Rachel Weisz is the first cast member announced for Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones. In the adaptation of Alice Seabold's best-selling novel, Weisz will play the mother of a girl who is kidnapped and murdered but watches over her family from beyond and sees how the loss gradually changes them all.
The film's set to shoot in Pensylvania and New Zealand in October, from a script written by Jackson and Philippa Boyens.