Peter Jackson Takes Full Blame for Firing Ryan Gosling From ‘The Lovely Bones’ Almost Two Decades Later

‘The Lovely Bones’ has always occupied a curious corner of Peter Jackson’s filmography. The 2009 supernatural drama, based on Alice Sebold’s novel, starred Saoirse Ronan as a murdered teenager who watches over her family from the afterlife, a premise that gave the film a haunting emotional weight from the page to the screen. It remains...