Ain't It Cool News is reporting from a press junket surrounding the Order of the Phoenix release that producers wanted to cut a certain character from the movie. Upon hearing the news, J.K. Rowling suggested that they might not want to make a cut, saying that if they made a seventh movie, "they would have their hands tied."
I'm still muddling through Goblet of Fire at the moment, so I'm wooly on who might be cut from five that would be important in seven. AICN is conjecturing that it might be Bellatrix, which I think is a good guess. From interviews with Helen Bonham Carter, it would seem that her roll in the film has been reduced to less than 15 minutes on screen and roughly five lines. His other speculations included Luna and Grawp, but Luna's got far too much weight in five to be cut. Hmmm...I'll have to consider this when rereading.
Update: After further consideration, I'm betting on Kreacher. Bellatrix is too important, particularly to the end of the movie. And Kreacher, while most readers would argue is essential to the plot of the book, is expendable in the film world. They've dispensed with elements that create the logic of the story before (explaining the Maurauders, Winky, etc.) in favor of glossing over the whys onscreen.
Also, I haven't seen any production stills of Kreacher, whereas casting Luna involved thousands of girls in two different casting sessions, and Bellatrix was cast twice, as their first choice got pregnant and pulled out of the film. Even Grawp has been announced for some time. But Kreacher has been mysteriously absent, and while expendable from five and even six, it would be hard to sudddenly explain the house elf Harry owns in book seven. So there's my vote.
Friday, June 22, 2007
Hallowed Clue?
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That's a puzzler, hmmm. Luna's in so many of the print ads, so I'd rule her out. If it is Bellatrix, I have to say that's a shame they'd even consider losing Helen Bonham Carter. Bad enough that her screen time's been cut.
Kreacher is a good guess. Although I'm kind of surprised Grawp even made the cut to begin with. That plot seemed fairly secondary? At least for now.
Grawp is a possibility. That story line is a little bit complicated, and they tend to trim out anything that has to be explained too much. But the actors playing him and Kingsely Shacklebolt were among the first announced.
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