[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Radcliffe and Felton

[Katze]

I don't understand why people are getting paranoid about this. One element of 
watching movies is to susepnd your disbelief.

Int he books Ron is supposed to be taller than Harry, so I don't know why people 
are upset by this. Daniel is a bit bigger than Harry in the books, but come on!

I've always felt, and got the impression from the children that it's up to the 
children if they want to stay in the role. If they do, then there'd be no reason 
to recast. I think it' smore likley that the kids will want to do something else 
rather than the production companies wanting to get rid of them. I'm more 
willing to accept a child that is not quite the right height or slighlty older, 
but been in the role since day one, than a brand new child..

Here in the states we've had numerous shows where 20 somethings play teenagers 
(BH 90210?). A kids who's 17 looks almost the same as an adult who is 21. So I 
think Daniel and kids making movies when they are 19/20 playing 17/18 years olds 
isn't going to be aproblem, unless they don't want to do it.

The only age problem that I see is if we have to wait another 3 years for the 
next book, and another 3 yeras for the final book. That might cause a problem. 
But even then - Danial/Ruper/Emma will about around 19/20 at the time, provided 
that they make the movies yearly.

I worry about that size of the books though. They may just stop making them. GoF 
is rumored to be made into two movies, and with the size of OotP, they'll 
probably have to do the same. By all means, I have no problem watching 2 movies 
for 1 book, but how many people want to do HP for the next 10 years?

Katze


Nia  wrote:
> Audra wrote:
>  
> 
>>Maybe I missed a thread, but is there any evidence that The Powers 
> 
> That Be plan on recasting Harry and Draco for "Goblet of Fire"?
> 
> Me:
>  I have heard nothing to that effect.  It would seem, however, if 
> they were that concerned with the actors' height, Rupert Grint, who 
> is fully six inches taller than Daniel would be their target.  Since 
> all of the children are near or at the average heights for their 
> ages, I can only speculate that since there are no scandals 
> surrounding the trio, and they are kept, for the most part out of 
> that wretched limelight, this entire age issue is a way of having 
> something to say about them.  Frankly, the story is becoming a bit 
> tired.  Daniel is not only a perfect Harry, but he is a wonderful 
> role model and a spendid emissary for promoting the movies. 
> 
> The children mesh very well on screen and they have a very large fan 
> following.  It would be quite daft of the studio to look for 
> replacements, especially since they would have to find children that 
> looked very similar to Dan, Rupert and Emma, had their on-screen 
> chemistry and that were the height of the trio last time we saw them 
> on screen.  If worse comes to worse, they can always digitally 
> shorten them.  Although I signed the petition, just in case, it 
> doesn't seem like a rational move to replace any of the kids unless, 
> like Felton, they expressed a desire to leave.
> --Nia