"Movies aren't really happening until they're actually filming," the author says of the initial prospects of "Mortal Instruments" actually being made into a film."
My grandfather was a movie producer. I grew up in the film industry," she explained. "I always knew movies aren't really happening until they're actually filming, and I thought this will never really happen. And then when they got [director] Harald [Zwart] on board, I really started to
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| Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower in Philadelphia |
Because the mall tour went so fantastically well Sony decided to add a last stop — in L.A.! (We’ll all be there anyway for the press junket and premiere, so it was really the only place it could be done!) It’ll be me, Jamie, Lily, Kevin, and Harald the director — the only stop he’ll be on — so I hope to see you there! Details below:
In case you haven't heard, The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones is set to be one of the biggest movie events of the year and to celebrate it's upcoming release, we're looking for fans to record a question on Skype for Lily Collins, Robert Sheehan and Jamie Campbell Bower[...]Here's a message from Jamie Campbell Bower:
If you want to get involved in the Skype video chat (and let's face it, why wouldn't you?) all you have to do is tweet your question to us @msnents using the hashtag #AskTMI. We're looking for the most imaginative, creative and brilliant questions so get your thinking caps on people!
You'll have to follow us on Twitter and tweet us your question before 9pm on Sunday 11 August, so spread the word!
with CITY OF BONES RED CARPET in the subject line and answer the following question:For details and contest rules, visit Dorkshelf.com.
Name any two stars of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones and something else that each of them have been in
Motley Crüe Miami. @MortalMovie t.co/uYHFSRmi4M
— Kevin Zegers (@KevinZegers) August 1, 2013
Can we rename myself, Collins and Zegers the Motley Mortal Crue? Thanks. Love you. X
— Jamie Campbell Bower (@Jamiebower) August 1, 2013
What was the most interesting part about being trained to be Shadow Hunters?Lily: Well I figure out in the beginning of the movie what are Shadow Hunters, so my skill level isn't as up to par with these guys. I got to learn how to knife fight, which was really fun, I had done sword fighting before in other movies, so switching the blades up was pretty interesting, and in heels, the whole deal, was pretty fun.Read the rest of the interview over at Hit Zone.
Jamie: I worked quite closely with Jean Frenette, the stunt coordinator on the movie, and I was able to go out there a month before we started shooting, and it was great to be able to work with the stunt team to work to hone my skills a little bit and put down a style of fighting, like really have a specific style of fighting that Jay's had. So that was really interesting and exciting for me.
Kevin: Yeah I would agree with what Jamie said, I think because, especially Shadow Hunters, the characters are so defined by fighting and by the way they fight. I really wanted to establish what, a lot of what these characters are is the way they look, the way they are, the way they walk, the way they fight, especially. So it was important to not just have some generic style of fighting. I mean Jean Frenette is incredible anyway with setting things up but, it was very tailored to, Jamie who's very tall, very lean, and sort of the way he moves around, it's very much different than the way I move around. So I think he tailored the way that we fight to our own kind of physical makeup. And then we had Nuno [Capitao de Salles], who's our physical trainer to get us into shape-shape. So it was very much tailored to creating these characters that when you see from afar, because most of the time we're fighting together and there are scenes where you see Jamie and I fighting together with Jemima and Lily and you can tell, even in the wide-shots, who's who by the way that we're moving around, so it was great. And it felt very, it was sort of like "learn this and do it this way otherwise it's wrong". It was sort of like "well you do this thing well, so we'll throw a little bit more of that stuff in there". So it felt more like a team effort than it did, "just figure out how to do these 25, or 150 moves and then just do it the way that the stunt guy does it or we're screwed". It was more "Jamie can do all 150 and then we'll just shoot it with Jamie". And that's what we ended up doing.
It will have its Canadian premiere — with some of the stars walking the red carpet — on Aug. 15 at the Scotiabank Theatre on Richmond Street West.This makes two Canadian premieres: one in Montreal (August 19) and Toronto
