[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Somethings going to be cut from PoA

[Kriselda Jarnsaxa]

Tracie recently mentioned:

>The Potter movies are a major money maker.  They can make them as
>long as they want.  The studio and the theater owners know that no
>matter how long the Potter movies are, people will flock to see
>them, and more then once.  It's the same with LOTR, those movies are
>3 hours long.  POA could very well be that long, altho more children
>will be going to that then LOTR, so that is a consideration I
>suppose.
>
>This brings up the length of GOF and OotP.  Both books were twice as
>long as their three predesessors.  So, I am assuming those movies
>will have to be at least 3 hours long, or suffer severly under the
>hatchet.  Which I would hate to see.

There has been talk about making GOF as 2 separate movies that would be 
released about a month or so apart.  It looks like there will actually be a 
precedent for that kind of release set prior to GOF even starts filming - 
Quintin Tarentino's next movie, "Kill Bill", is apparently quite long and 
Tarentino isn't willing to cut it any further, so plans currently are to 
release IT in two parts about a month apart, so that people will go, see 
the first half, and then go back again later to see the rest.  IF it goes 
over well, I suspect it's even more likely that GOF and OOP will be handled 
that way, rather than trying to cram as much content as they can into a 
single film.



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