The first movie was based on the hit YA novel of the same name but will Beautiful Creatures 2 ever move ahead? Following the huge success of the original Hunger Games movie starring Jennifer Lawrence, there was a sudden influx of YA movie adaptations. This includes The Maze Runner trilogy and The Divergent series. This thread burned out almost as quickly as it began, with the box-office gross for Divergent: Allegiant being so underwhelming that a planned fourth and final instalment was cancelled.
Beautiful Creatures joined the YA pile-up in 2013, which was based on the first instalment of the Caster Chronicles book series. The movie starred Solo: A Star Wars Story's Alden Ehrenreich as Ethan, a teenager who falls for mysterious new student Lena (Alice Englert). Ethan soon learns Lena comes from a family of "casters" and that she has magical powers. This does little to dissuade their romance, however, much to the chagrin of some members of Lena's family. Beautiful Creatures featured some sumptuous production design and a supporting cast of heavy hitters like Viola Davis (Widows) and Emma Thompson, but it disappointed fans with its many changes to the source material.
The ending certainly left the door open for more installments, but how likely is Beautiful Creatures 2?
Beyond Beautiful Creatures, the Caster Chronicles series spawned three further books and a spinoff series too. The next book is titled Beautiful Darkness and continues the love story between Ethan and Lena and follows in the aftermath of the death of the latter's uncle Macon - played by Jeremy Irons in the movie - while they discover some secrets about their hometown of Gatlin.
Despite being based on a successful novel and featuring a talented cast, Beautiful Creatures was a financial disappointment upon release in 2013, and just about covered its production budget. Critics felt the movie was dull and the central romance was a little too sappy, while followers of the book series hated many of the changes it made.
While the original film has its own fans the odds of Beautiful Creatures 2 coming together now are close to zero. The first film was a flop and the lead actors are too old to convincingly play teenagers, as Ethan and Lena still are in Beautiful Darkness. The YA movie bubble has long since burst too, so even if the first movie has a cult following, there's simply not enough interest in a Beautiful Creatures 2. Maybe the Caster Chronicles will receive a movie or TV reboot in the future, but for now, the franchise is dormant.
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