It’s really quite amazing that all the major actors in HP are still IN the series. When an interviewer would ask Dan, “Aren’t you afaid you’ll OUTGROW the character?”…I would think to myself, “Geez, what about the actors playing Snape, Dumbledore, and McGonagall?”…Can THEY make it through the entire series? That’s kinda a scary thought having to replace ANY of the actors at this point. 10 years is a loooooong time. The entire francise has been extremely lucky in that respect.

ICM has new pics of Rupert in Cherrybomb!

http://www.rupert-grint.us/~taoicm1/gallery2/v/promo/chb/malandluke.jpg.html

I should say that there are three new ones and a larger version of the one we got the other day. :)

Mama Lovegood….

Show me what you mean by constant debates. It’s sort of hyperbolic considering this is the first one in a very very very long time.

I think David put things very well by saying how lucky they have been with finding Dan, Rupert and Emma – it could just as easily have gone very wrong and they could have ended up with a bunch of self-obsessed tossers. I think they all show good work ethic and that says a lot for people so young – and they don’t seem to have let the money and fame go to their heads.

The 54 weeks sounds fairly obvious – Dan said he’s be filming for 14 months – that looks about right with a break in the middle of a few weeks.

I think the screen time with Emma and Rupert will be pretty much evenly spread – the only major parts that the three of them aren’t together is when Ron leaves them and Harry & Hermione go to Godrics Hollow. In the second part of DH Harry will be in a lot more solo scenes.

I’ve only had time to read the first “page” of postings…@Cat: Well said! I am with you 100% and after watching our way [here, across the pond] of handling child actors, I can see nothing ahead, for the trio, than well adjusted and happy young adults….not spoiled, pampered and ignored, by their parents and others. Here, unfortunately, if a child is found to have talent, they are put into a role. That role lasts a while or they make a huge amount of money, they are never allowed to be “children”…they become a commodity.This current shooting schedule is going to be long and grueling. I think they are up to the task. Dan, Rupert and Emma all have their sights set, on the future. THEIR future, after HP, lies in continued education. Be it Academic, or artistic. I am proud of them, and I’m sure their parents are too….

Agreed that the trio’s interviews show each of them to be very well-adjusted and mature for their age, so families, adult cast and crew deserve credit for the way they’ve helped to keep them, and most of the other younger cast members, grounded through the 8 years of intermittent filming. And we can be especially proud of them as role models for British youth, and hope that continues..

The filming schedule will be arduous, and iirc they are aiming to complete as much as possible of Hermione’s scenes before Emma goes to Uni in September, so all the camping – no doubt programmed for warmer times than in the script! – Godric’s Hollow, Shell Cottage etc can be done then. Malfoy Manor will wait for Helena’s start in ?July. Even much of the Hogwarts stuff around the final battle does not need the likes of Ralph Fiennes (body double, CGI) so Emma could just be in for call backs around next Christmas and wrap-up bits in March 2010. Of course, they can’t finalise her schedule till she knows whether Uni will be in USA or UK!

Dang, that is more than a year of shooting … I’m glad they’re taking their time. I’m sure I’m not the only one that wants these two films to be the best they can be. :D

Mama lovegood, i am with you. I was so disappointed in the amount of book time luna got in the sixth book. h/l beats h.g any day of the week. And yes to chucking ron and hermione- that’s gonna be my bathroom break.

Honestly, who cares any more … when the film will be released, I’ll be 20 years older than today, so to say. Best Wishes for Xmas and the New Year to everybody, though :-)

54 weeks is to long. Sounds like they are taking their time with it – I hope its worth it. Didn’t the 3 Lord of the Rings movies take 45 weeks to make? Maybe it takes that long to build new movie sets because they’ll need to build some new ones. The Book almost has Harry, Ron & Harmione spending all of their time together so they should be together through-out the filming. I think they will split the movie when Bellatrix takes Harmione at the Malfoy’s – Its a good cliff hanger moment.

That’s a lot of weeks to make one movie. Will they all be happy or sad or a little of both when it finally ends? I’m sure that they all will have happy memories of the whole thing. But at least they should have one or two weeks vacation in between the two halves of the last movie. Take a break! Even us regular people who have regular jobs get a week or two of vacation time. I can’t imagine working a full year without a vacation break.