Everyone, remain calm, please step away from the monitor and do not rush. We have a link to the latest Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire picture. Yeah, sorry to disappoint you all, nothing that spectacular, but this does raise something interesting.
However, before that, check out the picture from Rope of Silicon showing Harry Snr and Rita Skeeter.
My girlfriend has read all the books and I bought her the DVD box set this year for christmas. So we watched all the movies, and they weren’t too bad (check out my own reviews). Since then I’ve been letting her know what’s been happening with the productions in the future movies, new Director, new writer, who is cast, etc.
“What are they going to do about Harry” she asked.
“I don’t know you’ve read the books!”
“No, I mean he’s already too old for the books. He’s only supposed to be aging a year each movie and the actors voice has already broken.”
Not being a Harry Potter fan that didn’t really bother me, but it was a good thought. For all the fans out there who are following the books it’s quite a big thing staying close to the original story, probably more so for J.K. Rowling than anyone. So what are they going to do?
I would have thought they are looking at changing the timelines of the movies, or maybe just glossing over the fact that he’s much older than he really is, and looks and sounds it! Surely they wouldn’t recast the main characters for the remaining movies, would they?
Personally, I can’t see them recasting him, that would be more of a shock to the audience than shifting the timeline and would glaringly hit those who hadn’t read the books as well as those that had. That would be hugely foolish and totally the wrong thing to do. Never mind the fact that the only cast member signed up for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is Jason Isaacs (Lucious Malfoy) and there isn’t anyone listed as signed for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, just an oversight, or contractual work in progress?
Yet would they? Would they risk changing him out? HP fans (I don’t mean sauce), what are your thoughts? Non HP fans too. Do you think they could recast him without much upset, or is a timeline shift or is clever post production called for? As a few have said before, if they can make a hobbit, they can make Daniel Radcliffe look younger!
