MOVIE: NEWS: Book three script and TWO book four movies?

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., John Walton <john at w...> wrote:
> Problem is, we don't KNOW that it's a subplot! Don't forget, JKR 
has laid
> enough of a trail for us in previous books that SPEW and Bagman 
could very
> well be very important indeed
> 
> --John

The Bagman plot was just plain annoying, which was the reason I argue 
for its elimination.
But I think if they are going to make GoF into a movie, they HAVE to 
cut stuff that are not important to GoF's conclusion itself.  I was 
one of those who favoured moving the snake scene to CoS and tend to 
think that each movie should be made as self-contained as possible.

Two movies is possible -- the good place to make the chop would be 
just after the Pensieve when Dumbledore said 'Good luck with The 
Third Task.'  That would be a cliffhanger as we go into the 
intermission and there would still be at least 250 pages to go.  
Running time would be about four and a half hours altogether -- may 
even be longer than Lawrence of Arabia or Apocalypse now (the redux 
version).