Jack O’Connell And Alice Englert Join Viola Davis In BEAUTIFUL CREATURES

Deadline said Jack O’Connell (This Is England) and Alice Englert (Singularity) will act alongside Oscar nominee Viola Davis in the adaptation of BEAUTIFUL CREATURES..

BEAUTIFUL CREATURES

Directed by Richard LaGravenese, based on the book by Margaret Stohl-Kami Garcia, about two teens confronting a curse that has haunted the girl’s family for generations.
The sequel books in the trilogy are BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS and BEAUTIFUL CHAOS.
Production on BEAUTIFUL CREATURES starts in April in New Orleans
Viola Davis plays a librarian/friend of the teenage boy’s deceased mother who loves him like a son
Alcon wants this project to be the start of a potential franchise

Here’s the book‘s official synopsis..

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.

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.

Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town’s oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.