[Now Filming] First Photo from the Set of ‘Safe Haven’!

The fist photo from the set Safe Haven surfaced online last week, featuring the film’s stars Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel.

Us Weekly scored the first image of both lead actors, along with their young costar Mimi Kirkland, on the Southport, North Carolina set of the much anticipated adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel of the same name.

Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel and Mimi Kirkland on the NC set of ‘Safe Haven’. (photo: Us Weekly)

Safe Haven – starring Julianne Hough (Rock of Ages, Footloose), Josh Duhamel (Transformers), and Cobie Smulders (The Avengers) - is currently filming in Southport, NC.

Lasse Hallstrom (My Life as a Dog, The Cider House Rules) directs. Relativity previously teamed up with Hallstrom and Sparks on the 2010 box office hit Dear John.

The plot is ”a young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her”.

North Carolina previously hosted the Sparks adaptations A Walk to Remember (2002), also filmed in Southport, and Nights in Rodanthe (2007), filmed in Rodanthe.

You can find Safe Haven in theaters on February 8, 2013.