Fiennes to Play Voldemort in Next 'Potter'

[Bearcat729]

Of course now Robbie Coltrane says he doesn't know how much longer he'd be able to play Hagrid



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040805/ap_on_en_mo/film_harry_potter_cast_1


Fiennes to Play Voldemort in Next 'Potter'

2 hours, 42 minutes ago

By ANTHONY BREZNICAN, AP Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES - He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has been named. Ralph Fiennes (news), who played memorable evil guys in "Red Dragon" and "Schindler's List," has signed on to portray the wicked warlock Voldemort in the next "Harry Potter (news - web sites)" movie, Warner Bros. announced Wednesday.


Voldemort is so bad that the magical characters in author J.K. Rowling's stories do their best not to speak his name aloud.

In the first three installments of the saga, a deadly magic spell meant for a baby Harry Potter backfired and deprived him of a body. So only his spirit wrought havoc in "The Sorcerer's Stone," "The Chamber of Secrets" and the recent "Prisoner of Azkaban."

But Voldemort finally returns in the flesh in part four: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."

Filming has been under way on "Goblet" since June 25, mainly with star Daniel Racliffe as the boy-wizard, and co-stars Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as his pals Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Fiennes has not yet filmed any scenes.

Other additions to the cast include Brendan Gleeson ("Troy," "The Village" and "Cold Mountain") as Potter's new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, the fearsome Mad-Eye Moody, and Miranda Richardson, ("The Crying Game," "Sleepy Hollow") as Rita Skeeter, a gossip columnist for a magical newspaper.

The cast also includes Robert Pattinson as Hogwarts student Cedric Diggory, Stanislav Ianevski as Quidditch star Viktor Krum, French actress Clemence Poesy as the heart-fluttering visiting student Fleur Delacour, and Katie Leung as Potter's love-interest and Quidditch rival Cho Chang.

"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," directed by "Four Weddings and a Funeral" filmmaker Mike Newell, is scheduled for theatrical release in November 2005.

[Logan]

I'm really looking forward to this movie. Both for the actual story, and to see how they fit this monster into one movie.

EDIT: I thought I would check to see what the actress to play Fleur looks like, to see if she is as hot as I imagined her when reading the book. No pictures on IMDB, but a quick search brought about her (soon to be opened) home page.

This link is NOT WORK SAFE. It is a simple page that has a bunch of innocent pics, but as you scroll down, it shows topless shots of her in some movie (I'm guessing).

hxxp://www.clemencepoesy.com/

[Buccaneer]

Thanks, lots of good information.

What's the latest scoop on the Half-Blood Prince? I've heard rumours that it is Neville, by process of elimination. Do you think he's a major enough character to carry a book? My impression from OotP was that his "magical" remake as a powerful wizard was just for continuity and needing a known body to help out. If not him, then whom?

[GrantDawg]

Thanks, lots of good information.

What's the latest scoop on the Half-Blood Prince? I've heard rumours that it is Neville, by process of elimination. Do you think he's a major enough character to carry a book? My impression from OotP was that his "magical" remake as a powerful wizard was just for continuity and needing a known body to help out. If not him, then whom?
Neville is not a half-blood.

[Buccaneer]

Hagrid then?

[ISiddiqui]

Hagrid won't be it either. I bet it refers to Godric Gryffindor.

[terpkristin]

http://www.hpana.com
It has a link to their "info site" on Book 6 and all the latest in the world of HP.

One other consideration is Seamus Finnegan or whoever it was that said in book 1 that he was "down for Eton" before getting accepted to Hogwarts...he might be the "half blood prince," given that rich folks and royalty often go to Eton (Princes William and Henry...)

~tk

[Franklinnoble]

I'm really looking forward to this movie. Both for the actual story, and to see how they fit this monster into one movie.

EDIT: I thought I would check to see what the actress to play Fleur looks like, to see if she is as hot as I imagined her when reading the book. No pictures on IMDB, but a quick search brought about her (soon to be opened) home page.

This link is NOT WORK SAFE. It is a simple page that has a bunch of innocent pics, but as you scroll down, it shows topless shots of her in some movie (I'm guessing).

hxxp://www.clemencepoesy.com/
Dude, seriously, you should get a medal for this or something.

That gal isn't exactly the beauty queen I would have expected for the role, but she has an outstanding figure...

[GrantDawg]

I think it will end up being a new student and not someone already introduced. Someone possibily from the royal family of a European nation?

[Celeval]

I'm with ISidd, money on Gryffindor. Not that he is half-blood, because I doubt it - but that he was champion of such.

[Tigercat]

I think it will end up being a new student and not someone already introduced. Someone possibily from the royal family of a European nation?


I was thinking maybe some kind of royal wizarding lineage we havent heard about. Perhaps there was once a royal family of the wizarding world? Perhaps there is one today, but it means so little its never mentioned?

It being Neville makes no sense, because it had to be something that would have made sense as a unrelated plot line in book 2. I think it would have effected too many future plots if Neville was some kind of "Prince"

[spleen1015]

I think it is Hagrid. JKR said she was going to name the 2nd book this, but decided 6 was a better place for it. She talked a very little about Hagrid's background in CoS. I think she removed the meaty parts regarding Half Blood Prince.

[Bearcat729]

I was thinking maybe some kind of royal wizarding lineage we havent heard about. Perhaps there was once a royal family of the wizarding world? Perhaps there is one today, but it means so little its never mentioned?

It being Neville makes no sense, because it had to be something that would have made sense as a unrelated plot line in book 2. I think it would have effected too many future plots if Neville was some kind of "Prince"


Neville is going to play a major role in the next two books, so that idea isn't too far fetched. However both Neville's parents were wizards so he isn't a half blood.

The forums at www.mugglenet.com have been going over this for a while, and have come up with several ideas like Hagrid, Professor Snape, Dumbledore, Godric Gryffindor, and so on.

I have a feeling that it's going to be a new character.

[Franklinnoble]

I am shocked that this thread has nothing but actual Harry Potter discussion, despite the link that Logan posted above.

[Tigercat]

Neville is going to play a major role in the next two books, so that idea isn't too far fetched. However both Neville's parents were wizards so he isn't a half blood.

The forums at www.mugglenet.com have been going over this for a while, and have come up with several ideas like Hagrid, Professor Snape, Dumbledore, Godric Gryffindor, and so on.

I have a feeling that it's going to be a new character.

What I mean is something like Neville being a Prince showing up in the second book would have drastically effected several plots from the last few books. Whatever the half blood prince entails is something that could have been in the second book, but would not have affected the major plot points in books 2-5.

That does seem to point to a new character or something that doesnt impact how one of the main characters would have developed over the past few books. I think one of the current students being some kind of prince would have effect the other students, and therefore the plot points, too much over the past few books.

[ISiddiqui]

Yeah, you gotta look at Book 2. Remember Harry trying to find out where he belonged and in the end Gryfenddor was where it was? I'd imagine back in GG's time there was actual royalty and he easily could have been it (after all magic users can come from two muggles like Hermione shows). Also I think just like Voldy is the Heir of Syltherin, Harry is the Heir of Gryfinddor (Slytherin's archenemy in the school's conception).

[psychedelicate-girl]

I think it is Hagrid. JKR said she was going to name the 2nd book this, but decided 6 was a better place for it. She talked a very little about Hagrid's background in CoS. I think she removed the meaty parts regarding Half Blood Prince.
Half blood by definition so far, is a wizard with one wizard parent and at least one muggle parent or grandparent. I believe Hagrid is considered a half-breed.
But I could be wrong.

[Logan]

I am shocked that this thread has nothing but actual Harry Potter discussion, despite the link that Logan posted above.

For their sake, I'm hoping they're all at work.

[QuikSand]

I'm far from an expert, but it seems to me that we really can't rule anything out. We know that it's JKR's style to lead us to believe one thing, only to spin things in a different direction as needed for her plot twists. Ruing out someone like, say, Neville, as the "half-blood prince" seems premature -- it's just based on what we think we know, which is certainly subject to potential change. Maybe his "parents" aren't his parents? Who knows?

I don't claim to know a darned thing... but I also don't claim to know enough to say definitively that something is impossible in this case.

[Buccaneer]

All continues to be very interesting. Question. Isn't Godric G., like, dead? I know you can't rule out anyone coming back from the dead, esp. to fight an un-dead like Voldy, but why stop there?

[Bearcat729]

Yes Gryffindor is dead which in my mind would make him unlikely to be the Half Blood Prince. I doubt that he would come back from the dead to aid Harry, but maybe leave something to help in the war.


I think the only reason he came up as a possibility because of the sword from the hat in the end of CoS, and because no one knows anything about the history of the 4 founders.

[Franklinnoble]

Amazing... it's like Harry Potter is some sort of inhibitor for nubile young boobie enthusiasm around here...

[GrantDawg]

I'm far from an expert, but it seems to me that we really can't rule anything out. We know that it's JKR's style to lead us to believe one thing, only to spin things in a different direction as needed for her plot twists. Ruing out someone like, say, Neville, as the "half-blood prince" seems premature -- it's just based on what we think we know, which is certainly subject to potential change. Maybe his "parents" aren't his parents? Who knows?

I don't claim to know a darned thing... but I also don't claim to know enough to say definitively that something is impossible in this case.
I guess there is a possibilty that his parents might not be his parents, but I would say it is very,very unlikely that Rowlings is going to destroy a strong storyline to make him suddenly a "half-blood." If that is the way she goes, well then ok. The only thing you can do right now is go on what she has revealed, and what she has revealed so far is that it is not Harry or Voldermort, and that the title of the second book was "The Half-blood Prince" and she changed her mind. That last bit is why people believe it was someone that is in the books already, but I say it is just as likely someone she decided not introduce the character at all untill now.

[judicial clerk]

Using my wizardry skills, I predict that this thread will die out and then experience an intense resurgence in views (but not posts) after this movie is released.

[Glengoyne]

Using my wizardry skills, I predict that this thread will die out and then experience an intense resurgence in views (but not posts) after this movie is released.
Silly Muggle. That's Divination, not wizardry.

[Buccaneer]

Silly Muggle. That's Divination, not wizardry.
But not the kind Trelawney teaches, I suspect.

[ntndeacon]

Remember being half blood means your grandparents were Muggles. Like Harry himself. or Lord Voldemort. So Neville could be a half Blood...We only have met one grandparent. We do know that her husband was a wizard, I think, but nothig on the other side.

[psychedelicate-girl]

If you read the OOTP pg842, Dumbledore himself says that Neville is a pureblood.

"...He chose you, not Neville. He gave you the scar that has proved both a blessing and a curse."
"But he might have chosen wrong!" said Harry. "He might have marked the wrong person!"
"He chose the boy he thought most likely a danger to him, " said Dumbledore. "And notice this Harry. He chose, not the pureblood (which according to his creed, is the only kind of wizard worth being or knowing ), but the half-blood, like himself."...

I know Jo has said that Neville will be a very important part of the story. But I still don't think the half blood prince fits him. She does twist her plots, but after affirming in the books in more than one place that Neville is a pure blood. I doubt he is going to turn out to be a half blood after all.

*edit* and further about Hagrid: Hagrid's story is fleshed out so much in OOTP. Why not mention there that he is a prince, or put the whole giant story-line somewhere else? No, I don't think it is Hagrid either.

Just my personal speculation.

[rufusjonz]

omg

[JeeberD]

Fluer's got very nice boobies...

I really have no idea who the HBP is, though I don't really think that it could be a new character. Jo Rowling has said that HBP was the working title for book two until she realized that book two was too early to start going down that path.

I hope the book comes out fairly soon, but I have my re-read of the Dark Tower series to keep me busy until then... :)

[Franklinnoble]

Fluer's got very nice boobies...

It's about f'ing time someone else noticed... geeze... gone are the days when links to boobie pix used to get everyone's attention around here.