Next Young Adult Franchise? Fantasy 'Mortal Instruments' Adds 'Game of Thrones' Badass Lena Headey to Cast

“The Mortal Instruments” is a series of six young adult fantasy books written by Cassandra Clare and published by Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry Books. In the series’ first book, the #1 New York Times bestseller “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones”, set in contemporary New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray, discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother, Clary must join forces with a group of Shadowhunters, who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York called Downworld, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures.
 
New Cast Additions:
·       Lena Headey as “Jocelyn Fray” (300, DREDD, Game of Thrones,)
·       Jared Harris as “Hodge Starkweather” (SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS, Mad Men)
·       Godfrey Gao as “Magnus Bane” (ALL ABOUT WOMEN)
Previously Confirmed Cast:
·       Lily Collins as “Clary Fray” (MIRROR MIRROR, PRIEST, THE BLIND SIDE)
·       Jamie Campbell Bower as “Jace Wayland” (THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN, HARRY
      POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HOLLOWS, Camelot)
·       Robert Sheehan as “Simon Lewis” (KILLING BONO, SEASON OF THE WITCH, Misfits)
·       Jemima West as “Isabelle Lightwood” (Maison Close, The Borgias)
·       Kevin Durand as “Emil Pangborn” (RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION, I AM NUMBER FOUR, Lost)
·       Robert Maillet as “Samuel Blackwell” (SHERLOCK  HOLMES, IMMORTALS, 300)