There's such a thing as failing upwards. It happens in business all of the time, and sometimes it happens in Hollywood. A franchise that maybe didn't perform so well on the big screen could find success elsewhere, and that's what may happen with YA flop The Mortal Instruments.
Last fall we learned that Cassandra Clare's novels could be turned into a TV series, and now THR reports ABC Family has given it a straight-to-series order. ABC Family? Makes sense in a way as Clare's story follows a young girl (played by Lily Collins in the film but surely will be recast) who discovers on her 18th birthday that she comes from a long family line of Shadowhunters, human-angel hybrids that battle demons. The 13-episode series will be titled Shadowhunters and has Ed Decter (The Client List) as its showrunner.
Surely the series will be turned into something like The Vampire Diaries, which is probably how it always should have been. [THR]
