2 1/2 hours long? That's like 10 seconds per page. . .however I did always feel that there was a lot of unneccessary filler in GoF.

A 2 1/2 hour-long movie, however, could not possibly fit everything from GoF into the screenplay. But maybe Steve Kloves will take this interesting dillemma he has and concentrate on focussing on a few major parts of the novel. Even with 75% of the novel cut out, GoF would still be enormously great movie material, and I'm pretty sure that Steve Kloves and the director (was his name Newell, who's directing the 4th?) could either create a suspenseful cinematic masterpiece that just barely follows the book's plotline or a horrible movie that even tries to squeeze just the major plotline into the extremely short plotline. Either way, I'm sad to say, us fans would probably be disappointed at what they did not include.