Re: Proposed New S&A Film Series


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Posted by RichardG on January 08, 2008 at 15:23:23 from 77.68.121.57 user RichardG.

In Reply to: Proposed New S&A Film posted by Mike Dennis on January 08, 2008 at 13:06:31:

If they are seriously thinking of filming all or most of the books, they are going to have to contend with the child actors growing up too fast. Jo Rowling's decision to have the Harry Potter cast grow older a year in each book was crucial in allowing the same actors to stay in the parts, which makes the films work so much better than if you had to get used to a new Harry or a new Hermione every couple of films. When they filmed the Famous Five they seem to have done it more-or-less continuously, but in the process significantly shortened the stories.

AR's books are generally reckon to cover a three-year span in the children's lives. You could probably film S&A and SD back to back one summer, but you would really need to film WH next in the winter (and given the milder winters we have nowadays, it might be difficult to film in the Lakes at all). Then you could probably film PP and P&M back to back the following summer or perhaps two summers after the initial filming. That suggests film crews setting up in the Lakes three times. In books that are set outdoors as much as AR's are, there would also be a need for the weatehr to co-operate !

CC & BS are obviously candidates for back-to-back filming, as the BBC did last time, and so are WD and SW, perhaps all four being handled together, with the crew moving from the Broads to the Naze; not having any of the cast in common they would be easier to deal with simultaneously.

That leaves the three offshore books, and again there could be a case for filming them one after another, although GN? could manage with slightly older children and therefore be filmed as the series finale.

You might just about be able to get from S&A to GN? in a three or four-year period without the child actors outgrowing their parts, but it would require a lot of faith from the backers that the series was going to be a success, and a strong commitment from the start to go the whole way through the canon.


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