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Source: ONE News
Peter Jackson's latest movie The Lovely Bones will have its world premiere in London on Monday.
It's already a hot tip to feature at the Oscars and on the eve of the world premiere, Saoirse Ronan, the lead actor and Susan Sarandon joined the Kiwi director at the pre-premiere media conference.
The A-list cast, the in-demand director and the best-selling novel the film's based on have combined to make The Lovely Bones one of the year's most anticipated films.
But, even for a man experienced at adapting books, Jackson says the movie was a challenge.
"Figuring out how you take the book, which affected us emotionally and how you try to preserve what it was that was so powerful about the book, 'cos it's so easy to see it slip away," Jackson says.
A story about the afterlife, The Lovely Bones is about a raped and murdered girl, who watches her family's grief from heaven.
"I think there is some kind of energy, that's a spirit or a soul or whatever you want to call it, that survives after we die," says Jackson on whether he believed in the afterlife.
The movie will open in New Zealand theatres in three weeks time.
