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Columbus Defends 'Harry Potter' Length
Wednesday, October 31, 2001 1:21 PM EST
At 143 minutes, the much-anticipated "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is nearly twice as long as most kids' movies.
But director Chris Columbus said fans of the J.K. Rowling book from which the film is adapted would have been crushed if the filmmakers had left too much out.
"My mantra has been, Kids are reading a 700-page book," Columbus told Time magazine. "They can sit through a 2 1/2-hour movie."
Columbus is referring to the fourth book in the series, the 734-page "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," which came out last year and holds the record as the fastest-selling book in history.
"Instead of trying to overtake the readers' imagination, we've just given them the best possible version of the book, which means steeping it in reality," the director said. "I wanted kids to feel that if they actually took that train, Hogwarts would be waiting for them."
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," starring Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith and 12-year-old Daniel Ratcliffe as the boy wizard, opens on November 16th.
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