admin On novembre - 13 - 2012

A supernatural love story set in the South, “Beautiful Creatures” tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers: Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich), a young man longing to escape his small town, and Lena (Alice Englert), a mysterious new girl.

Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history and their town.
Oscar nominee Richard LaGravenese (“The Fisher King,””P.S. I Love You”) directs from his adaptation of the first novel in the best-selling series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.

The film stars Alden Ehrenreich (“Tetro”), newcomer Alice Englert, Academy Award(R) winner Jeremy Irons (“Reversal of Fortune”) Oscar(R) nominee Viola Davis (“The Help,” “Doubt”), Emmy Rossum (TV’s “Shameless”) and Academy Award(R) winner Emma Thompson (“Howard’s End,” “Sense and Sensibility”).

We met writers Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohi, authors if the books the movie is based on, for a short interview:
We choose the set after a long talk with Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis and Emma Thompson, and with Director Richard Lagravenese too. We’veen on the set for an entire week, and it’s been a great experience, like all the artistic cast had seen in our minds. See them acting world we wrote has been amazing!
The book is set in North Carolina. The Director took our book so seriously we could not have think on another direction.
On our first date he took his notebook to write down our ideas and then he worked
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Magic world is not so easy to be set on cinema, actually, and adolescent world too. We didn’t want a movie hardly based in our book’s 600 pages, and let him free ti adapt as best as he could!
He captured the main feelings and aims of the book and made it an amazing cinema-project.
We’re extremely satisfied by his work, even if not every page or role is the same as in our book.

Actors have been selected by our producers, director and casting director. The teen actors are so naturally closer to the original characters, and some of them didn’ want to be in a teen-fantasy movie, but after reading the original script they came back asking to join the project!
All the actors are amazing because Richard’s script is!
It’s a story about a boy who finds out a supernatural girl and fall in love with her during the Civil War. It’s a south-gothic-novel with supernatural elements and love.
On her 16th birthday Lena will know what kind of supernatural being she’ll be: a good or a bad one.

The provincial culture is another important theme in our books, because in little cities of the South all the people know each other and seens not to have secrets, at first sight. We think that’s amazing how a little city or a country can have the same bases and popular cultures.

Harry Potter, Twilight are all saga like our, but we are very much in the middle: we have romance and supernatural like Twilight, but Harry Potter our novel is full of magic elements and adult world too. We hope adult actors will make the movie enjoable also for the adult public!
Hunger Games? We wrote Beautiful Creatures in 2008 and at that time there were no power girls like our. This has been a problem because the two of us had adolescents daughters and sisters and they all wanted to read something about powerful girls. We love Mortal Instruments and Hunger Games main protagonists!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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