Ryan Gosling has dropped out of The Lovely Bones, the movie based on the very popular book that is currently being directed by Peter Jackson. He reportedly dropped out, a day before shooting was supposed to begin, due to creative differences. Ryan had gained twenty-pounds and grew a beard in order to play Jack Salmon, the father of a girl who has been murdered. Mark Wahlberg has been brought in to replace him.

I always thought Ryan was a little too young to play Jack, so I'm going to give this an upgrade, even though looks wise they're both hot as hell.

This is the second time Peter Jackson has had to recast last minute, the first time was when he cast Stuart Townsend to play Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which he replaced with Viggo Mortenson

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