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Potter Franchise should take a page from LOTR Book

BrooklynKnight

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I think that the Harry Potter movie franchise would best be served to film Order of the Phoenix and The Half-Blood Prince at the same time.

Fan sites and movie reviewers are constantly speculating about the possiblities of the original actors being cut due to aging. If this is a real risk, the best solution would be to simply film 5 and 6 together before some of the older cast (like Rupert Grint/Ron Weasley) from having to be cut due to age.

Although he's the only actor of the primary 3 with the largest risk (he'll be 17/18 when filming on OoTP starts) to be cut, it would be terrible to break apart the original 3.

Some of the magic of the Harry Potter movies is that there arent many visual diffrence that remind you you're watching a series of movies between each sequal. The actors all remain the same. If you change a primary (or even favorable supporting) actor you kinda jar a viewer out of that "place" and force them to start speculating on the changes.

Though Book 7 obviously cannot be filmed yet considering its not complete, 5 and 6 can and should be. Which should give the actors a decent vacation before filming 7. Additionally it would reduce the age diffrence of the actors to their characters for all 3 books.

Could a 21 year old Rupert really pass for a 17 year old Ron? Look at the guy that played Viktor Krum? He was HUGE! That guy was way older then 17 heh.
 

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I don't see the big problem, really. What, because we're not used to seeing teenage
characters played by much older actors? Pff.

I always find it weird when I see actual teens playing teens in movies. That's how
distorted my suspension of disbelief has become!
 
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I believe Mrs. Rowling is okay with the whole age thing. A while back, and I might be wrong, that she was glad that the movie characters will reflect the feel of the aging process of growth for the novel characters. Although there will be a difference in feel, she is okay with it. And Daniel R. was at one point, ready to walk away. But I guess, after speaking with his family, movie manager, Mrs. Rowling...he has change his mind, and will finish the entire run.

Folks, we are looking at history here...the same actors finishing a entire run of a series, is unheard of.

And you know, when book #7 is done, that is it. And on that day, I will watch all of them, back to back...
 


Taelorn76 said:
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The key word is actors. One star being in every film in a series has been done before. Heck, until the new Star Trek movies it was done by a whole main cast. It's actually not terribly historic in general but it is impressive because of the ages of the people involved.
 

John Crichton said:
The key word is actors. One star being in every film in a series has been done before.

I knew someone would play that card.

I play my cast of LoTR card, with a booster card blocking the "The movies were all filmed at the same time" card ;)
 


Hey, what he said... :o

John Crichton said:
The key word is actors. One star being in every film in a series has been done before. Heck, until the new Star Trek movies it was done by a whole main cast. It's actually not terribly historic in general but it is impressive because of the ages of the people involved.
 

Viking Bastard said:
I don't see the big problem, really. What, because we're not used to seeing teenage
characters played by much older actors? Pff.

I always find it weird when I see actual teens playing teens in movies. That's how
distorted by suspension of disbelief has become!

I believe that the most famous case of this was the show Beverly Hills 90210, which was supposed to be about teenagers, but most of the cast were in their late-20s or early-30s. :)
 

Truth Seeker said:
Folks, we are looking at history here...the same actors finishing a entire run of a series, is unheard of.
Maybe not in English cinema. But Wakayama Tomisaburo played Ogami Itto in all six Lone Wolf and Cub films. And Katsu Shintaro played Zatoichi in like, twenty films or something. That's just Japan.

History. Pfft.
 

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