Not in a nutshell
5 April 2015 8:30 PM GMT
Naila manal Nothing matches the experience of watching a movie made on your favourite book, right? You either hate it or love it but you will definitely watch it. To be honest, most of the time, we all end up finding flaws in the movie adaptations and the most common complaint is that the movie skimmed over the details. How many of us have watched the Harry Potter films, and hated the absence of Peeves in the film? Or how they almost omitted the story of Voldemort’s family? Winky? Oh, you wanted a detailed TriWizard tournament or Yule ball, bad luck! But what we forget is that the creators of the films had to choose from a huge amount of matter to make a two-three hour film and even splitting the last book into two movies wasn’t enough!
With these thoughts, it was a happy news for me when ABC Family announced that they are going to make a TV series out of the Mortal Instruments book series by Cassandra Clare. The series will be called Shadowhunters, based on the creatures around whom the story revolves, half humans, half angels. The books aren’t amazing, but good enough (the prequel series Infernal Devices were much better, I feel) but the first attempt at making it into a movie fell flat on its face. The movie, Mortal Instruments: City of Bones was well, disappointing to say the least. The characters were half baked,
the plot changed, and the casting wasn’t appealing.
Now that it is being reincarnated into a series one can hope for better, detailed insight in the lives of
Shadowhunters. A TV series is any day more appealing than a film. For something like The Hunger Games or The Divergent books, a movie series would do because of the limited content but as far as the readers are concerned, one would always go for a TV series say for instance in a book like A song of Ice and Fire which was made into the epic drama Game of Thrones. Sherlock, House of Cards are all great examples of how book to TV series adaptation is a brilliant idea! Of course, it will be a treat for sure if somehow someday decide to make a TV Series out of the Harry Potter books. But till then, I will be watching out for Shadowhunters.
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With these thoughts, it was a happy news for me when ABC Family announced that they are going to make a TV series out of the Mortal Instruments book series by Cassandra Clare. The series will be called Shadowhunters, based on the creatures around whom the story revolves, half humans, half angels. The books aren’t amazing, but good enough (the prequel series Infernal Devices were much better, I feel) but the first attempt at making it into a movie fell flat on its face. The movie, Mortal Instruments: City of Bones was well, disappointing to say the least. The characters were half baked,
the plot changed, and the casting wasn’t appealing.
Now that it is being reincarnated into a series one can hope for better, detailed insight in the lives of
Shadowhunters. A TV series is any day more appealing than a film. For something like The Hunger Games or The Divergent books, a movie series would do because of the limited content but as far as the readers are concerned, one would always go for a TV series say for instance in a book like A song of Ice and Fire which was made into the epic drama Game of Thrones. Sherlock, House of Cards are all great examples of how book to TV series adaptation is a brilliant idea! Of course, it will be a treat for sure if somehow someday decide to make a TV Series out of the Harry Potter books. But till then, I will be watching out for Shadowhunters.
Between The Covers is a weekly column on reading up and rating down
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