Anya ,'Storyteller'
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Hey -- what's with Kane and baseball? Does he have a background? Or are the Jolie film and the FPJr movies just coincidence?
Well, he has sung the Star Spangled banner at baseball games and such. But in Broken Hearts Club he had no connection to baseball/softball, he seemed to be hired strictly on the basis of how good he would look all sweaty in workout gear.
I haven't seen the movie (yet), but I'm guessing pretty good.
I clicked on Vonnie's link. Is it just me? Caviezel squicks me bigtime. And it's not just that Mel bloodfest, either, he has, ever since Monte Cristo, which is what I first remember him in.
I didn't much like the book, but I might like the movie, depending on how they break it for screen:
Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh pony up some of their precious Lord of the Rings coin to buy the rights to Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones, which will keep the studio development monkeys from flinging their feces on the project at least until the script is finished
ita, I didn't love it much, either. The older I get, it seems the more that people cream over some "innovative new telling" in some bestseller, the more likely it is that some excellent fantasy/sci fi writer has done it 15 years before, and done it better.
The Lovely Bones is a lousy novel, but a great movie treatment. It needs to right director, though, and I'm not convinced Jackson's stylised FX movie instincts are right; I'd always thought of it as a Peter Weir project.
It needs to right director, though, and I'm not convinced Jackson's stylised FX movie instincts are right
I dunno, if he goes the Heavenly Creatures route it could be OK. (I haven't read TLB, though).
I'm not convinced Jackson's stylised FX movie instincts are right
After watching Heavenly Creatures, I'm absolutely certain PJ can do a movie about a dead girl and weird family dynamics, but I haven't read the novel myself, so I don't know if there's other things about the novel that would make it less of a good match for his style.
HA! Wildly improbable x-post with Fiona!
It's Heavenly Creatures - and the incredibly overt evocation of the fantasy world - that makes me dread a Jackson Lovely Bones movie. It will only work if they pull back on the fantasy and make it suggestive rather than explicit. Which is not to say I don't like HC, of course.
and the incredibly overt evocation of the fantasy world
I didn't think that was HC's strength at all, though. These were, what, a couple of very brief sequences? Otherwise I thought he was extremely good at capturing the unspoken dynamic between the girls.
But, as I say not having read LB, it's not really possible for me to comment further....