Movie News

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 3612

Hi, all. I lifted the following from my weekly Alan Rickman newsletter.
She's pretty reliable, so I thought I'd pass it along.

--Amanda

1. HARRY POTTER UPDATE (ALAN RICKMAN AS SNAPE - IT'S
GOING TO HAPPEN!)

On 13th October, 2000, The Harry Potter Movie Website
announced that Alan Rickman is definitely confirmed
(again) as to star as Snape in the Harry Potter movie
(in production). Their brief comment is:

" In other casting news, Alan Rickman is DEFINITELY
playing Snape, although he has not, as of yet,
appeared on the set."

Previously, the Harry Potter Movie Website had listed
Alan Rickman as one of the many rumoured actors to be
starring in this film. Indeed, at time of writing,
they not updated the online cast of Harry Potter to
reflect his confirmed status. You can read the full
article at:
http://harrypotter.eqrealm.com/news/101300a.html

At present, the last few weeks have seen the Harry
Potter film crew and cast popping up all over the UK
filming the exterior scenes for the movie. However,
the time is fast approaching when they will begin
filming the scenes at "Hogwarts..." and that's where
Snape enters Harry's life...

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There has, of course, been  a lot of confusion over
whether Alan Rickman will play Snape or not . Alan
Rickman and Richard Harris were both confirmed by CNN
on August 23rd as having signed onto star in the film,
but since then, Richard Harris has very publicly
pulled out after a collapse in negotiations over the
form of payment he would get for his role in the film.
And yet, newswire services such as Reuters, still
report Richard Harris as starring in the film as a
recent (8/10/00) article in the Daily Express
proves... You can read the article at (it's not
reproduced here as it has no real bearing on this
newsletter):

http://www.lineone.net/express/00/10/08/features/f0500-d.html

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In unrelated Harry Potter news, the British newspaper,
The Evening Chronicle (Newcastle)  12/10/00), has
reported that The Northern Film Commission hopes the
recent filming in the North East of England will
attract more films and tourists to the area (Eds Note:
Recently, the HP crew have been filming the Hogwarts
Station scenes in Yorkshire). Who said the movie
industry doesnt have a positive impact???!!
(Thank you, Georgiana for that little titbit).

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