GoF kids movie?

[susanbones2003]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Anne" <anneu53714 at s...> wrote:
> --- 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)

Hi,
Sorry to be posting this so late. Been in the other list and it's 
still hectic there. But what I wanted to say was how in the Sam Hill 
will OOP be a movie? It doesn't seem to have the beginning, middle, 
end type of thing Warner would like it to. It's inconclusive, lots of 
things are up in the air, it's not funny much of the time, in fact, 
it's got far too much shouting for a normal movie!! Apologies if this 
part has been brought up. Never mind the "darkness" of it. It is a 
different book all together. Not neat or tidy and very little warmth. 
What's a huge conglomerate movie company to do?
Jennifer (used to be JenD but am metamophosing)