“The Lovely Bones” – Behind the scenes video
Last week, we see the first official trailer for The Lovely Bones, which, while a bit heavy on spoilers, showed enough potential to merit some early Academy Award chatter. Now, we have even more footage of The Lovely Bones thanks to a behind the scenes featurette.
The featurette titled “An Emotional Journey” takes a look at the making of the Alice Sebold’s novel adaptation with commentary from director Peter Jackson, co-producer and screenwriter Philippa Boyens, and several cast members.
Featuring many on-the-set footage, the video hears Jackson first praising Sebold’s work with the book and how Saoirse Ronan brings the main character Susie Salmon to life. Explanation of the story itself is provided by two of the film’s actors, Rachel Weisz and Mark Wahlberg.
“The Lovely Bones” starts off with what appears to be an idealized 1973 nuclear family of Jack and Susie Salmon and their three children: Susie, Lindsey and Buckley. At 14, Susie is the oldest and the apple of her father’s eye, but before you can see the end of act one coming, tragedy strikes and Susie is brutally murdered by George Harvey, a neighbor. Harvey is a psychotic who manically covers his tracks leaving the police have no leads on who committed the crime. To make matters worse, the only part of her body ever found is her dismembered elbow. Predictably, the Salmons go into a tailspin and Jack becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about what happened to his daughter.
In the meantime — or more importantly – outside of time and space, Susie’s soul has reached some sort of fantasmic utopia. A beautiful world she at first thinks is heaven, but soon learns connects her to her unresolved fate on earth.
Coming from “The Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson, the drama film gets Rachel Weisz and Mark Wahlberg to be Susie’s parents, Susan Sarandon as Susie’s grandmother, Stanley Tucci as Susie’s killer George Harvey, and Michael Imperioli as Len Fenerman, a police detective in charge of investigating Susie’s death.
“The Lovely Bones” opens nationwide on Dec. 11.
