Emma Thomspon to be One of the Beautiful Creatures

Steve Barton   |  

Feb 10, 2012

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More possible casting news coming in for Richard LaGravenese’s upcoming flick Beautiful Creatures. Has another witch been found? Read on for the skinny!

According to Deadline, two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson is in final negotiations to star in supernatural love story Beautiful Creatures. Directed by LaGravenese (P.S. I Love You) from his own adaptation of the New York Times best selling novel of the same name, Thompson will join current Oscar nominee Viola Davis as well as newcomers Jack O’Connell and Alice Englert.

If signed, Thompson will play the dual role of Mrs. Lincoln, a small town religious zealot, and Sarafine, the dark witch who possesses her. Erwin Stoff (I Am Legend) will produce along with Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove (The Book of Eli) and Molly Smith (P.S. I Love You). Alcon, which has film rights to all three books in the series published by Little Brown Books, is looking at Creatures to launch a possible franchise at Warner Bros. Filming will begin in April in and around New Orleans.

Look for more on this one throughout the year.

Synopsis
Ethan Wate, a popular high school student, hates living in a small town 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.

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