Warner Bros. goes for BEAUTIFUL CREATURES
Summit may have the corner on the vampire market, but Warner Bros. is all about the teen witches. Warner’s tentpole franchise, HARRY POTTER, will end in 2011, so it looks as if the studio already launched their own witch hunt to fill the hole left by the end of the hijinks at Hogwarts.
Warner Bros. has just acquired “Beautiful Creatures,” the inaugural novel in a planned five-book series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. The young adult novel was released just today, and it’s already number 68 on Amazon’s bestselling book chart. If that doesn’t strike you as a film adaptation fast track, get ready for this – Warner has already picked their screenwriter and director for the film. It’s Richard LaGravanese, who last directed P.S. I LOVE YOU and scripted the second film in the CHRONICLES OF NARNIA series (THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER) and the film adaptation of the book “Water for Elephants.” Suffice to say, LaGravanese is familiar with the page-to-screen work an adaptation requires.
“Beautiful Creatures” focuses on Big Man on Campus (BMOC) Ethan Wate “who hates living in a small in South Carolina where nothing happens – until he meets and becomes bewitched by Lena Duchanne, a 16-year old whose family has moved back to town and who wishes for a mundane life. The star-crossed couple has to confront an age old curse that has haunted her family for generations, as she comes to grips with her powers.” Bewitching, indeed.
To get a feel for the tone we can probably expect of BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, hit the jump to see the book’s trailer (still a practice that confounds me).
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