[HPFGU-Movie] Referendum on the Director

[Susanne Schmid]

  cindysphynx <cindysphynx at home.com> wrote: 
>Chris Columbus is directing CoS.  So far as I know, he has not signed 
>on officially to direct PoA or GoF.  So it is still an open question.

>And that is my question.  If you were the producer of PoA and GoF, 
>and the only information you had to go on was his work in PS/SS, 
>would you hire Columbus for PoA, GoF, both, or neither?


Tricky question,because I don't know how exactly things work in that business. Who is responsible for hiring the script writer? I don't think it's the director, or is it? The person I would fire immediately anyway is the scriptwriter who did a very poor job. Maybe I'd keep Columbus for the CoS movie, but then I'd certainly hire somebody else.

<snip>
>4.  He is not very good at deciding what to keep and what to cut, 
>which will be critical in the next two films.  Keeping Norbert and 
>the Troll wasn't wise given the important things that were deleted.  
>If JKR "wouldn't let him" cut certain things, then we need a director 
>who can be a bit more persuasive.


This is definitely true: Why keep e.g. the chocolate frogs? Their only purpose was to  provide the cards, but HRH discovered Flamel's identity in a different way, so the frogs could have been completely cut. Same goes for the Every flavour Beans. (Unless, of course, JKR disclosed to Columbus that Voldemort is going to die in book 7 because he chokes on a chocolate frog) 


<snip>
>7.  My biggest overall gripe about the movie was the lack of 
>continuity.  Since PoA and GoF are much bigger books, I would think 
>the continuity problems will be much more pronounced if Columbus also 
>brings them to the screen.  In other words, if he can't do PS/SS as a 
>movie that stands up on its own merits without knowledge of the 
>books, then how can he possibly do it with books that are hundreds of 
>pages longer?


Which again suggests that we should fire him together with the script writer. Given the success of movie 1, maybe a lot more directors would be willing to jump on that winning train (d'you think Ford Coppola would do Poa and GoF- thinking of his amazing "Dracula", not to mentnion other dark, angsty films???)

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Susanna/pigwidgeon37


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