Mira Nair to direct the new Harry Potter movie? According to Nair herself:
“I’m getting offers to direct Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I read it over the weekend. I’m still deciding… I’m not letting all this go to my head. I’m grounded. I practise detachment, it helps me keep my balance. I’m a Dilliwalli [someone from Delhi], only an asana [a position in Yoga] gets me on my head! My son Zoharan’s excited. I’ve seen all the Harry Potter movies with him.”
I’d be quite interested to see what she could do with the material. I thought that Chris Columbus did an awful job, both in terms of deadening the joy in the material, but also in terms of whitewashing it all. Cuaron, on the other hand, did even better than I had expected (although given how well he directed “A Little Princess“, maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised). He also managed to showcase the non-white characters who were there all along, and who play a larger role in the story as the series goes on. No word yet on whether Sitara Shah will come back as Parvati Patil (heck, they haven’t even re-signed Daniel Radcliffe yet).
For more on Nair, read Sajit’s earlier post on the topic, where he mentioned this rumor earlier.
i have heard that daniel radcliffe et al. are NOT coming back for the fourth movie – that they are too old for the parts now.
wtf? they are making one movie a year … the books describe each successive school year … one would think that they would be the perfect age.
i hope they stick with the original cast. and would love to see mira nair directing this next one (although seeing Cuarón direct it wouldn’t upset me any either..)
Cuarón’s take was the best of the three; Nair’s done at least one big movie but, as with Cuarón, never effects-laden ones. Cuarón must’ve had some great lieutenants handling the effects.