BBC - Films - High Noon - 23rd April 2004

		Monkey Business Peter Jackson is eyeing The Lovely Bones as his follow-up to skyscrape-smashing remake King Kong. The Lord Of The Rings writer-director, and scribbling partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, are in talks to adapt the bestselling Alice Sebold novel - which was once a project for Morvern Callar's Lynne Ramsey. An intimate drama in the vien of Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, The Lovely Bones is narrated by a 14-year-old girl who has been raped and murdered. From the afterlife, she looks on as her family grieve and a detective tries to catch her killer. Pass the popcorn.

		Weir Recognition Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World director Peter Weir will next helm Pattern Recognition, a thriller about a marketing expert whose life is endangered when she tries to track down strange video footage on the web. Based on a novel by Neuromancer author William Gibson, it will be scripted by Weir and Spy Game scribe David Arata... Know-the-face-if-not-the-name actor Ron Perlman (soon to be seen in Hellboy) will star as the sadistic chief of a juvenile detention centre, in Coldwater - to shoot this June... London's very own red under the bed, mayor Ken Livingston, is encouraging film production in the capital. Film London has been launched to promote filmmaking in the Big Smoke, with sometime producer and Lord, David Puttnam, working to cut back on bureaucratic red tape. If he could make the Tube run on time, too, Uncle High Noon would really appreciate it.