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Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire

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14:05 / 05.08.04

The fourth movie gets it own shiny new thread!

from Cinescape.com:

He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has been found.

British actor Ralph Fiennes (SCHINDLER'S LIST, RED DRAGON) has been selected to play the dreaded Lord Voldemort in HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE. In J.K. Rowling's fourth novel Voldemort finally realizes his goal of acquiring a new body to replace the one he lost when a magic spell backfired years ago.

Also cast in the film is Miranda Richardson (THE HOURS) who will play sleazy tabloid reporter Rita Skeeter.

Warners also firmed up the remainder of the film's supporting cast which includes the following individuals: Robert Pattinson as Cedric Diggory; Stanslav Ianevski as Viktor Krum; Clemency Posey as Fleur Delacour; Katie Leung as Cho Chang; Pedja Bjelac as Durmstrang Professor Igor Karkaroff; Jeff Rawle as Amos Diggory; Roger Lloyd-Pack as Barty Crouch, the Head of the Department of International Magical Cooperation; and David Tennant will play Barty Crouch Jr.

Making up some of the many Hogwarts students are Matthew Lewis as Neville; Devon Murray as Seamus; Jamie Waylett as Crabbe; Joshua Herdman as Goyle; Alfie Enoch as Dean; Oliver Phelps as Fred Weasley; James Phelps as George Weasley; and Chris Rankin as Percy.

Gary Oldman will also be back to reprise his role as Sirius Black; Michael Gambon as Headmaster Albus Dumbledore; Robert Hardy as Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge; Shirley Henderson as Moaning Myrtle; Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy; Alan Rickman as Professor Snape; Maggie Smith as Professor McGonagall; Timothy Spall as Peter Pettigrew; Mark Williams as Arthur Weasley; and of course, Robbie Coltrane will be back as Harry's favorite giant groundskeeper, Hagrid.

Mike Newell (Director); Steve Kloves (Screenwriter); David Heyman, Chris Columbus (Producers); based on the novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling.

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE is currently filming in England and Scotland and will be out in theaters in November, 2005.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

08:04 / 06.08.04

I notice they haven't mentioned Draco in there, have they bowed to the filmic inevitable and written him out?

13:01 / 31.08.04

from cinescape.com --

As first reported by The Times of India (and then by Coming Soon), MONSOON WEDDING director Mira Nair has been asked to direct the fifth HARRY POTTER film, HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX. "I'm getting offers to direct HARRY POTTER: THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX," Mira told the Times. "I read it over the weekend. I'm still deciding... I'm not letting all this go to my head. I'm grounded."

Nair, whose son is a fan of the movies and has watched all three with him, is deciding whether she'll accept the job or not. Her latest film is VANITY FAIR, based on William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name, is scheduled to open in theaters this week.

If indeed Nair has read the script for ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, this is the first that anyone has heard of screenwriter Steve Kloves having finished the script. Director Mike Newell is knee-deep filming the fourth picture, HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE for a November 2005 release. If Warner Bros., the studio behind the HARRY POTTER movie franchise, clicks with a director soon the fifth movie could possibly be out in theaters before the end of 2006.

13:41 / 31.08.04

No word on who's playing Mad-Eye Moody, then? Odd... unless...

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...they mean for David Tennant (Crouch Jr.) to play both roles, with a heavy make-up job for Moody? Seems unlikely, given that (a) Tennant is, AFAIK, a fairly young guy (he played Romeo for the RSC two/three years ago), and (b) the Polyjuice Potion transformation seems a lot more, well, magical if it does something beyond the capabilities of prosthetics and voice-work.

13:48 / 31.08.04

Whoops—never mind: according to the IMDb, Brendan Gleeson will play Mad-Eye.

Good call. When reading the books aloud, I always do my Sean Connery voice for Mad-Eye, but that would've been too much to ask, I suppose.

14:59 / 31.08.04

Draco didn't feature too heavily in the book anyway, so hopefully he won't be in the film but his dad will be (why have a hamburger when there's a steak?).

In fact he has increasingly become wimpier in the films - shame as they need to make him quite nasty (in the true sense rather than the Billy Bunter sense) for when he becomes an Inquisitor.

Brenden Gleeson is a great bit of casting.

Here's hoping they don't waste too much time with Cho and SPEW.

And here's hoping Neville becomes more than buck-toothed comic relief.

17:49 / 31.08.04

When reading the books aloud, I always do my Sean Connery voice for Mad-Eye, but that would've been too much to ask, I suppose.

Heheh -- I always used a pirate voice, like Geoffrey Rush in Pirates of the Caribbean.

Hey, if Nair directs, think they'll work in a big dance number?

21:40 / 31.08.04

Not unless it's integral to the plot, I should think: although Nair is Indian-born, she hasn't really worked within the Bollywood tradition. Her films have been relatively naturalistic--well, as naturalistic as your usual American indie film, anyway. There was plenty of music in Monsoon Wedding, for instance, but that's just because Indian weddings and the week leading up to them feature lots of music.

A dance number would be madly out-of-place in Order anyway--it's a pretty dark, bleak book. Other than the big school-dance sequence in Goblet, there aren't many musical moments in the Potter books.

Except for the Sorting Hat's songs, of course... I suppose you could squeeze in a sort of Jets vs. Sharks deal to express the House rivalries...

21:38 / 01.09.04

The fete that opens the tournament, man. Wizard dancers!

22:18 / 01.09.04

Aren't most of them just drunken Irish folk?

Oh, but wait, of course, the umm, what do you call them, the Romanian dancing girl things that all men love - room for a big number there!

13:13 / 07.05.05

The poster is out.

I think it's kinda boring, but I don't know what scene (if any) it's depicting.

Also we've got screen captures here.

15:59 / 07.05.05

comma!

or "before"!

FIX IT!

17:51 / 07.05.05

Jarvis Cocker doing the music for HPIV film according to him on Desert Islands Discs. (Entirely OFF TOPIC - I saw JC, pushing baby Albert along Brewer Street yesterday, in his push chair.)

Tryphena Absent

23:27 / 07.05.05

I LOVE that poster. I was driving down an M25 slip road one night, which is right by the studios where the Potter films are shot and there were clouds of smoke rising over a field of tents (which I had seen the day before in daylight from the same road). It looked good.

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03:12 / 08.05.05

Aren't most of them just drunken Irish folk?

One of my cousins made this same remark at one of the many family weddings we attended. It still ranks as one of my favorite questions, despite it's inherent inappropriateness.

I am eagerly awaiting this movie. And I won't miss Draco if he's not in it. Good god that kid grew up ugly.

20:48 / 08.05.05

Trailer is out as well.

14:21 / 11.07.05

There are a few reviews for this film (from the Chicago special screening) over at Ain’t it Cool News that have me excited. Apparently the pacing is a bit off with the first 45 min. but other than that it’s all good.

16:53 / 02.08.05

from Variety recently:

>> Director Mike Newell is using his forthcoming movie Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire to vent his seething mistrust of children. The 63-year-old film-maker is determined to obliterate any sense of false innocence in the magical tale, as he insists kids should be depicted in a more truthful light - as bloodthirsty maniacs. He says, "I was very anxious to break the franchise out of this goody-two-shoes feel. It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting basically."

16:54 / 02.08.05

although I think he means it less viciously than the preceding lead-in sentences imply...more like they're just as capable of darker emotions as adults.

19:10 / 02.08.05

Maybe he's bringing in some soccer hooligan aspect for the Tri-Wizard Cup, all the Slytherin's at least were baying for blood if I recall correctly.

21:42 / 17.08.05

Grammar mavens will be glad to know that the posters were revised before printing: I passed one today at a mall movie theater, and the comma was present and accounted for.

even more interesting is this news, buried in a where-are-they-now article:

He "[Jarvis Cocker] and [Pulp] bassist Steve Mackey will be seen in the new Harry Potter film in a band called The Weird Sisters, alongside members of Radiohead."

Squee.

06:50 / 18.08.05

Weird cross-cultural reference which screws with my fannish head, more like, given that (a) the cultural divide between the wizard and Muggle worlds is near-total (the lack of reference to Muggle music is especially unexpected in a school with around a 10% Muggle-born intake) and (b) Goblet is set in 1994 - around the point at which Pulp released His 'n' Hers and became huuuge.

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:17 / 18.08.05

Don't be silly, Deva. Show me one fanfic graduation ball that has not featured either Enya or Alanis.

Sorry, serious. Yeah - it occurs that this is a bit of a knowing wink, Easter Egg, we were at the Groucho with Jarvis and he mentioned how much he liked the films sort of thing, although I guess the target audience are too young for it to be an issue...

Our Lady Has Left the Building

15:32 / 18.08.05

How do you work out Goblet being '94 when it's two years before Half-Blood Prince which seems to have a post 11/9/01 Blair (albeit not identified) as Muggle PM?

15:12 / 19.08.05

reading the 6th book is getting me psyched for this movie.

16:12 / 16.09.05

New trailer is up.

Sweet mother of fuck, this looks aces.

Tryphena Absent

19:40 / 16.09.05

Show me one fanfic graduation ball that has not featured either Enya or Alanis.

Oh per-lease your reading is limited. At least 70% of HP fanfic features the Weird Sisters as band of choice for balls of any kind.

20:24 / 21.10.05

Didn't realize that the guys from Radiohead and Pulp were actually recording new material for the film, rather than just, y'know, acting. But the collaboration is real, and you can hear it now: the first Weird Sisters track is online.

20:54 / 21.10.05

Also, just FYI: 12A certificate for this one, say the BBFC...

11:36 / 24.10.05

How do you work out Goblet being '94

The books are actually securely datable, from Nearly Headless Nick's 500th Deathday, which I think is in Chamber of Secrets (his date of death is given 1492). The Harry Potter Lexicon, an unbelievably awesome fannish resource, worked out all the dates on that basis and made an accurate timeline, which is consistent with the official Warner Brothers/Rowling-approved timeline (see here). That gives Harry's date of birth as 1980, and everything should be in line with that.

(Obviously the chronology of the books doesn't in fact work that way, as the Prime Minister in the new one makes fairly clear [it should be John Major from the timeline] - the books aren't written with a realistic timeline & seem to be a bit closer to Antonia Forest's Marlowe books, where the kids shift from the 1940s through into the 50s and 60s without getting more than three years older.)

17:26 / 25.10.05

Nice little article about GOBLET here. Dan Radcliffe apparently listens to the Libertines and Louis XIV: can we forgive him?

Interesting tidbit: apparently Mira Nair is off ORDER, and David Yates is on.

Blimey, he's directed a lot of exercise videos, hasn't he...?

13:17 / 18.11.05

opened last night at midnight - anyone see it?

14:05 / 18.11.05

Saw it, thought it was quite sensational.

Some of the editing was a little jarring (especially in the pre-Hogwarts scenes), and it slides, IMO, further into "Illustrated Companion to Harry Potter" territory. That is to say, I think that the movie does depend to a great extent on the viewer's ready familiarity with the books, not so much to follow the plot, but to appreciate the significance of a lot of relatively important points (the Death Eater's tattoos, Ron's growing resentment of Harry's wealth) which are only glimpsed or implied through token interactions on the periphery of plot-development scenes. In a way, it seems like the screenwriter/director took the book itself as their repository of exposition, so they don't have to waste precious screen time on character-to-character explanations and can get right to what people want to see. This is not a criticism, so much, but it did require an expectation-adjustment so I could watch it on its own terms.

In fan-fic news, there are a couple scenes which, regrettably, will put some wind back in the sails of the Harry/Hermione 'ship. Harry/Cedric slash (and, save us all, Harry/Voldemort) is also a likely beneficiary of the movie.

Ralph Fiennes, I should add, is no less compelling for lack of a nose (bluntly, he is a gorgeous gorgeous man despite the makeup department's best efforts). He brings some life (ha!) to the clunky-on-the-page Generic Evil Bad Guy taunting, and makes the big V a far more interesting villain than he is written to be.

14:21 / 18.11.05

Looking forward to this - thanks for the review.

And "Ralph Fiennes, I should add, is no less compelling for lack of a nose" is a terrific sentence.

Goodness Gracious Meme

00:24 / 19.11.05

3 words. No fucking quidditch.

Mike Newell, I love you.

they don't have to waste precious screen time on character-to-character explanations and can get right to what people want to see.

Agreed. This made a better job of GoF than Rowling's.

Enjoyed this alot. Different to Cuaron, and I think I like the 'liquidyness' of C's world better, but it's probably not actually that apt for GoF.

What's good in Newell's version is that the kids feel realistic, the awkwardness of asking someone you fancy out, jealousy amongst friends etc, all this is done well(far better than in ook), grounds the story, so when nasty things start happening to them, it's all the more shocking.

And there is nastiness. Violence is never far away in GoF.

Fiennes genuinely chilling, Tennant ace and too too brief (see also Jarvis Cocker, was that 3 seconds of screentime? Although given that he appeared to be dressed in Gene Simmons-sans makeup outfit, perhaps not a bad thing.) Miranda Richardson had me swooning at Rita Skeeter (while injecting more characterisation in 3 scenes than Rowling manages with umpteen descriptions of talon-like nails)

Ball very nicely done.

Lovely moment of Snape and Crouch. Snape lovely as ever, too brief. Moment where he shoots his cuffs before cuffing his students=GGMwobble.

Alot of plot reorganisation/cutting, most of which was to the good.

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