The Mortal Instruments: City of Glass

The Mortal Instruments: City of Glass is an Urban Fantasy film released in 2015 based on the 2009 novel by Cassandra Clare. It was a box office success and the second installment of The Shadowhunters Chronicles film series. It received mixed to positive reviews from critics and was the sixth highest grossing film of 2015.

Plot
The New York based Shadowhunters decide to return to Idris as Madeleine Bellefleur claims a magician named Fell can awaken Jocelyn, Clary's mother. Unfortunately, the team is attacked by The Circle attack with an army of brainwashed mundanes called Forsaken. Madeleine Bellefleur is killed during the attack and the team is forced to split up and use separate portals to travel to Alicante the City of Glass the only city in Idris. Upon entering the city Simon is arrested and accused of being a spy working for The Circle. In Alicante, Clary meets a Shadowhunter named Sebastian and discovers the Fell was killed by Valentine. Magnus Bane claims he can save Jocelyn but will need a spell book owned by Valentine.

Clary and Jace break into Valentine's secret lair and steal the book known as the Book of the White. They free a dying angel named Ithuriel who was held captive by Valentine who give Clary a vision of a new rune. Jace allows Ithuriel to kill himself with his blade putting him out of his misery on Earth. When Jace and Clary return to Idris, they discover an army of demons attacking the Glass City. The Shadowhunters are left to ally with downworlders to survive. The rune Ithuriel taught Clary will allow Shadowhunters and Downworlders to share powers with each other. Clary and Jace free Simon and Magnus Bane awakens Jocelyne who reveals that Jace is not really Clary's son but she does have a brother. Hodge Starkweather, another prisoner for allying with Valentine exposes Valentine's plans for the Mortal Instruments. He claims that Lake Lyn is the Mortal Mirror the last of the artifacts. Sebastian attacks and kills Hodge before escaping, Jocelyne says that he is Clary's real brother.

Cast

 * Lily Collins as Clary
 * Jamie Campbell Bower as Jace
 * Robert Sheehan as Simon
 * Kevin Zegers as Alec
 * Lena Headey as Jocelyn
 * Kevin Durand as Pangborn
 * Aidan Turner as Luke
 * Mila Kunis as Amatis Graymark
 * Jemima West as Isabelle
 * Godfrey Gao as Magnus Bane
 * C. C. H. Pounder as Dorothea
 * Jared Harris as Hodge
 * Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Valentine
 * Ash Santos as Maia Roberts
 * Robin Wright as Madeleine Bellefleur
 * Andrew Garfield as Sebastian Morgenstern

Sequels
The franchise received many more prequels, spin-offs and sequels with a second trilogy starting in 2016 with the 4th and 5th films being filmed back to back.