PoA Movie News Welcome to the page of this site full of news about the filming of PoA. If you would like to see all of the HP news at the moment, click here. Aftonbladet's Report on PoA Filming Aftonbladet is the only Swedish newspaper, and they got the (rather enjoyable) task of supervising the production of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. This is the translated version of the article written by Aftonbladet, taken from The Leaky Cauldron. SHEPPERTON - Harry Potter and Hermione Granger stand by the roots of an enourmous tree. Suddenly Harry dashes off towards the lake, holding up his wand. "Expecto Patronum," he shouts. After nearly 40 takes, Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron says, "Gracias". We're situated in the Shepperton Studios, a great building a few miles out of London. Here, some of the scenes in the third Harry Potter movie are being filmed. Inside the enourmous studio woods are erected. The trees are massive, the trunks several meters thick and stretching far towards the fake sky. The woods are dark, of course, with a menacing air, and like a couple of tiny shadows Harry and Hermione are standing under a tree. Harry jerks and rushes off, Hermione fumbles for him to hold him back. Harry takes out his wand and runs the 15-20 metres towards the frozen lake. Journeys back in time He holds it up, towards the camera that's fastened on a crane - the camera glides towards his face, stops and retreats. We're talking a sequence of 30 seconds, maybe slightly more. "Harry and Hermione have travelled back in time to save Sirius Black and this is a scene in which Harry saves himself from 'the Dementors'. It's a bit complicated," Daniel Radcliffe, acting the role of Harry Potter, tells us later during our talk. The director Alfonso Cuaron wants a retake and gets it, over and over. In the end Harry's been rushing down towards the lake nearly 40 times before the director thanks the entire filming crew with a "Gracias". Daniel isn't bored with it. "It's not as tiring while you're at it, it's afterwards it gets to you. Because when you're acting, the adrenaline's pumping, you don't notice." It was Chris Columbus who directed the earlier two films about Harry, while Mexican Alfonso Cuaron, best known for his movie 'Y Tu Mama Tambien', produces the third. Darker than before "The difference between him and Chris Columbus is that Chris got an energetic way of working which suited the first films. Alfonso's got a mild intensity that works better with this material," Daniel tells us (somewhat precocious). You've all said that the third book is the best movie material. How is that? "What I like about this book is that it isn't Voldemort who is the main source of terror," says Emma Watson, who's joined. The movie is also somewhat darker and more menacing than the first two. "Alfonso films it in a different way, too - he uses almost only wide-angles and he doesn't like getting in too close," says Daniel. Gary Oldman, playing the part of Sirius Black - the Prisoner - is a new member of the team and agrees. "That's one of the reasons I accepted his offer, apart from needing the money. I like his style, he does his own stuff and it shows that the producers have courage. "He's done a raw version of about 20 minutes of some of the filmed materials, and it's good, remarkably good. I think he's used 32mm's objects at the most. Which is very wide," Oldman laughs. In the role of Sirius Black he uses a low voice (Oldman's expertise is voices) with a slight East End accent. Tatooed all over "And I'm tatooed, that's Alfonso's idea." He rises and shows the tatoos all over his body. "In some scenes I need those on my arms, but right now they aren't needed." Another new take is that Alfonso's modernised the movie a bit. There is still the archaic environment but Harry, Hermione, Ron and the other students are in modern clothes. In this scene Harry wears beige trousers and a grey-blue tracksuit jacket with stripes. Emma's got jeans and a pink, tight sweatshirt on. Both of them are wearing sneakers. Also there are several new actors on the team besides Gary Oldman. When Richard Harris, playing the part of Professor Dumbledore, passed away, Michael Gambon was picked for the role. "I'm sure it wasn't easy to succeed someone that competent. But he's perfect and he doesn't try to copy Richard. He's doing some changes and the part becomes his own," Emma Watson says. And then, they've got some news to share. "We're in for the fourth movie as well." It's been speculated that Daniel, Emma and Rupert were to be replaced for the fourth film, as they are going on fifteen and getting too old. "But that won't happen, not for this time." Are you in for the fifth movie? "We're not up to speculate on that - one movie at a time." 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' goes in to British and American cinemas on June 4th 2004. |
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