BEAUTIFUL CREATURES MOVIE

(Vampires and werewolves? Is that all you got?) But since any Mortal visiting this world might find all of this a little confusing, we enlisted the help of the books’ co-authors, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, and the webmasters for the official fansite, Caster Girls, to break it down.Įthan Wate (played in the movie by Alden Ehrenreich) is a teenager whose mother has recently died and whose father has become a recluse. By comparison, the Twilight mythology looks pretty thin. It’s a southern Gothic tale, replete with Civil War reenactments, voodoo, demons, and a curse that has lasted for centuries. The series is told from the point of view of a male Mortal who falls for the new girl in his sleepy South Carolina town and learns the truth behind her mysterious, dangerous abilities. You might call the characters witches, but they call themselves “Casters,” as in Spell Casters. If the central metaphor of the Twilight books was abstinence, the Caster Chronicles are about self-empowerment, and that power is (mostly) female. Pictures release.Īny supernatural romance with star-crossed lovers spawned from a young-adult franchise is bound to be blessed (or cursed) as “the next Twilight.” But in the case of Beautiful Creatures (the first of the Caster Chronicles series to be adapted to film), we are going to dispel that notion right away. (L-r) EILEEN ATKINS as Gramma, ALICE ENGLERT as Lena Duchannes and JEREMY IRONS as Macon Ravenwood in Alcon Entertainment’s supernatural love story “BEAUTIFUL CREATURES,” a Warner Bros.

Beautiful creatures