Original text - English - Post-Twilight/Hunger Games,

Post-Twilight/Hunger Games, the clamour for the next megabucks book-based young adult franchise sent Screen Gems running to Cassandra Clare, with dreary results. The scattershot, all-over-the-place energy of the books is replaced with simple blandness, but still those who hadn't read Clare struggled to follow the proceedings. The dialogue, meanwhile, seemed to have been created with a random generator –