All it takes is a few more flops and this phase of crappy teen adaptation will finally come to and end. Warner Bros. is looking ahead as with Harry Potter ready to graduate from Hogwarts, Warners has gone back to the cauldron to stir up another coming-of-age wizard franchise. The studio has acquired Beautiful Creatures, the first of a five-novel series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl that’s being published todayby Little, Brown. Richard LaGravenese is set to write the script and direct the film. In the first book, high-school student Ethan Wate meets and becomes bewitched by Lena Duchannes, a 16-year-old whose family has moved to the small South Carolina town where he lives. The two must confront a curse that has haunted her family for generations as she comes to grips with her powers.
