The Fight Over the Bones; Lynne Ramsay Was Set to Direct the Lovely Bones Until the Big Guns Got Word of Its Potential
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Lynne Ramsay may have mixed feelings about Peter Jackson's forthcoming remake of King Kong, if she can bring herself to see it at all. The image of a big, hairy monster laying waste to everything in his path might just bring back bad memories. The feted Scottish director of Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar recently suffered the loss of a long-cherished project - an adaptation of Alice Sebold's best- selling novel The Lovely Bones - only to see the mighty Jackson lumber in and claim it for his own, like a great big monkey scooping up a squealing blonde. Actually, the order of events depends upon who you listen to: some accounts have it that Ramsay walked out and will be replaced by Jackson, while others contend (arguably more persuasively) that Ramsay was ousted when Jackson expressed an interest.
The Lovely Bones was first suggested as a project to Ramsay in 2000, soon after her auspicious debut with Ratcatcher, and before she confirmed her position as reigning queen of the UK arthouse scene with the befuddling, beautiful Morvern Callar. Sebold's novel - a murder mystery told from the point of view of the 14-year-old female victim - had yet to hit the big time too. FilmFour had optioned it on the strength of its first 100 pages, which they received only after every major Hollywood studio had read and rejected them.See the full content of this document
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The Fight Over the Bones; Lynne Ramsay Was Set to Direct the Lovely Bones Until the Big Guns Got Word of Its Potential
Ramsay was duly hired to adapt the novel with Liana Dognini, who had also collaborated with her on the Morvern Callar script. Even after FilmFour shut down its production wing and cancelled most of its outstanding projects, it expressed its intention to press on with The L...
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