LOVELY BONES clip online

Wednesday, November 25, 2009


A new clip is online for The Lovely Bones, Peter Jackson's upcoming movie based on the Alice Sebold book.


The Lovely Bones Clip

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This clip almost makes the film look like a teen romance, which is pretty misleading given what we know about the dark, supernatural nature of the story.

Jackson's had a peculiar career. He got his start with gross-out zombie comedies in his native New Zealand, then he totally changed course with Heavenly Creatures in 1994, a wrenching, visually stunning docudrama about two New Zealand schoolgirls whose obsessive, shared fantasy life led them to commit murder. It featured a breakout performance by a young Kate Winslet and turned Jackson into a star director in the art-house scene... And then he changed course yet again, with the Michael J. Fox supernatural comedy misfire, The Frighteners. I was a huge Creatures fan and I kept hoping that he'd take on another project that challenging. But after The Frighteners he went off to do the Rings pictures and King Kong, then he signed on to The Hobbit and it looked like that was it for him - he was just going to make big, noisy epics from there on out.

So I was thrilled when the news hit that Jackson was adapting Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones. The book is an intense, bittersweet story in which a murdered girl struggles to accept her own death and move on to whatever afterlife awaits her. This is exactly the sort of story I'd like to see Jackson take on, something more human-scale where his visual flights of fancy can really stand out.


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"Science fiction plucks from within us our deepest fears and hopes, then shows them to us in rough disguise: the monster and the rocket." - W.H. Auden

Who is he, this one who is called "Greg Stacy"?

Greg Stacy began the MONSTERS AND ROCKETS blog in April of 2009. Prior to that, he was editor of the popular sci-fi/horror news website DARKWOLDS.COM. He has also written for LA WEEKLY, OC WEEKLY, UTNE READER and LOS ANGELES CITYBEAT. He always feels weird writing about himself in the third person.

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