[HPFGU-Movie] Casting the Other Films

[B.K. DeLong]

At 03:09 AM 11/28/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>Cornelius Fudge - Derek Jacobi

Too regal. Need someone who's more of a fuddy-duddy who thinks he's important.

>Professor Lupin - Sam Neill could play him but he's Austalian I think.
>Are Australians allowed? If not, then Pierce Brosnan or even Hugh
>Grant can fill the bill.

All those actors are too chiseled/good looking. Not that Lupin is nasty or 
anything but I still think Ralph Fiennes would be a better choice.

>Professor Karkaroff - Nigel Hawthorne

Nah...need someone a little younger....and Slavic. I think of Rade 
Serbedzija who played Boris 'The Blade/The Bullet Dodger' Yurinov  in the 
movie "Snatch".

>Madame Maxime - Juliette Binoche

Too young and way too petite. Madame Maxime is half-giant, after all and 
should be of similar age to the rest of the Hogwarts staff.

>Mad Eye Moody - Anthony Hopkins

Actually, someone suggested Billy Connolly. I recently saw the movie 
"Boondock Saints" where he has a small cameo as "Il Duche" or "The Duke". 
Just before he "cleaned up" he was the spitting image of how I pictured old 
Mad-Eye.

>Voldemort - Gary Oldman (It'll be good though to retain Ian Hart again)

Richard Bremmer is actually the "face" and voice of Voldemort in SS. I 
assume he'll be playing the role through the series.

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B.K. DeLong

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