Spielberg & Jackson to Bring Sebold's Susie Salmon to the Big Screen

Spielberg & his DreamWorks SKG bought the film rights to Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones after years of trying to make it happen. Peter Jackson wrote the script and he'll direct it.  I suspect the jostling for the role of Susie Salmon has already begun.  Or has it?  Quite a dark and brutal role, should be interesting to see how well/not well the subject matter is handled.  Especially the looking down from heaven bit, I could see that getting very bad very quickly. Will Sebold's book be butchered? Consider the IMDB watch under way...