Harry, Ron and Hermione will be making an appearance on the Harry Potter and the Escape From Gringotts ride at Universal Orlando Resort's Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Diagon Alley, Art Director Alan Gilmore told MTV on Tuesday. The article states that the actors, including Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Helena Bonham Carter (no proof yet that Emma Watson filmed, as Helena did play Bellatrix and Hermione in the Gringotts scene from
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2), shot new sequences from this ride.
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“[Harry, Ron and Hermione will] be there! It’s quite exciting,” Alan Gilmore, the art director for both the rides and the films told us over the phone. “They’re regrouping for one last adventure.”
And this isn’t just reusing footage from previous films, either. For the ride — which opens as a part of the new The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley area in Universal Orlando — all new scenes were filmed, to be played while riders explore Gringotts Bank.
“It’s all new, it’s a brand new film,” Gilmore continued, “and it’s absolutely film quality, involving the films team, a merging of the film team and the Universal production team.”
“Of course you have He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named making an appearance,” Gilmore said. “Helena [Bonham-Carter] supports him as one of his team. And then we have our main heroes appear as well. You get to meet all the great characters from the stories.”
“Harry Potter and the Escape From Gringotts” will include, “the full building on the exterior, we have a dragon on the outside, we have the bank, we have the goblins, and all the ancillary rooms to the back of the bank that nobody has ever seen before,” Gimore added.
“[The goblins are] actually moving,” Gimore clarified. “We can’t tell you how they move, but they’re working away. Goblins are very quiet gentlemen. We have the head goblin as well, watching over you. He’ll address you as you walk in. They’re perfect replicas of what you see in the film, and they’re very ominous.”
“We involved more of the film people in this one,” Gilmore recalled. “We brought the sculptors and painters on the film to educate the local Florida theme park guys, develop finishes and textures. It’s almost a perfect facsimile of the film set. The first ‘Harry Potter’ [ride] was good, but this one is even more detailed.”
“I have to say, one that keeps popping up, I too, like many, would like to a Ministry of Magic experience,” Gilmore. “That’s just me. It’s just such a cool place, so maybe someday.”