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Awards Daily: How to Build the Lovely Bones Afterlife
In Contention: Which Peter Jackson will show up for ‘Lovely Bones?’
| A sneak peak....well, in article format....of The Lovely Bones. http://tinyurl.com/y8ddcps Loved the book when it came out however long ago. 28 days ago |
How to Build the Lovely Bones Afterlife
Awards Daily —
... The LA Times’ Rachel Abramowitz talks to the screenwriters about how to bring the fantasy elements of The Lovely Bones to the screen. Hands down, this would be the hardest line to walk adapting the novel to the screen. However, it’s worth noting that if there is one director who can do it it’s Peter Jackson. ...
Which Peter Jackson will show up for ‘Lovely Bones?’
In Contention —
... That said, a pointed reminder of the film’s digitally-aided visual floridity (dedicedly a latter-day Jackson hallmark) came in yesterday’s LA Times, in which Jackson’s co-writer Philippa Boyens explains that the film’s afterlife sequences aim to emulate “language of dreams,” and breaks down some of the more elaborate imagery we can expect — including a running visual motif of blossoming flowers. More ...

