New Interviews with GoF director Mike Newell

[EmmaRiddle]

CBBC Newsround and Variety have new interviews with the director of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Mike Newell.

CBBC Interview:

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"What you do, is you pack it with references ...taken from the book," he told film magazine Variety.

Newell also said the costumes worn by the French girls in the films "drive the Hogwarts boys absolutely mad".

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He said he was surprised when he saw the third film because Cuaron had already done some of the things he wanted to do with the fourth.

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"Of course, what I had wanted to do was introduce the darker adolescent tone myself and found to my horror that Alfonso had gotten there before me and with great style and determination," said Newell.

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Filming on the fourth Potter movie started on 25 June and is scheduled to be in cinemas in November 2005.

Variety Interview:

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With "Goblet of Fire," Newell says, speaking to Variety one November day after filming (the shoot finishes April 1), "the attraction must have been partly that I was English: These films are so English, (Warner Bros.) must have wanted an English director."

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"I was nonplussed when I saw No. 3," he says. "Of course, what I had wanted to do was introduce the darker adolescent tone myself and found to my horror that Alfonso had gotten there before me and with great style and determination. And so I think there is a kind of tap dance between the mixture the audience wants, which of course is determined by the books," and what each individual director might want to bring to it.

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In the end, screenwriter Steve Kloves was among those who pressed for a single movie. "Steve wasn't sure what to do with the material he would have had to dispense with in order to make the first one ... coherent enough for a whole second film," says Newell.

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"What you do," says the helmer, "is you pack it with references and suggestions and so forth which, of course, you have taken from the book. So that a reader coming to the film goes, 'Oh, I see. I get it. They did it that way.' You're the guardian of the book, and at the same time, you have absolutely to be able to step off the books and say, 'We had better distill this.' Distillation is a very good word for it."

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But in the end, Newell says, "the children are growing up, and that's what the basic story is. You have to be true to growing up in an abstract way and to these kids in a particular way."


On that evidence, it sounds as if a film that is at least partly about children coming of age stands a decent chance of being truly, deeply adult.

Source: The Leaky Cauldron.

[emmafreak]

Aw, I bet he'll be a awesome director! I wonder what the French costumes look like..

[Princess Potter]

this makes me wonder about the French costumes.. lolz. lets keep this movie pg..

well, he certainly sounds like he knows what hes talking about. lets hope he really does.

[Kazters]

hmm interesting.. i do hope though he has told Mr Kloves that brittish children doing go aeound saying "Holy Cricket" Or "Bloody ****" all the time

[RedMartini]

Yeh.. I wonder what the French costumes look like too.

[prettyinpink]

this makes me wonder...about the french costumes

[padfootis#1]

I guess he's shooting for a PG-13 movie. Which wouldn't be too bad. I would love to have at least one Harry Potter movie that is not rated PG.

[potterxfan04]

lol im wondering about the french costume too!!

[isawfred1st]

I hope the French robes aren't suggestive...that would totally be deviating from the book. Newell sounds like a guy with a vision, but from all the "distilling" he's done, it looks like they took a ton out.

[hotshirlz]

^ they would take tons out. the book is to long. lolz. i heard that they're only going to do the three tasks and how harry learns to do them ... but i think thats rumors

[EmmaRiddle]

Actually, the costumes are actually from the book. Hermione makes comments about how nearly not there they are and they're described as thin and silky mainly because they come from a relatively warm climate.

Besides, Fleur is also half-veela and the French girls were meant to be attractive.

Don`t jump the gun guys!! They're 14 going on 15 now, it`s normal/expected of them to show guys in that drooling over girls sort of light. That element is certainly in the books what with Ron drooling over Fleur and Harry over Cho.

[*Snivellus*]

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But in the end, Newell says, "the children are growing up, and that's what the basic story is. You have to be true to growing up in an abstract way and to these kids in a particular way."


On that evidence, it sounds as if a film that is at least partly about children coming of age stands a decent chance of being truly, deeply adult.

Ok yeah they are growing up, but we also have to remember that that is just as important as the fact about what happens around Harry...oh well...

[the_blonde_one]

I'm really looking forward to seeing what Mike Newell has done!!! A British director - yay!!

So far everything I've heard has been good - unlike last time where everything I was hearing was making me go - WHAT?!!!


i'm so 'cited!!!

[Ms Wood]

So Mike knew he was to direct before he found out about Alfonso doing the darker version.

Roll on November on 11 Months now!!! yipee!!!

Pinch, punch, first day of the month