Huh?

from IMDB news:
"Peter Jackson To Direct Harrowing Rape Story?

Lord Of The Rings director Peter Jackson has shocked Hollywood by tentatively agreeing to take over the harrowing tale of a teenage rape and murder victim after director Lynne Ramsay walked out. The Oscar-winning New Zealand-based movie maker, who will film King Kong later this year, is negotiating with producers to make Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones his next project. The story is narrated by the dead girl from heaven as she follows her family's attempts to deal with her gruesome death and the efforts of a detective to solve the case."

I never saw that coming. I wonder if it will really go. I just can't imagine how such a film would be. The book was so small and personal, and Jackson's so epic. Well, Heavenly Creatures isn't, but still.