Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Harmonia (A) on May 28, 2002 at 20:45:09

In Reply to: Harry Potter...is fullscreen really superior to the widescreen DVD? posted by cfraser on May 27, 2002 at 14:34:19:

Chris Columbus will NOT helm the third HP movie, The Prisoner of Azkaban. (Good news.)

According to Variety, Warner Brothers is looking for a director who can take some risks and be at ease with the darker material in HP III. Columbus wants to move back to Amerikay from old blighty.

So WB are courting...no shit...Alfonso Cuaron! Yup, the director of the sexually explicit, indie Mexican road movie Y Tu Mama Tambien. Of course, Cuaron has also directed more mainstream friendly fare, like the Great Expectations re-make with Gwyneth Paltrow/Ethan Hawke and the fine children's film The Little Princess. He's currently in preproduction for the film version of The Children of Man, based on the PD James novel.

Good grief, maybe WB actally learned something from the success of sister company New Line's bold but successful gamble with Peter Jackson on LOTR.

Hope Cuaron gets the nod. Would be muy interesting.