Spielberg on Potter

[mellienel2 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 26236

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., eggplant107 at h... wrote:
> Steven Spielberg didn't want to direct the first Harry Potter movie 
> but now he says this: 
> 
> "That first story didn't touch me creatively, Now the third Harry 
> Potter book...It's pure genius! Much darker, more esoteric and 
> interesting to me personally. If they'd offered me that, I'd have 
> said yes."
> 
> Asked if we might still see a Harry Potter movie directed by 
> Spielberg he said
> "That's right,you never know.'

Am I the only one with the childish sentiment:

FINDER'S KEEPERS, LOSERS WEEPERS!!

Now, he wants to direct it? And have it look like A.I., turn Harry 
into some Freudian Poster Boy? Turn JKR's world into some inescapable 
evil, not to mention what he'll do to Voldy himself?

No. He cannot have this. This is not his, he didn't want it, and now 
that he sees how much money he's missing out on, he's changing his 
tune. Well, sorry, man. If Chris Columbus pulls htis movie off, the 
rest of the series is his for the taking...that is, if he wants it, 
which i sincerely hope he does. 

I guess I just don't like the idea of HP being *anyone*'s second 
choice.

Especially to a ratty movie like A.I.

M.
who is slightly perturbed at the idea of RoboPotter