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• Brendan Gleeson will play Defense Against The Dark Arts Teacher Mad-Eye Moody. (CBBC Newsround)
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• Kate Winslet is in talks for a role as a French character. (Empire Online)
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• It seems that a two-and-a-half-hour version of Goblet of Fire isn't enough for some Potter fans. More than 1,200 of them have signed a petition to Warner Bros. demanding a movie that's between three and a half and four hours long, so as to not leave out a single plot twist. Wizard News reports that a four-hour flick, with an intermission, could happen. (Jeannette Walls' The Scoop, The Movie Box, Sunday Mail)
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• Mike Newell is in preliminary talks to direct. (The Hollywood Reporter)
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• Release Date: November 18, 2005
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• Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Robbie Coltrane, Brendan Gleeson, Frances de la Tour</font>

[ 06-13-2004, 09:34 AM: Message edited by: Larry_OHF ]

I dont have any rumours, but Id just like to say that the your third rumour is crazy! (although true) I mean, can anyone really be assed going to a cinema for 4 hours!? You would certainly get a case of NB there. (no prizes for figuring out NB [img]tongue.gif[/img] )

There are a number of old classics that had the same "long movie with intermission" format: Gone with the Wind, 2001: A Space Odyssey, etc. Considering how long the books keep getting, that might be the best way to do it.

I personally have NOTHING against a 4 hour Harry Potter movie, who cares, the longer the better, as long as they dont miss history plots.

Mike Newell Director

Brendon Gleeson as Mad-Eye Moody

Frances de la Tour as Madam Maxime

Kate Winslet as a French Character ?

[ 06-13-2004, 11:30 PM: Message edited by: Larry_OHF ]

I want 6 hours! SIX HOURS! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

<font color=pink>*shrug* If you think about it, RotK was 3.5 hours without previews, ect., so anyone who sat through that...with no intermission! could sit through a 4 hour HP movie

The french character is the chick Ron gets a crush on...whats her name...well whatever it was I don't see Kate Winslet as the woman for that part

I'm looking forward to several things in this movie...the Quidditch world cup, the winter ball, and the tournament aspects. The longer the better!</font>

The 3rd Harry Potter movie deviates the farthest from the book, but does it in intelligent ways. ( Unlike the 2nd which did it in unintelligent ways ) However a couple of gripes continue from the first and second movies.

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• The absence of Peeves is sorely felt. He is the comic relief of the book.</font>
• Quidditch is an illogical game in the book. In the movies with no penalties and no rules its absolutely ludicrous.</font>

A few things in the third I wish they had though....

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• Neville Longbottom screws up majorly.</font>
• Harry casting the patronus at Malfoy ( dressed as a dementor ) in the second quiditch match.</font>
• Snape's reaction and subsequent hissy fit upon learning that Black escaped.</font>

As for the fourth movie, I expect the series to go PG-13. The murder and the rather vicious fight that follows at the end ( which is important to the plot ) will be quite hard to sugar-coat to a PG rating.

[ 06-17-2004, 10:28 AM: Message edited by: booklord ]

<font color=skyblue>Time to update this thread.

Rita Skeeter, Pleased to meetcha.

Harry and ...RON???

Harry and Hermione

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I wonder how well this one will translate to a movie. I have recently read the books and I saw the third movie the other day. I found the first half all a bit rushed as they tried to set up the last hour where all the real action was in a way that made sense to people who hadn't read the book. So with a book that was twice as long, I am very unsure how they will manage to fit all the important stuff in without it being just as rushed and confusing. And it's different to the third one where there is action continuously throughout the book, rather than a lot of set-up and then one big action sequence at the end.

And I really doubt Kate Winslet would play that French chick - she is far too old!