Aug 04 2009
The Trailer for the ‘Lovely Bones’ Trailer
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY1K6YQ2Cx8
If I pitched you a story about a girl who was murdered, then solves her own case from beyond the grave, you would probably think I was pitching you some sort of Lifetime original movie. But as it turns out, The Lovely Bones is a massively best selling book (my mom totally read it in her book club) and the movie version is being directed by Peter Jackson.
So I’m willing to overlook the seeming ridiculousness of it all and give it a chance. ET is promising to debut the trailer tomorrow, but until then, here’s the “trailer for the trailer” which features about 30 seconds of mish-mash that looks decently cool.
I can’t really picture Peter Jackson directing a movie like this. It’s like Quentin Tarantino doing a rom com or something.
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Just from the description, doesn’t this sound like that Lindsay Lohan movie that was in theaters for about 2 weeks?
You haven’t read the book? In all respect, because I usually like your posts, but your sarcasm here is severely misplaced. This book, along with the two others I read from Alice Sebold, is as far removed from anything Lifetime as I am from the nearest inhabited planet. It is a very dramatic book, but also a quite ruthless one, there is no glossing over the tragic, most deeply human realities of loss, suffering, torture and the sometimes pivotal family dynamics between the main characters. I think the trailer will look absolutely mesmerizing, and those douchebags over at Entertainment Tonight completely raped the premise by voicing it over with a summarisation of the plot which sounds like a three year-old read the backflap of the book and scribbled it on their cutting-room wall!
Peter Jackson kneading this book into a movie is the best thing I could have hoped for to happen to it. He was, after all, the mind behind Heavenly creatures…
Seriously. Read the book. It’s not what you’d expect.