Jeremy Irons joins “Beautiful Creatures” line-upMarch 14, 2012 - 16:38 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Jeremy Irons is joining Viola Davis and Emma Thompson in Alcon Entertainment's adaptation of the New York Times bestseller "Beautiful Creatures," The Wrap reported. "Beautiful Creatures" is the first of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's supernatural thrillers, and Alcon has film rights to all three of the books. The company is hoping to turn "Beautiful Creatures" into a franchise. The movie is about Ethan, a teen-aged boy, and Lena, a mysterious new girl in town. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their families and the town where they live. Also read: Viola Davis to Star in Alcon's Adaptation of 'Beautiful Creatures' Irons will play Macon Ravenwood, Lena's mysterious uncle. Davis plays Amma, a seer who watches after Ethan and his father after the boy's mother dies. Jack O'Connell plays Ethan and Alice Englert plays Lena. Erwin Stoff ("The Matrix," "I Am Legend") will produce with Alcon's co-founders and co-CEOs Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove. Richard LaGravenese, who directed Alcon's "P.S. I Love You," and wrote "Water for Elephants," "The Bridges of Madison County" and "The Fisher King," is directing. The movie begins filming in April in and around New Orleans. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |