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JANUARY 17, 2004 at 8:24 PM
Posted by GERI
Source: Sunday Mail via Wizard News
According to the next director in the Harry Potter franchise, Mike Newell
, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire will be the most expensive movie ever made.
The film, which starts production in April, will cost an estimated £170 million ($308 million), reports the Sunday Mail. That's £5 million ($10 million) more than the entire Lord of the Rings series.
Newell commented that directing a Potter picture carried huge responsibilities:
"I think of myself as being really lucky. I'm going to make the most expensive film there has ever been. These things are not like ordinary films they are world events. I have millions of 10-year-olds who must not be disappointed. Making Harry Potter is like being President of Brazil. It is a colossal undertaking."
Newell also commented that finding an eight-foot-tall French woman to play Hagrid's love interest, Madame Maxime, has caused him a giant-sized headache.
"We are casting right now. I've been in Paris, looking for giant women and French schoolgirls."
Top five most expensive movies to date:
trilogy (estimated to be $298 million) and Titanic at $200 million each and The Wild, Wild West at $175 million each
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Order of Merlin, 2nd Class
Points: 1752
Miss Granger says:
That's awesome!! Being the most expensive movie ever is a big deal!!! Maybe I can fly to Paris and audition. Anybody here a travel agent??!!
Posted Jul 17, 2004 at 1:39 PM EST
Auror
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Points: 2484
Since the Start says:
Wow, it sounds like GoF is going to be awesome... I hope the movie is as good as they're playing it up to be so far... but of course, it could never be as good as the book itself...
Posted Jul 20, 2004 at 2:12 PM EST
Muggle
Points: 18
harrypotter_obsesser says:
Wow I think the movies gonna be awesome!!! Cost more than all the Lord of the Rings movies put together and I thought that trilogy was gonna stay #1 for a while.
Posted Aug 12, 2004 at 1:20 AM EST
Muggle
Points: 18
harrypotter_obsesser says:
Oops sorry I messed up on my last post!!! It's still gonna be a great movie though if it's more expensive than Return of the King.
Posted Aug 12, 2004 at 1:22 AM EST
Points: 66
potters friend says:
I m really happpy that my fav.movie is the most expensive movie im desperately waiting foe the 5 movie i wish it comes out fasttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11.
Posted Dec 30, 2006 at 4:15 AM EST
Rickmaniac to the Core
Points: 2564
snaily says:
Making Harry Potter is like being President of Brazil. What a comparison, really! Did the film cost that much, though?
Posted May 9, 2008 at 2:32 AM EST
Auror
Points: 2424
bonniewrightrulz says:
Yeah,but many harry potter fans were disappointed with the film and that should never have been the case.The movie should have been atleast 3 hours.
Posted Jul 22, 2008 at 3:55 AM EST
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