Azkaban Casting Rumor

[c_voth312 <divaclv@aol.com>]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Ali <Ali at z...>" <Ali at z...> wrote:
> 
> I do! I think that he would be a terrible choice. He might do the 
> gaunt, scary bit ok, but the handsome man who laughs and is 
fatherly? 
> I really can't see it. I'm worried already about what they might do 
> to the characters, plotlines etc of my favourite book. I think if 
> they did cast Richard O'Brien as Sirius that might be sufficient to 
> keep me away from the cinema.
> 
> Please no!

While casting O'Brien as Sirius probably won't prevent me from seeing 
the, I must say I'll be *very* dubious about the whole thing.  I 
can't think of him without calling up the image of that nasty lecher 
in "Ever After."  Not exactly the character type I'm looking for...

This is why the idea of Richard E. Grant as Sirius is beginning to 
appeal to me more and more--he can have that gaunt, ill-treated 
appearance and then bring out the passion and humor that Sirius must 
have once possessed, and probably still does somewhere inside.

~Christi, who WILL boycott the film if they do Dumbledore as a CGI 
image, and I don't care who else is cast in it....