A nasty fantasy flop, of which actually 3 (!) parts should come

If you are in the mood for romantic fantasy, you should take your time with Beautiful Creatures – An Immortal Love today. The book adaptation with Star Wars star Alden Ehrenreich was made in best Twilight tradition. We explain below why it was only one film.

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On TV today: What is the fantasy film Beautiful Creatures about?

16-year-old Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) has the same nightmare every night. When the mysterious Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert) comes to his school, he recognizes her as the girl from his dreams and immediately falls in love with her. But Lena carries a difficult secret with her. Like her whole family, she owns supernatural abilities and on her 16th birthday it is decided whether she will cross over to the light or the dark side of magic.

Beautiful Creatures was a disastrous flop

The movie came in cinemas during the Young Adult wave. Book adaptations like The Hunger Games and Twilight were incredibly successful at the time and triggered a whole hype. Accordingly, a lot was expected of Beautiful Creatures.

However, the film only grossed $60 million worldwide; the budget was also $60 million. Adding in marketing costs (about $30 million), Beautiful Creatures ended up well into the red.

Unfortunately, the film by Richard LaGravenese is one of the productions that heralded the end of the young adult hype that soon followed. A continuation of the series was out of the question, but there would have been enough material.

There are 3 more parts in the Beautiful Creatures book series

Beautiful Creatures – Eine immortliche Liebe uses the first volume of the 4-part series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. In German: Sixteen Moons – An Immortal Love. There are more to come:

If the first part had been more successful in cinemas, fans would have been in for an epic on the scale of the Twilight franchise.

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