Behind The Films

Two images from Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lovely Bones’ have hit the web, as well as an interview with Peter Jackson himself.

In the interview Mr. Jackson talks about the challenges of adapting ‘The Lovley Bones’ into a film and how reading the book affected him.

Q: What about Alice Sebold’s novel appealed to you?

A: As soon as I read the book, I was inspired by how unique this story could be as a film — both in a narrative sense and as well as visually. Perhaps most of all, I responded to the hope and good humor that runs throughout the book. It’s an emotional experience reading Alice’s book, but it’s far from a grim and depressing story. I found it to be both hopeful and strangely comforting, I think perhaps because Susie herself comes to terms with her death, and her attitude helps to inform our own. As narrator, she never veers into self-indulgence or self pity.

We’ve tried to use many different elements to bring the book to life — through music, through sound design, through exploring imagery. It’s one of the most challenging movies I’ve ever made, but also one of the most satisfying. I’m very proud of the work of everyone on this film.

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Synopsis from Amazon

On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon (“like the fish”) is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer–the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey.

Alice Sebold’s haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, The Lovely Bones, unfolds from heaven, where “life is a perpetual yesterday” and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie’s resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her “simplest dreams,” where “there were no teachers…. We never had to go inside except for art class…. The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue.”

Based on the Alice Sebold novel, ‘The Lovely Bones’ stars Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Jake Abel and Saoirse Ronan. It is set to hit theaters in North America on December 11th.

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Source: USA Today via Collider & Empire