movie DVD

[caliburncy at yahoo.com]

Not much time to interact at the moment, sadly, but I did want to add 
this:

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., Maria <maryblue67 at y...> wrote:
> So i thought: i read somewhere that up to 4 hours of film
> had been shot, but they had to reduce it to 2 and a
> half,for obvious reasons. Couldn't we start a petition or
> something to get a cool DVD, with all the additional scenes
> (Peeves, Norbert etc...)

There are two issues here:

1) Columbus confirmed in an interview that there never was a four 
hour version; that was just a rumor.  And another interview seemed to 
imply that the two and a half hour final version was barely cut at 
all for length, so there may not be as much extra footage as we think 
(except the usual alternate (canned) takes and that kind of thing).

2) Presumably they never filmed the additional scenes for Norbert, 
because the script itself would've had that scene taken out.  As for 
the scene with Peeves, Columbus said the reason he cut it was not 
because of length but because he wasn't happy with the special 
effects--so he may not want to put that in the DVD either.

Of course, the standards of journalism surrounding the HP movie are 
not exactly at their highest, so any of the things I've said above 
may be proved wrong tomorrow.  :-)

On the bright side, I do expect they will put in as many extras on 
the DVD release as is humanly possible, because that has definitely 
been the trend the industry is moving toward.  So I think we can 
expect some new stuff of one sort or another.

-Luke