Nyliram
11-30-2004, 11:14 AM
Newell discussed the challenges of Harry Potter with Variety recently.
"Newell says he's good casting for the job, not least because he brings to the material a sense that singular affinity the British tend to feel for their schooldays."
""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."
You can read the whole article here (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/variety/20041129/va_sp_ev/english__fire__burns_in_newell_1).
"Newell says he's good casting for the job, not least because he brings to the material a sense that singular affinity the British tend to feel for their schooldays."
""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."
You can read the whole article here (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/variety/20041129/va_sp_ev/english__fire__burns_in_newell_1).