Spielberg on Potter

[macloudt at yahoo.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 26268

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., mellienel2 at y... wrote:
> --- 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!!
> 
By no means M!  I thought the very same thing.  The first book didn't 
touch him creatively?  Pardon the expression, but *bullocks*.  We all 
have our favourite book out of the existing four, but is there anyone 
who actually *dislikes* one of the books if they like the other 
three?  To my innocent mind the books are too similar for this to 
happen. 

Speilberg has seen the attention the movie is getting, and now he's 
sulking.  I agree that *any* HP book he'd make into a movie would be 
utterly unrecognizable, and would probably have no British element to 
it at all.  No offence to anyone, but a Hogwarts set in rural Kansas 
just wouldn't have the same effect.

Speilberg, go grab your teddie and blankie and mope in a corner, ya 
sore loser!

Mary Ann
(smirking in an irritable manner)