Hogwarts Says Goodbye to Sybill Trelawney
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Casting, Fandom, Remakes and Sequels
Geez, poor Sybill Trelawney has the crappiest luck. First, Dolores Umbridge goes after the zany teacher and tries to get rid of her, and then we learn that she's been written out of the next installment, even though she plays an important part in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. And now, well, now we don't even get to look forward to her in the final double installment. No big-screen goodbye for us, unless Order of the Phoenix heads back to theaters. (This is assuming the Harry Powers That Be don't recast her for the final film.)
Emma Thompson has told MTV that she's given up the Harry Potter world to make another Nanny McPhee film. It makes sense -- she wrote and starred in the first, so naturally it "means much more" to her. So, while she won't be magical with Harry, Hermione, and Ron, she will delight in magic with the tentatively titled Nanny McPhee and The Big Bang. This time around, it's one hundred years after the first film, and focuses on "The big war, and a war between these two sets of extremely different children."
I can't help but wonder -- is this why she wasn't in Half-Blood Prince too?
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11-12-2008 @ 6:18PM
Pudge said...
"she will delight in magic with the tentatively titled Nanny McPhee and The Big Bang. This time around, it's one hundred years after the first film, and focuses on "The big war, and a war between these two sets of extremely different children.""
um, am I high right now?
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11-13-2008 @ 8:30AM
Eric H said...
After the fourth film the Potter movies seem like they are really gonna suck. The firth one was just plain terrible, and the changes they have made to the sixth one give me no hope that they care to make a film that has anything to do with the books.
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11-19-2008 @ 12:46AM
Fran said...
That's a shame. Emma Thompson is such a brilliant actress & seemed to be having such a good time hamming it up as Trelawney. I was among those disappointed with the movie version of "Order of the Phoenix" (well, actually, ALL the movie versions, with "Goblet of Fire" being the nadir), but the long outtake of poor Sybil spilling her food in every way imaginable while Umbridge gave her speech at the start-of-term feast was worth the price of the deluxe DVD all by itself. Great in-character improv by a true pro. At least she got to be in more of the movies than her ex, whose shoulda-been scene at St. Mungo's was among the multitudes left out of "Phoenix."
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