Emmy Rossum to participate 'Beautiful Creatures'

Rossum"Shameless" star Emmy Rossum is at final discussions to participate the cast of Warner Bros. and Alcon Entertainment's supernatural love story "Beautiful Creatures."Richard LaGravenese will direct using their own adaptation in the first novel in Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's popular quantity of books, the three that have been launched by Little Brown Books.Occur the South, story follows two star-joined teenage fanatics -- a close boy together with unknown new girl -- who uncover dark secrets regarding families, their background their town.Jack O'Connell and Alice Englert are likely to star alongside Viola Davis and Emma Thompson. Rossum may have Ridley, Englert's cousin who increased to become dark witch on her behalf account 16th birthday, which switched the two women into competitors.Erwin Stoff is creating with Alcon cake cake toppers Broderick Manley and Andrew Kosove. Pic starts shooting later in New Orleans.Rossum's past feature credits include "Mystic River," "The Following Day Of Tomorrow," "The Phantom in the Opera" and "Poseidon." She presently stars on Showtime's hit series "Shameless." Thesp is repped by ICM as well as the Schiff Company. Contact Rob Sneider at rob.sneider@variety.com