Posted in Cast Highlight by nightfall 05/21/2008 @ 12:42 p.m.

Already in production (due out Oct 2009), this film is an adaptation of Alice Sebold's best selling novel of the same title. Peter Jackson and company wrote the screenplay and Jackson's directing. It's an intense story and I'm not sure I'll be able to read the novel or see the movie, but I'm sure many of you will.

We have a cast for it here thanks to superstarjpp back in 2005.

Cinematical has an excellent writeup of the book and how the author thinks the adaptation process might go for such a difficult thing including his thoughts on the casting choices:

The casting makes me cringe a little, but I'm inclined to trust Jackson's judgment. Saoirse Ronan, fresh off her Atonement Oscar nomination, seems like an almost too on-the-nose choice for Susie. Days before filming was to start, Ryan Gosling stepped out of the Jack Salmon role over concerns about the character's age (late-30's to late-40's, over the course of the novel) versus the actor's (28); Mark Wahlberg replaced him. Rachel Weisz plays Abigail, Jack's wife. Both seem a bit too attractive for their emphatically average-suburban-Joe roles, but that's Hollywood. (I had thought of David Strathairn for Mr. Salmon, but that may also have been too on-the-nose.) I can't even imagine what Susan Sarandon will do with the role of the hard-drinking, make-up-obsessed Grandma Lynn. On the other hand, Anna George is a great choice for the alluring Ruana Singh, and I have absolutely no quibbles with the casting of Stanley Tucci as Susie's brooding, solitary murderer. It's a change of pace for Tucci, but he should have no trouble.

It's an interesting read for us movie buffs.

tags (add tags): Alice Sebold, Cinematical, novel adaptation, Peter Jackson, The Lovely Bones

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