Messrs M, W, P & P

[Theresa]

> In a message dated 6/26/04 8:25:19 PM, editor at t... writes:
> > From what I understand, she gave Cuaron a very general guidance, 
but was not involved on the sort of level that would have had 
her "approving" changes or
 being "convinced" of anything. Can anyone point me to someplace that 
shows
 she was a part of the development or production to this degree? 
Because if
 she wasn't, the "JKR allowed it" is not a valid support for this 
omission.
> > 
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, clshannon at a... wrote:
> From the Charlie Rose interview and also some magazine interviews 
(Premiere 
> for one), Cuaron said that her   input consisted of being consulted 
on things 
> he was planning on doing that weren't in her universe. She wouldn't 
actually 
> approve or disapprove, but she was diplomatic enough to say, 'that 
doesn't exist 
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ME: I saw this interview as well but one of the other things I 
thought of when agreeing with those saying she had input is if you 
watch the interview on the CoS DVD, it has JK and Steve Kloves and 
she talks about how they (the two of them) are working on the script 
for the third film. she mentions how they are emailing back and forth 
and are coming along nicely getting the script finished. Steve Kloves 
always states in interviews that she is his best resource. So at 
least as far as the script goes I think she has quite a bit of input. 
Now how the director wants to handle it, well I would say Cuaron in 
the above mentioned interview stated she told him yes and no on 
whether things would work a certain way. Still since she was 
surprised and got chills from some of the foreshadowing makes me 
wonder if she possibly didn't have as much input as the first film. 
Who knows but the fact she liked the film best of the 3 makes me feel 
loads better about liking the film.

Theresa