Lasting Power of HP Movies?

[alhewison]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "draco382" <draco382 at y...> wrote:
> Hello, I don't usually post (I mostly lurk) but I was just curious 
> about something.  Did anyone feel that they wouldn't want to see 
> anymore than the first three books made into movies?  I asked a few 
> of my friends and I was surprised to hear them most of them say 
that 
> they really didn't even want to see book three made into a movie.  
> Do you think "Harry Potter - the Movie Franchise" has lasting power?
> It might still be a little too early to say,

I confess to being worried about the rest of the series being made 
into films. In my opinion Warner Bros "dummed down" PS/SS and 
definitely orientated it towards the children market. They couldn't 
do that with either POA or GOF without losing the esssence of the 
books, which means they would have to adapt quite a bit. I'm not 
saying they can't, but I'm slightly scared about the end result.

Whilst I have watched PS ad nauseam and *love* it, I don't actually 
think it's a brilliant film, and I would hate a *bad* film to be made 
of any of the HP books. I would certainly be very upset if they 
changed any of the major characters. In short I personally would 
rather they made no film than a bad one. At the moment though, HP has 
been so successful that it still seems to have enough mileage for at 
least a 3rd film.

On another subject, Darkmark.com note that Newsround have again 
repeated that Book 5 is likely to come out at the end of this year.
(June 3) As Newsround is the BBC's children news which has often had 
access to good accurate info on HP, I certainly want to believe this.

Ali