Dream casting for HP and OT: Winona Ryder (was: Little Women)

[Joanne Collins]

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This is more OT than not, but there is one *very* vaguely relevant part.
Maybe this should be moved to OTChatter? I will go and sign up there ASAP.

>Well, I like Noni (I'm a sucker for those big eyes I guess), and think she
>made a much better Jo than June Allison; 

Actually, my favourite Jo is Katharine Hepburn in the old b&w version, and
I don't think anyone can hold a candle to Kate in anything. Kate *is* the
Jo I saw while growing up (and I actually didn't see her version till I was
a legal adult).

The dream casting would be to get Kate into the HP movies somewhere,
somehow, someway, but I think she has retired now, and there's also the
British thing. But wouldn't she make a wonderful older witch?

but then I'm a Gen-X-er, and so
>liking Noni is almost required by law.  :)

I think I'm a Gen-X-er too. I like her in some of her movies (I think she
was brilliant in The Age Of Innocence and I adored Heathers), but when
she's not good, she's *really* not good. Actually, she wasn't awful as Jo,
just not right, in my eyes. For a movie no one was good in (so it's not
really her fault) try Autumn In New York.

>(Oh dear, I've just made a good argument
>against expecting much from the Harry Potter movie, haven't I?)

Er...yes, you have. Still, I think, if we don't expect much and it turns
out to be really wonderful, then we'll be pleasantly surprised. If it turns
out to be average, we'll be unshocked, and if it turns out bad, we won't be
surprised at all (actually, I think it's more likely to be average than
anything else).

>The only movie adaptation of a children's book I've really liked is
>_Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_, but then in that
>case the original author wrote the screenplay!

Well, that would probably help. But isn't JKR really involved in the movie
process? That can only be good for the movie(s?), can't it?

I have to say, I agree on Willy Wonka. Wonderful movie.

Joanne.