Directors have had mixed success adapting fantastical, challenging literary novels for the big screen. Just a few years ago, Peter Jackson tried to adapt Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones using oceans of computer-generated psychedelia, and he face-planted
After taking plenty of hits from critics and facing a dismal soft opening, Lovely Bones ramped up its ticket sales by playing to a new crowd: tween and teen girls. Will this spark an insurgence of thoughtful supernatural women-targeted films?
Saoirse Ronan plays poor Susie Salmon, who's marked for bloody death in Peter Jackson's film adaptation of The Lovely Bones. We talked to her about pairing the movie's devastatingly frightening scenes with Jackson's imaginative effects.
The man who managed to film Lord Of The Rings has chosen to adapt introspective afterlife novel The Lovely Bones, and once again he's taken some liberties. But the result is a surprisingly seamless fusion of Hitchcock and Salvador Dali.
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Here are 26 images that will take you deep into the gorgeous afterworld of Peter Jackson's Lovely Bones. The main character, a murdered young woman, lives in a Purgatory that blends New Zealand and American Suburbia, flavored with 1970s kitsch.
Meet the cast of Peter Jackson's Lovely Bones, and step inside his haunting depiction of the afterlife. Wired Magazine takes us behind the scenes and shows us how Jackson is transforming Alice Sebold's novel into unforgettable visuals.
Get a first look at Peter Jackson's surprisingly uplifting adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestseller The Lovely Bones, about a brutally murdered teen's view from purgatory/heaven and her acceptance of death.
