely with a few adjustments here and there to help adapt the show to television. The other series that take place in different time periods probably won't be mentioned unless the initial show is successful enough that talk of spinoffs begins.
An air date for the show has not yet been announced but shooting is scheduled to begin it Toronto in May. The TV format may work better for this type of book series that can easily mold itself into the demon of the week format (with an occasional vampire or werewolf thrown in there for good measure.) Nothing is for certain, but I would venture a guess that with the type of show we're looking at ABC Family is going to be looking at an October release should they decide to move forward with the series.
The potentially cool thing about this series though is that it is one of potentially five different series that all together will make up The Shadowhunter Chronicles. The author, Cassandra Claire, has written a series titled The Infernal Devices that is a prequel series to The Mortal Instruments and features the ancestors of some of the characters in the Mortal Instruments series. If all goes as planned, there will be a total of five different series making up the Shadowhunter Chronicles with The Infernal Devices being the earliest, A proposed trilogy titled The Last Hours being a sequel to that, Then the already written six books in The Mortal Instruments series, and then a trilogy currently being written titled The Dark Artifices and a proposed sequel trilogy to that titled The Wicked Powers that's meant to conclude The Shadowhunter Chronicles. For those keeping track at home, that a planned eighteen books to tell the entire saga, not including any side stories or companion books that might be written as well (it should be noted that several novellas have already been released about a few side characters in the stories.) I haven't read any of the books yet, but I probably will because I'm a sucker for overly long convoluted series that take up way too many books.
Anyway, (we'll get to why this series in in the news in a second) in the wake of the Harry Potter/Twilight/Hunger Games era of "get every YA property to the big screen for all of the money" The Mortal Instruments had an adaptation of the first book released in August of 2013. It did not go so well. While the studio was optimistic enough to start work on a sequel before the first movie was even released, once the numbers for the movie began, those plans quickly disappeared.
Only now it looks like The Mortal Instruments franchise is getting a second chance on the smaller screen. There had been rumors for a while now that the series might be adapted into a television show, but those plans took a major step forward when it was announced that McG would be directing the pilot episode of the new show, titled Shadowhunters for ABC family. The show will focus on the characters introduced in the six Mortal Instruments books though likely with a few adjustments here and there to help adapt the show to television. The other series that take place in different time periods probably won't be mentioned unless the initial show is successful enough that talk of spinoffs begins. An air date for the show has not yet been announced but shooting is scheduled to begin it Toronto in May. The TV format may work better for this type of book series that can easily mold itself into the demon of the week format (with an occasional vampire or werewolf thrown in there for good measure.) Nothing is for certain, but I would venture a guess that with the type of show we're looking at ABC Family is going to be looking at an October release should they decide to move forward with the series.
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