Warner Bros. has acquired the screen rights to Beautiful Creatures (Little, Brown, $17.99, 9780316042673/0316042676), the initial volume in a five-novel series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. Variety reported that Richard LaGravanese will write the script and direct the film, with Erwin Stoff producing.

"I love supernatural stories that have well drawn mythologies, and I liked that this book has all the basic elements of a classic first love story with a supernatural layer over it," LaGravanese said. "So the first time they hear the words boyfriend and girlfriend, they accidentally overhear each other telepathically. Their first kiss comes after he saves her life and their first date is part of a bigger adventure that leads to the unraveling of the mysterious curse that haunts her family." He recently adapted Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants for Fox 2000.