GoF kids movie?

[Anne]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Regan" <timregan at m...> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> --- Sara wrote: 
> > I'm honestly still wondering how on earth they're going to be 
able 
> > to make a "G or PG" rated film out of GOF, given the last scenes 
> in 
> > the book (with dismemberment, Cedric's death & very unpleasant 
> > people in masks threatening Harry).
> 
> 
> Me too, and I think that's especially true for an American 
audience. 
> Men hiding their identity by wearing hoods, so that they can scare, 
> torture, and kill those they consider of subhuman blood has a more 
> recent history here in the Klu Klux Klan. That will be extremely 
> difficult to tackle in a kids movie.
> 

Yes, this is a very large problem with the way Warner Brothers has 
positioned this series. They bought the rights (I assume) without 
knowing exactly what JKR would write in the next 6 books, just as 
none of us who read PS/SS could know what she would write. Now that 
they are seeing (I hope against all hope they are actually reading 
OotP now) exactly how dark this series is becoming, I bet the Big 
Enchiladas there are scratching their heads and saying, "holy beeping 
beep, there's no way we can continue to market this as a kids' 
series." That's if they are honest with themselves and have any 
interest in maintaining the integrity of the story. However, if they 
continue to use Steve Kloves as the screen writer (IF they manage to 
get past GoF) I foresee these movies being horribly dumbed down and 
sanitized, rather than facing up to the angsty issues involved with 
Voldy's return and Angry!Harry. I'm not really looking forward to the 
movie adaptation of OotP... it could be scarily bad...

Anne U
(who thinks Dan Radcliffe COULD play Angry!Harry...he's not even 14 
yet, his hormones haven't kicked into high gear... but since he's 
such a basically decent and well-adjusted kid, it might be a severe 
stretch)