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

[Megan]

No: HPFGUIDX 28170

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Cindy C." <cynthiaanncoe at h...> wrote:
What we need is for someone (Amy 
> Z, are you there?) to do a fabulous essay of all of the plotlines in 
> GoF.
> 
> I guess I'm willing to be persuaded on the two-movies idea, but I'm 
> still leaning toward one, bare-bones movie.  You're right that if you 
> take out everything that isn't central to the main plot line, you 
> save a lot of pages, but you lose gems like The Egg and the Eye, 
> which is one of the most clever chapters in the series, IMHO.  That 
> would really hurt.

(Ooo, this kind of ties into the previous POA debate/analysis)  Could
be a very interesting essay, I imagine ;-).  I'm hard-pressed to even
SEE a GOF movie, quite frankly.  WB is pushing COS just to get it down
before the trio "matures" in real life.  They have also stated it's
basically impossible to do seven movies in seven years.  How far do
you really think it will last?  PERSONALLY, I think it should stop at
the first movie (get the people hooked, read the book, then want to
read the series!)--but obviously that is not going to happen :-D. (Of
course, POA would be a DREAM to watch on screeen)  Somehow I can see
WB executives exhausting the script for a potential GOF movie,
throwing their hands up in the air, and finally saying--"No matter how
we do it, it wouldn't be as great as the first three--let's stop
here!" (never mind contract deals--LOL!)  One can only hope perhaps
JKR will put her foot down here. <g>

-Megan (wishing US theatres would get the preview-dates that the
British have caught onto)
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