New York Times bestselling fantasy young adult novel Beautiful Creatures will soon hit the screen early next year starring 19-year old Australian actress Alice Englert and Stoker star Alden Ehrenreich. With the novel originally written by authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures, the film rights was bought by Alcon Entertainment in 2009. The film was directed by American screenwriter and occasional film director Richard LaGravenese, who was popularly known as the writer of Fisher King.
Early in 2012, it was announced that Jack O' Connell and Alice Englert were announced to play the lead characters of Lena Duchannes and Ethan Wate. But not long after, O' Connell dropped the role and Alden Ehrenreich was picked for the role of Ethan Wate instead. Other casts include Emmy Rossum as Ridley Duchannes, Viola Davis as Amma, Emma Thompson playing dual roles as Sarafine and Mrs. Lincoln and Jeremy Irons as Macon Ravenwood. Stars Thomas Mann, Kyle Gallner, Zoey Deutch, Tiffany Boone, Margo Matindale, Andrea Frankle, Camille Balsamo, J.D. Evermore, Lance Nichols and Leslie Castay are part of the casts.
Filming for the said film started in May 2012 in New Orleans and ended in late July. According to Director LaGravenese, he "chose to incorporate real special effects and computer-based ones for certain scenes."
Filming for the said film started in May 2012 in New Orleans and ended in late July. According to Director LaGravenese, he "chose to incorporate real special effects and computer-based ones for certain scenes."
Beautiful Creatures is the first book in The Casters Chronicles. It is narrated by the male protagonist Ethan Wate and set in fictional Gatlin, South Carolina. Ethan is a sophomore high-school student who lives with his father together with their housekeeper Amma, who became dear to Ethan and became like his grandmother. The story began on the first day of his sophomore year when Ethan met the girl in his recurring dreams, Lena Duchannes, who he will later discover to be a Caster, someone who can use magic. The conflict arises when Lena must be claimed for either Light or Dark on her sixteenth birthday, and the only one who save her is no other than Ethan. Will their love be enough to defeat the odds and the unknown magic much powerful than both of them?
Here's Beautiful Creatures' official trailer that was released on September 29, 2012.
"There were no surprises in Gatlin County. We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere. At least, that's what I thought. Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong. There was a curse. There was a girl. And in the end, there was a grave." - Ethan, excerpt from Beautiful Creatures
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