Fourth Harry Potter to be the most expensive film ever

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-01-19 04:58am

Mike Newell has said that GoF will be the most expensive movie ever to be made, costing £170 million ($308 million).

From http://www.mugglenet.com/

And the official news article about it is I can dress my links!

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2004-01-19 05:07am

What the fuck are they going to spend that fucking much money on?

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-01-19 05:16am

Especially since they should have had a lot of the sets and locations from the previous two movies.

There better be something new and spectacular for the third movie in a series to cost that much money. It's not like there was some huge break between films either.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2004-01-19 05:33am

Sea Skimmer wrote:What the fuck are they going to spend that fucking much money on?

Child Porn. Lots of it

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-01-19 05:36am

He said: ''We are casting right now. I've been in Paris, looking for giant women and French schoolgirls.''

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-01-19 05:38am

So it's the Fourth movie that's supposed to be so expensive.

Good luck to them on the French school girl casting.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-01-19 05:43am

Dress that fucking link.

Paying that much to make a movie is insane. I simply have no idea how it could be that fucking expensive, unless every piece of equipment is made out of gold or something...

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-01-19 07:15am

Well, I imagine the special effects for things like the tasks would have to be stupendous. Then there's the huge cast, and the fact it'll have to be a bloody long film..

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-01-19 07:40am

MEIN GOTT!

zombie84 · Post by **zombie84** » 2004-01-19 07:56am

thats ridiculous. Did the other ones even make that much money? the Harry Potter craze is on the downward slope.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-01-19 08:00am

That's just silly, I think they'll have to do this to win back the children they lost to LOTR.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-01-19 08:03am

I was just thinking.

Aren't there at least 4 big dragons in GoF?

I imagine we should at least get a good look at the one Harry comes up against.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-01-19 11:32am

Wow. The entire LOTR trilogy cost only in the are of $230 million. I don't think there's any way they'll be able to do anything more than break even on this film.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-01-19 12:35pm

zombie84 wrote:thats ridiculous. Did the other ones even make that much money? the Harry Potter craze is on the downward slope.

Well, the first two movies made about $600 million each worldwide, and $250-300 million in the US alone, but the kind of money they're asking for is still incredibly high.

CDiehl · Post by **CDiehl** » 2004-01-19 01:23pm

I am glad Hemlock mentioned Lord of the Rings. I was thinking as I read the thread that the makers of the Harry Potter movies learned the wrong lesson from it. They seem to think that if you spend enough cash, you'll produce a great movie, not that what made it great had to do with things other than the budget, like the writing and acting. Honestly, I never thought I'd say this, but that is entirely too much money for one movie, and you know it will be overkill if they try to spend all of it. It's not my business to say how a studio should spend their money, but they could easily cut that budget in half and make a good movie or two with it.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-01-19 01:31pm

Gandalf wrote:That's just silly, I think they'll have to do this to win back the children they lost to LOTR.

There are no LOTR movies anymore though. So it's not like LOTR has won them forever.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-01-19 01:43pm

Jaysus.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2004-01-19 01:48pm

What the hell? Is there gonna be a cruise liner in this film or something?

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-01-19 01:52pm

Wicked Pilot wrote:What the hell? Is there gonna be a cruise liner in this film or something?

Maybe they plan on producing a real dragon from actual R&D with several biotech companies.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-01-19 02:09pm

Damn thats gonna be an SFX wankfest

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-01-19 02:09pm

InnerBrat wrote:Well, I imagine the special effects for things like the tasks would have to be stupendous. Then there's the huge cast, and the fact it'll have to be a bloody long film..

I can't image that would eat up three hundred million dollars for a single film. Lord of the Rings which had at least as many special effects and huge scale cast scenes but was made for a less than a hundred million per film.

And the Star Wars prequels were made for that less and, again, were on a similarly grandiose scale.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2004-01-19 02:59pm

How can they possibly be spending that much money on the fourth film? They already have sets and locations and costumes and props from the previous films. They already have many of the actors under contract, so the fees for actors shouldn't be skyrocketing. LotR and SW didn't cost NEARLY that much, and frankly those were about as expensive as I can realistically see a movie being. This strikes me as being ridiculous. If they want to throw their money around, then fine, but... wow. Incidentally, why would the execs give them a green light on this? The fourth book is supposed to be one of the least popular of the novels. I can't understand why they would be spending the most money on the least popular book.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-01-19 03:00pm

[mysterious voice]oooooohhhhh .... mystic 2000AD predicts that ...... in a year or three there will be a simular announcement about Order of the Phoenix.

Mysterious
*waggles fingers*

[/mysterious voice]

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-01-19 03:34pm

Wow...wondering where the hell the money is going to, in order be so expensive.

Is 95% of the film pure cutting edge CGI that the only real thing is Harry's wand?

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2004-01-19 03:37pm

Something tells me they are trying to get live Dragon's rather than CGI for this kind of money