'A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET' STAR JOINS LAGRAVENESE'S 'BEAUTIFUL CREATURES'

Actor Kyle Gallner has signed up to Richard LaGravenese's supernatural love story 'Beautiful Creatures' and is set to play Larkin, the younger brother of Emmy Rossum's character. Gallner (below), who previously starred in genre entries 'A Haunting in Connecticut' and the 2010 remake of 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'. The love story which focuses on Ethan and Lena who are played by Alden Ehrenreich ('Twixt') and Alice Englert is based on the novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.  Zoey Deutch ('Ringer'), Emmy Rossum ('Shameless'), Viola Davis ('The Help'), Thomas Mann and Brits Emma Thompson ('Men in Black III') and Jeremy Irons all co-star in the feature currently shooting in New Orleans.

"In Ethan Wate's hometown there lies the darkest of secrets ...There is a girl. Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. Green eyes, black hair. Lena Duchannes. There is a curse. On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it's been promised. And no one can stop it. In the end, there is a grave. Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. But Lena is cursed and on her sixteenth birthday, her fate will be decided. Ethan never even saw it coming."

Kyle Gallner in 'Beautiful Creatures'