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Old 08-27-2013, 11:38 PM
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Post Warner Bros OK's NESCom student adaptation of "The Tale of the Three Brothers"

The New England School of Communications announced that they received permission from Warner Bros to make a live-action short film on J.K. Rowling's The Tale of the Three Brothers, one of the five stories from The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Casting is underway in the town of Bangor, Maine, for a child and an elderly man to play a grandfather, as well as several adult male and female characters. More information on the castings can be found here. After the movie is shot this year, the producers plan to submit it for film festivals.





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"We've got rights, right now, to produce a short film based on the work of J.K. Rowling. Warner Brothers, who actually owns the Harry Potter world, actually gave us permission to take one of her short stories that comes from that world, and create a short film out of it. We're really excited that this is going to be the first project the students in our video film track are able to use the Red Epic that we purchased, it's coming this fall," said instructor, Frank Welch.

"It will have students in the audio track, students in the video track, in the entertainment production track, all working together over the course of really the next year to put together this final piece," said Welch.

"The two main characters are going to be a small boy around the age of ten, eight, somewhere around there, as well as an older gentleman, who's going to be playing his grandfather. Those are the two parts were looking for. We also have a couple of female parts around twenty years old, as well as a female part, and we’re also going to have a lot of extras that we’d like for a couple of key scenes," said student Brandon Doyen.
Note that an animated version of The Tale of the Three Brothers was famously used in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, with Emma Watson and Hermione Granger narrating.
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