Casting Black & Lupin & Detail Changes

[Penny & Bryce]

Hi --

Barb wrote:

> It's interesting to see the debates about casting for future movies
> raising their heads (no, I did not say ugly) again.  Personally, I
> see Joseph Fiennes for Lupin and Daniel Day Lewis for Sirius Black,
> but no one else seems to. ::sigh::

In general I don't like to get into the fantasy casting stuff.  But, 
since you raised *exactly* the 2 actors I have in mind for those roles, 
I will chime in.  Absolutely no one but Day-Lewis seems right for Black 
as far as I'm concerned.  That's Carole's choice also.  <g>  And, Joseph 
*or* Ralph Fiennes for Lupin is perfect.  I mentioned those 2 as 
possible Lupins to my movie-going buddy this past weekend in fact & she 
gave this a big thumbs-up.

Michael re: the changes to small details:

> The
> changes are so small they do not any real effect,
> positive or negative, and/or it would have taken an
> equal amount of effort to leaving things as they were
> in the book, leaving one to wonder why anyone bothered
> to changing it. Again, there are some changes,
> additions, etc. that I thought were brilliant (Dudley
> stomping on the steps is one), but the details should
> have been kept.

Yes, some of these detail changes left me shaking my head in bafflement. 
*Why* change it from a Greek chappie to an Irish chappie?  *Why*?

Penny