Alice Sebold

...this character," Ford told Reuters. Oscar winner Peter Jackson ("The Lord of the Rings" films) is back with a big screen adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel "The Lovely Bones," starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon. The...

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...family and her uncaught killer. Size of ambitions: Considerable since the director is Peter Jackson but his adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestseller will likely be far closer in tone to his pre-Lord of the Rings drama Heavenly...

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...canvases of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "King Kong" with the equivalent of an intimate portrait - an adaptation of Alice Sebold's best-seller about a murdered girl and her family's struggle to cope with the loss. A lot will depend...

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...Peter Jackson turns to the homefront while keeping a foot in otherworldly realms with "The Lovely Bones," an adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel about a slain girl (Saoirse Ronan) watching over her family from heaven. Jackson said he...

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...though their action-adventurism should lighten the load. There are other high-end literary adaptations with "The Lovely Bones," Alice Sebold's tale of a young girl's rape and murder in director Peter Jackson's hands and Christopher Isherwood's...

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..."Ring" cycle -- "The Return of the King." Working again with his winning co-writers Fran Walsh and Phlippa Boyens, Jackson has adapted Alice Sebold's bestseller. The only concern could be that Jackson has directed just one performer -- Ian...

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