Richard Harris in 3rd movie?

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Chocobo" <boredchocobo at a...> wrote:
> From IMDB.com:

Chocobo:
> 
> "Richard Harris may play Dumbledore yet again in the next Harry
Potter movie, Prisoner of Azkaban, even though he died on Oct. 25, the
London Sun is reporting. The newspaper said that the producers intend
to use digital technology to superimpose Harris's face over Harry
Robinson, his stand-in for the first two films. ...snip...
>
> Sounds like a bunch of nonsense to be. ...snip...
> 
> It would be pretty strange if it did work out though. Long-dead
actors could keep appearing in new movies...
>
>Chocobo

bboy_mn comments:

Actually, it's already been done. An advertising agency resurected
some  very famous dead American actors to make commercials. The one
that I remember seeing was Fred Astaire (of the famous movie and stage
dance team Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) doing a vacuum cleaner
commerial. It was a clip from one of his movies and his partner had
been replace by a vacuum cleaner; really sad. Some of these included
the original actors voice speaking line that the actor surely never
spoke in his lifetime.

These were an interesting curiousity, but they weren't very well
received. Most people thought it cheapened the image of a great actor,
to reduce him to a digital ghost selling vacuum cleaners. I agree. Let
the dead rest in peace.

Personally, I would rather they took all that money and special
effects effort, and gave us an extra Quidditch game. 

There are many actors that can play Dumbledore successfully. I have a
feeling that they got R.Harris to do this job cheap, but now that they
have a billion dollar fanchise, any new actor is going to want a
bigger  piece of the pie. 

I think at some point we are going to have to accept that some of the
actors aren't going to be there. We know that Tom Felton is ready to
take his 'gap year' and go to the university afterwards, so he'll be
gone after PoA. And there is no guarantee that the other actors will
want to continue when the time comes, or that the studio will want
them once they start losing the babyface cuteness. 

So, as difficult as it would be to accept a new Dumbledore, I think
it's the practical thing to do.

Just a few thoughts.

bboy_mn