TRAILER: First Look at THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is an upcoming 2013 action adventure fantasy film based on the first book of The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare. Directed by Harald Zwart, it stars Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Kevin Zegers, Godfrey Gao, Lena Headey, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Aidan Turner, Robert Sheehan, Kevin Durand and Jared Harris. It is set to be released in theaters on August 21, 2013.

After Clary Fray (Collins), a seemingly ordinary teenager, witnesses a murder at a club, she finds out that her mother, Jocelyn (Headey), was attacked in their home in New York City and kidnapped by a man named Valentine (Rhys Meyers) in his search of the Mortal Cup. She calls on a Shadowhunter named Jace (Campbell Bower) and his fellow Shadowhunters, Alec (Zegers) and Isabelle Lightwood (West), to help her on her quest to rescue her mother and along the way finds out truths about her past and bloodline and becomes the person her mother feared she would become.

Clary learns that her mother was a Shadowhunter, which are half-angel, half-human warriors and that she too has the powers of one and tries to harness her powers in time to save her mother. Using her newfound gifts, Clary finds the Cup that her mother safely hid, only to be betrayed and forced to relinquish it. Still reeling from this setback and racing to save her mother before it's too late, Clary finds herself caught in a battle between forces she barely understands. For additional information, visit: http://www.themortalinstrumentsmovie.com/