[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Harry Potter Movies In Trouble In the Long Run

[Katze]

cindysphynx wrote:

<munch ... munch ... yummy!>
> If I were the producer (Ha!), I would want to add a few months to the
> CoS filming schedule, stretch out CoS post-production until Summer
> 2003 or thereafter, and then get myself a new director for PoA and
> GoF to give the films a fresh look.  And as I've said many times, I
> would do GoF as one film to avoid saturating the market with two GoF
> films one month apart.
> 
> Cindy (offering her services to produce a solid three-hour screenplay
> for GoF, and proposing as a first step that the QWC be dropped
> entirely for the GoF movie)

I'm not sure what's going to happen to the franchise. Will it still be
as strong in 8 years? I dunno...could be. I'd be willing to see the
movies, provided my decision will be based on the previous movie. I
won't pass up PoA or GoF. Actually..I'm not sure I'd pass up any of
them, because I'd like to see them on the big screen. I wonder though,
if my opinion would change had I read the books before I saw the movie. 

My opinion is that they should've done a tv movie mini-series. The
sci-fi channel, here in the states, did a 6 hour mini-series for Dune.
It's the only way that book could've been done appropriately. It was
excellent! Sci-fi has now taken on the task of doing the Dune sequels,
as well as producing a mini-series for Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea trilogy.
They are excellent productions.

I would be in heaven if they did that type of production for Harry
Potter. Especially with Goblet of fire. But I'm not the one who's paying
for it ;-)

-Katze