This past weekend was a crazy one, and sadly since I was on the road and attending The Teen Book Con festival, I didn't get to do a lot of RTing of Cassie's panel from the LA Times Book Festival. Here's a recap of a few of the things I did RT from @MortalMovie:
, among many authors, gave advice on being involved with .
"I was just wandering around having a great time." - on her time on set
"Everyone in the audience goes 'that's how you pronounce that word!'" - . when talking about steles
Our friends over at Page to Premiere were at the event and were so nice to tweet a ton of what Cassie and Harald talked about. Here's some of what they tweeted:
We are tweeting from the panel at . She says she was nervous about the book becoming a film.
. said there was concern about the main character being a girl when trying to sell it to the studios. I was pre Twilight & THG.
. thinks the book is very cool story. He read the script befor he read the book. he read the book he thought it was supercool.
When Harald went in for meetings he wanted to bring a lot of the book back to the script.
Harald says that when Clary is first walking around the Institute it's eye opening for the audience and Clary.
. said the Institute was her favorite set and that she spent a lot of time walking around the set taking it all in.
Lily Collins was already cast when Harald came on board and Jamie Campbell Bower was in discussions. He flew to London to meet him
Harald had to really get educated on Simon from to understand him and cast him.
. said Simon was tough to cast because he has to go through so much.
Harald was looking at footage of someone else for Luke and Aidan Turner happened to be it and he caught Harald's attention.
There's a flashback scene with Luke when Aidan Turner looks particularly hot according to . he's always hot.
Lily Collins was the only casting wasn't involved in. Cassie found out about her casting on Collider.
Suzanne Collin's told "oh honey, no one wants to see you; they want to see your adorable cast."
Harald went back to look at The Exorcist for ideas regarding demons. He mentioned Dorthea specifically.
. "don't touch the mortal cup."
They just showed the most recent and the response was awesome.
They decided to keep Alec and Magnus relationship the same as in the first book.
We will get to see Magnus heal Alec in the movie.
There is the benefit of hindsight when filming the movie to put some hints about the future books into City of Bones on screen.
Magnus's party set was gorgeous according to .
. was almost an extra on the subway, but she got kicked off by the producer so they could save her for Magnus's.
The extras were confused as to why the director kept coming over to talk to during the party shoot
They are still working on the film soundtrack. No answers yet.
Here are and Harald Zwart on stage
. imagined the Shadowhunters sounding "a little different, a little removed, a little more formal."
Simon and Isabelle will have "moments" in the movie to set up the series. -
Did you attend Cassie and Harald's panel? We'd love to hear your thoughts from their Q&A.
Did you attend Cassie and Harald's panel? We'd love to hear your thoughts from their Q&A.
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