Alice Sebold’s juggernaut bestseller
The Lovely Bones
is getting a big-screen adaptation courtesy of Peter Jackson, who directed the even more massive
Lord of the Rings
trilogy. The film-about the spirit (ghost? soul?) of a young girl who watches her family try to solve the mystery of her murder-doesn’t come out until December, but
the trailer has just been released
. It looks fantastical, creepy, and awesome. Based on the trailers alone, I’m much more excited for this than I am for the year’s other big softly-sci-fi screen adaptation,
The Time Traveler’s Wife
. (Plus I can’t get enough of that
Saoirse Ronan
, who played the little linchpin in
Atonement
.)
I missed the original
Lovely Bones
craze-as I somehow manage to do with every big book universally declared to be awesome-but seeing the trailer makes me want to just wait for the movie, so I can be totally surprised. Good idea? Bad idea? What did you all think of the novel-and does this trailer meet your expectations?
Still from The Lovely Bones trailer courtesy of DreamWorks Pictures.
