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'Harry Potter' in Entertainment Weekly
Thursday, September 6, 2001 4:21 PM EDT
The fine folks at Entertainment Weekly were kind enough to drop this in my email box earlier today with the following exerpt:
Just wanted to give you a heads-up about next week's issue of Entertainment Weekly, featuring Harry Potter. The magazine will be on newsstands across the country Monday, September 10. In the meantime, I have enclosed a JPEG of the cover in this e-mail, and you'll find a summary of the cover story below:
"People talk about passion for material all the time. When people go off and do Godzilla 3 they say, 'Oh, I really feel a lot of passion for this material,' and you get kind of sick of reading it. But whatever it was that propelled me to go to film school, it was back, and in a big way. It was sort of like Paul Newman in The Verdict. This is the big trial. This is the big case. This was the film that I was destined to do, that I had spent all those years directing and writing and preparing for." This passion certainly didn't hurt director Chris Columbus when he scored the helming gig for Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone. "He wanted to be faithful to Jo [Rowling] and Jo's books," says Potter producer David Heyman of Columbus, "and at that point, that was the most important thing to me."
J.K. Rowling was involved as much as possible with the development of her book's big-screen adaptation: in one of the director's meetings with her, he is said to have asked her to draw him a map of her magical realm to help inform the production design. Rowling read every draft of the script and sat in on production meetings. Yet, busy with writing and not wanting to add pressure to the proceedings, she rarely visited during shooting. "They have been very gracious in allowing me a lot of input," Rowling told ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY last summer. "I have been open and blunt about what I would and wouldn't like to see. Ultimately, the control is not mine. People don't like it when a writer comes in and runs the show. That's what they bought my book for: control."
In next week's issue, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY takes an inside look at the highly-anticipated Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, including Columbus' visual inspiration for the movie (two David Lean films, Great Expectactions and Oliver Twist); Rowling's initial wariness prior to meeting screenwriter Steve Kloves ("This was the man who was gonna butcher my baby...[But] we hit it off."); and why the film's casting director resigned over the search for an actor to portray the title character (Columbus ultimately got who he wanted all along: Daniel Radcliffe).
Thanks to EW.
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