Alcon Entertainment reports that actors Jack O’Connell ("This Is England") and Alice Englert are in final negotiations to star in the romance "Beautiful Creatures", adapting the first of a five-novel supernatural series by authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. The new screenplay will be written by Richard LaGravenese :
"...high-school student 'Ethan Wate' meets and becomes bewitched by 'Lena Duchannes', a teenager whose family has moved to the small South Carolina town where he lives. The two must confront a curse that has haunted her family for generations as she comes to grips with her powers..."
Filming will start April 2012, in and around the New Orleans area.
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