The Lovely Bones, by Peter Jackson!

It’s official — Peter Jackson will direct The Lovely Bones, something I’ve written about before.

I said back then that I thought it would get better treatment at the hands of a lesser-known director, and I still believe it. Not that a change of director would prevent me from hoofing it to the cinema / DVD store when it’s released in 2007. After all, Peter Jackson was once a lesser-known director who I spied buying sweeties in a New Zealand movie theatre back in 1989.

• 19 Jan 2005