Beautiful Creatures
Gothic fantasyBeautiful Creaturesboasts some stunning scenery but where was the movie filmed ? base on the YA book of the same name by authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl , Beautiful Creatureswas adapted for the large filmdom by writer - director Richard LaGravenese in 2013 . This fantasy Romance language tells the taradiddle of Ethan Wate ( Alden Ehrenreich , Solo : A Star Wars Story ) – a stripling last in a small southerly townspeople who light for a mysterious newcomer named Lena Duchannes ( Alice Englert , Ratched ) who just happens to have supernatural powers .
Garcia and Stohl ’s book was a best - seller that breed three more novels known as theCaster Chroniclesand a spinoff series titledDangerous Creatures . Beautiful Creaturesdidn’t translate very well to the gravid projection screen , however , and barely die even at the box office . Even a supporting cast of characters that include Oscar winners Viola Davis , Jeremy Irons , and Emma Thompson could n’t do much to bring up the moving picture above mediocrity and any hope of it launching an uber - successful YA franchise like theTwilight SagaorThe Hunger Gameswere scare away .
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Critics did n’t find many things right withBeautiful Creatures , but the sultry Southern Gothic put conspire up by its cinematography did get a flock of praise . While the movie is place in the fancied town of Gatlin , South Carolina it was actually film on localisation in Louisiana – mostly in and around New Orleans and Baton Rouge . The picturesque township of Covington – locate just north of Lake Pontchartrain – stood in forfictionalGatlin while the moving-picture show ’s Civil War re - enactment scenes were film a duo of hours away in St. Francisville .
view read the exterior of Ravenswood Manor – the grand antebellum mansion where Lena lives with her uncle Macon ( Jeremy Irons ) – were filmed on the grounds of a household built in the 1830s on the outskirts of Baton Rouge in a town call Morganza . In New Orleans itself , houses in the metropolis ’s Garden District served as the outside of Ethan and Mrs Lincoln ’s ( Emma Thompson ) homes while the Prytania motion picture theatre was where Ethan and Lena went on their first date .
Beautiful Creaturesisn’t the only product to take advantage of the luscious Louisiana scenery surroundingNew Orleansand Baton Rouge . Movies includingInterview With A Vampire,12 Years A SlaveandGreen Bookalongside TV show likeTrue roue , the third season ofAmerican Horror Storyand – unsurprisingly – NCIS : New Orleansall feature scenes shoot in the Big Easy and in and around Baton Rouge .
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