Dreamworks Wins Peter Jackson’s Lovely Bones

Posted by support@reallyscary.com (ReallyScary.com) on May 6, 2007 Variety reports Peter Jackson will make his next movie at DreamWorks. Committing at least $65 million, DreamWorks in association with Film 4 has won the bidding for Jackson's bigscreen adaptation of Alice Sebold's best-selling 2002 book The Lovely Bones.

Jackson is set to begin lensing in October in Pennsylvania and New Zealand from a script he co-wrote with Lord of the Rings collaborators Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh. Paramount, which owns DreamWorks, will distribute "Bones" worldwide, with Jackson promising to deliver the film by the fourth quarter 2008.

Bones is closer in tone to Jackson's 1994 "Heavenly Creatures than the epic Ring series or King Kong. Sebold's book tells the story of a 14-year-old who has been raped and killed, and now watches over her family and killer.

"When you read an emotionally magical story that cries out to be turned into a major motion picture, you hope its winding path can find its way to the door of your own company," DreamWorks' Steven Spielberg said.