City of Bones MOVIE casting UPDATE
JACE WAYLAND has been cast! :D Ok, so it isn't Alex Pettyfer, although he was in the running for a long time. But having JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER play the gorgeous, snarky, broody, Shadowhunter isn't as bad as I once thought. In fact, watching him in Camelot is giving me the chance to warm up to his acting skills (because, lets face it, playing Caius in Twilight didn't really really scream 'tormented teenager' to me). I'm looking forward to the first official "in-character" promotional pictures of Jamie and Lily (Colins) as Jace and Clary...but I expect we're a long way from that still. Up next, casting Simon, Isabel, Alec, Hodge, Valentine, Luke and Jocelyn.
To be fair, Screen Gems did post this picture, just to pacify the crowds who were rioting after losing Alex P, although I'm strongly hoping they'll axe that little scruffy beard Jamie has going on (a photo-manip from a Camelot promo shot, I assume) when he starts filming City of Bones. I do like that they showed his eyes can be altered to match Jace's with gold contacts though, and that Cassandra Clare has said that his hair will be a little shorter and also that he'll be training to 'bulk up' a bit to match Jace's athletic Shadowhunter physique. :) Also, here's a pic with Jamie and Lily side by side so that we can get an idea of our two upcoming leads. ;)
I wish I could see his audition tape though. According to Cassandra Clare, she started crying when she saw it, because he "was [my] Jace".
P.S. Jamie is British and I'm curious as to whether he'll be using a British or American accent to play Jace in the films. I always imagined Jace as American, since he's spent most of his life in New York, but there's a brief alluding to his father (?) being British as well as Jace's having grown up in Idris, so he might have an"Idrisian" accent. I think I could get used to it either way, but my initial feeling is American accent. Guess I'll have to wait and see like everyone else. ;)
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To be fair, Screen Gems did post this picture, just to pacify the crowds who were rioting after losing Alex P, although I'm strongly hoping they'll axe that little scruffy beard Jamie has going on (a photo-manip from a Camelot promo shot, I assume) when he starts filming City of Bones. I do like that they showed his eyes can be altered to match Jace's with gold contacts though, and that Cassandra Clare has said that his hair will be a little shorter and also that he'll be training to 'bulk up' a bit to match Jace's athletic Shadowhunter physique. :) Also, here's a pic with Jamie and Lily side by side so that we can get an idea of our two upcoming leads. ;)
I wish I could see his audition tape though. According to Cassandra Clare, she started crying when she saw it, because he "was [my] Jace".
P.S. Jamie is British and I'm curious as to whether he'll be using a British or American accent to play Jace in the films. I always imagined Jace as American, since he's spent most of his life in New York, but there's a brief alluding to his father (?) being British as well as Jace's having grown up in Idris, so he might have an"Idrisian" accent. I think I could get used to it either way, but my initial feeling is American accent. Guess I'll have to wait and see like everyone else. ;)
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