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No one could play Horace Slughorn like you could... No one's going to...
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I think one of the Potter fansites broke the casting of Horace Slughorn for HALF-BLOOD PRINCE yesterday and today Garth over at Dark Horizons confirmed it with the actor himself.
Jim Broadbent will play the new teacher (Potions teacher to be specific... definitely not defense against the dark arts... who would think that? Not me...). I think that casting is pretty phenomenal. Aside from James Lipton's non-existent British twin there's no one I can think of better for the role. What do you guys think?
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the letter Z
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horace is the new potions master...snape is the the dark arts teacher.
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...For the distinguished Mr. Broadbent to show up in the Potterverse. If only the powers that be could get it right like this all the time.I may start a fire here, but Harry Potter has set the bar high for good casting choices, maybe the highest ever in the history of movies for book adaptations.
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I thought Order of the Phoenix was pretty uninspired.
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I was positive they would cast Bob Hoskins. In fact, thats who I always pictured when I was reading it.
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I actually was picturing Ian Holm when I read the book, but Jim Broadbent is actually a better choice. And I agree that the overall casting for these films has been pretty fantastic.
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but frankly I would have prefered Brian Blessed in this...I think Broadbent, Hoskins, Blessed, and Cox are about the only "great" British Char. actors to not appear in HP universe
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FUCK!!!!!
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to play Scrimgeour. i won't accept anyone else.
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You're supposed to think Slughorn is the Dark Arts professor, but then JKR throws us the Potions curveball. Quint was playing his part correctly.
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sorry, had to...
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i pictured Bob Hoskins in the role of Slughorn when i read the book. now, as for Scrimgeour, i absolutely, 100% could picture no one but Bill Nighy. he'd be absolutely perfect as Scrimgeour.
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ahhhhh
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I also pictured Bob Hoskins as Slughorn, but Broadbent will be brilliant. Hoskins should play Mundungus Fletcher.
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I can't get enough of cox...keep giving me cox...cox is the best thing on the face of this earth...KEEP THE COX COMING!
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I can't take credit for that suggestion, I heard it on a podcast. But doesn't it just fit? Anyway, I at least thought Slughorn was more rotund and shorter. Really, I'm fine with the choice because it is just Slughorn. Having finally sat down and read all of the books after falling in love with the Order of the Phoenix movie, it's weird being on the knowing side of HP movie news.
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and I'm supposed to just keep typing, decided to just post a nonesense talkback, that would probably read as something significant, but that's just a bunch of horse poo. God, I wish they'd call cut, this needs to end. He wants me to keep typing, earlier they were stuffing Jelly donuts down my throat - this is sickening. Make it stop. I don't want to type anymore. Thank god. Bye.
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but not with a British accent. But Broadbent is a great choice.
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Guess I should read everyone else first. Sounds like Bob really was the one. I had heard he had asked when he was going to get a part, sad if that's true and he couldn't be Slughorn.
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Harry Knowles.
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Wilford Brimley, but WITH a British accent. Sheesh.
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Hi folks, I'm Horace Slughorn, and I suffer from diabetes. Probably because I don't eat enough of my Quaker oatmeal.
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Broadbent rocks, but I have to admit, I had my heart and hopes set on Bob Hoskins
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When I read the books, I always pictured him in my mind, he has the rolly polly look and quite an awesome mustache most of the time. I still vote for Bob Hoskins. He would do a fantastic job.
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When I read the books, I always imagine Slughorn as Richard Griffiths, but as he's already Uncle Vernon that idea's buggered.
What about Ian McKellen, he's one of the few big name british actors not used in the series. Maybe Ricky Tomlinson as a left field choice... -
Broadbent's a good choice, but I remember watching Peter O'Toole do some of the press for Venus and talking about the old days and the people he worked with, and thinking that he might not look the part, but he'd make a pretty cool Slughorn.
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That is all.
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That's all.
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I want him to be in one of these. Maybe in the 7th as Dumbledore's brother??
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c'mon!
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I love Jim Broadbent but he's not at all how I pictured Slughorn. But off the top of my head I can't think of anyone who is. Of the aforementioned names, Brian Blessed would be the closest. But yeah I didn't like the Order of the Phoenix movie either and I loved the book.
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while should be in these movies, I can't picture as WHO? Maybe as the adult Neville?
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Rufus Scrimgeour. i mean, really...it'd be perfect casting.
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Months ago, on one of the OOTP talkbacks. AMAZING!
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and it's ALWAYS brilliant casting. Is anyone not tired of this yet?
Give it a rest.
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Of course, I always pictured Slughorn as more of the Peter Ustinov type, but since he's dead, it would be kinda difficult for him to play the part.
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Think about it. And whoever sad Richard Griffiths is 100% dead on. It is a damn shame he's Vernon.
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Slughorn I've always pictured, like, orca fat. Like all he does is consume. This guy looks a tad slender. Needs more chunk.
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Yeah, we're still like three years away from that casting, I know. But Ian McKellen would be way cool as Aberforth. Brian Cox would be cool as anyone, although I didn't picture Scrimgeour like him at all. Broadbent's a good choice for Slughorn. The only problem is that the character has a huge part in Half-Blood Prince, a tiny part in Deathly Hallows, and really has no bearing on the plot of either whatsoever. In fact Half-Blood Prince doesn't have much of a plot at all, it's basically a way for Rowling to unload all the Voldemort backstory before Book 7.
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Yeah, we're still like three years away from that casting, I know. But Ian McKellen would be way cool as Aberforth. Brian Cox would be cool as anyone, although I didn't picture Scrimgeour like him at all. Broadbent's a good choice for Slughorn. The only problem is that the character has a huge part in Half-Blood Prince, a tiny part in Deathly Hallows, and really has no bearing on the plot of either whatsoever. In fact Half-Blood Prince doesn't have much of a plot at all, it's basically a way for Rowling to unload all the Voldemort backstory before Book 7.
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As long as the guy's corpulent, I'm satisfied.
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I was AD on a short film a while back and I had to stand in as a "student" and type forEVER in a scene. my solution was to find a game to play on the computer that used keys for movement. pinball maybe? good luck with the shoot!
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made me nerdjaculate.
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I still think Broadbent would be great as Vice Principal Nero from "A Series of Unfortunate Events". He certainly has the volume. XD
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And your point is?
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I'm happy with this choice but I was rooting for Hoskins for quite a while as well. He'd wanted to be in a HP movie but it's not looking as if he's going to get much of a chance.
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That's what I was thinking. He's definitely shorter than Broadbent and IMHO physically matches the description Rowling gives. Actually, both of them are in Brazil (Hoskins = short central services guy, Broadbent = the Doctor ("snip snip... slice slice...")) Broadbent will be good, probably awesome in fact, but to me Hoskins would fit the part to a T.
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But you know Slughorn is the kind of role any actor would have fun slipping right into. I am surprised this wasn't the role for Bob Hoskins. If he doesn't play Dumbledore's brother in the next one I'll be really surprised. Ian McKellen is who I would have cast as Mad Eye (I saw him as tall, not fat, when it comes to his being big, and I consider Moody the biggest miscast of the series). But I could also see him as Gaunt, Voldemort's grandaddy. Not that it's a big enough role for him, and not that it isn't screaming for Christopher Lee to play it too. Oh well, I should really stop giving a shit, they clearly don't know that I should be casting these movies instead of them, right? Right? Hello?
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re: Broadbent as Slughorn. My "vote" also goes to Nighy as Scrimgeour. Aberforth I'm still on the fence about. For Fenir Greyback, what about Terrence Stamp? He is someone menacing...
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Wasn't Aberforth in the Order of the Phoenix movie?
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as Fenier that is some downright brillent casting right there, however I get the feeling that Greyback will probably either be not in the movie or a very small bit part that they'll give to some non "big name"
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She would have been perfect for Tonks.
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I am looking forward to this casting, I would definitely vote yes for bill nighy for aberforth. Whee!
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Horace Slughorn feels up students at parties. Ginny told me. Slug Club indeed.
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i always saw patrick stewart as scrimgeour... something about vocal inflections on the page made me see picard; christopher lee or mckellen would work too, i guess. now, lets hear it for ricky gervais for alecto (the brother; i think alecto was the brother)!!!!
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Brian blessed was always how I pictured Slughorn, obviously smaller but there are ways to work that. I always saw him as the booming voiced and boastful character that Blessed plays so well. A great Pity,
Oh and Aberforth is already there... listed on IMDB...
He is after all the bar tender at the hogs head, he had the goat and everything, noticed him second time around. Looks pretty raggidy, they could go with someone else for him but I imagine he is one of the things that J.K. told them to include for the sake of Deathly Hallows.
I would love to see Nighy take a twisted stab at Grayback and I would truly love to see Liam Neeson given the mutton chops and a bit of a greying for Scrimgeour, it would be cool. -
I think Nighy's too old for greyback, he's brilliant and menacing and all but he does'nt evoke the brute terror I want for such a cutthroat character.
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When are you going to get your techheads over there to fix this damn Login problem? Every fucking time I try to long in it stops me! Except maybe once every three or four DAYS. Jesus. This site used to fucking work!
Other than that, Broadbent is pretty perfect casting. As is pretty much everyone in these movies.
Which is why Ricky Gervais should just FUCK OFF AND DIIIIIIIEEEEEEE when it comes to the Potterverse. He's far too shit to play anything in them.
Yeah, I said it. Ricky Gervais is shit. A fat, sarcastic humourless twat plays a fat, sarcastic humourless twat for two series and he's the Second Coming of comedy (after the incomparable John Cleese, obviously). It's all bullshit. It's NOT great acting to play yourself in everything you do - Adam Sandler does it, and no-one thinks he's a comedy genius. Do they?? -
Both things- I had to get a new ID as it wouldn't let me log in as Lost Prophet anymore. (And I wasn't banned before anyone points it out). And Gervais is not the second coming of comedy.
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Want too much money, him being a "lead" and all. Although, come to think of it, he has been doing smaller rolls lately.
But consider this: It is about the "trio" after all: Harry, Ron & Hermy. The rest of them are just cameos. But they have been damn fine cameos!
As for Gervias, nice guy but any part of casting him will still not recover my horror of the cutting of Rik Mayhal (The Young Ones, Bottom, Drop Dead Fred) as PEEVES!!! Peeves is in every fucking book and they cut him out. It's horrible. Horrible. Other than Bean (Rowan Atkinson) he is Brit comedy personified for me. And they get Kathy (Fat Lady) but not Jennifer? Come on! AbFab was a tremndous show.
I'm ranting.
But now that I have mention Atkinson, he should be someone. Perhaps that Slytherin painting guy in the head office, what's his name....Phineus? -
should be Begbe aka Robert Carlyle!!!
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Wasn't he offered a part in one of the first few films? I remember reading an interview with him not long ago. It was a smallish part & he turned it down, but said he regretted it, and hoped to be given the chance again. Can't remember who it was he was going to play. Maybe Kenneth Brannaghs part?
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Because I wouldn't mind seeing Charles S Dutton as Shackelbolt. Or Sam L Jackson. Or Ernie Hudson.
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I became caught up in watching my new Oz dvds. Chiwetel Ejiofor (Serenity, Prisilla Queen of the Desert) should be Shacklebolt. Yes.
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Anyone been cast yet? Thought I read on one of these TBs that it had. But if not: Tilda Swinton?
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They are becoming fine young actors but it is obvious that they started the whole "cameo" thing as a solid base for the newbies to stand on. It's commendable. And logical.
Like "tea time".Ï -
should play narcissa, she's similar enough to Helena Bonham Carter in height and build and has a scary thin face also.
She's also played an Albino before.
As to Slughorn I always pictured him as Richard Griffith, who I also pictured as Vernon. Slughorn is so obviously Uncle Monty from Withnail and I. -
First time I read thru Halfblood Prince, for some reason, I pictured Dex's (from the "Episode II: Attack of the Clones" diner) voice when Slughorn talked.
That being said...
I can't wait til after all 7 movies are done, and Warner wants to milk the franchise even more, and commissions the making of 7 novel-accurate animated movies. The live movies are ok, but Harry Potter just screams to be a high quality animation series. -
Perfect casting! I always knew Broadbent would make it to the Potterverse. It's a Borrowers reunion with Mr. Weasley! I also think Nighy would be right at home. It's too bad they can't switch and make Nighy Dumbledore while Gambon plays Aberforth. I think they would have better suited those roles.
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That is so fucking crazy it is nearly genius- and the best idea I've heard so far. Top draw. Better than my shout for Deborah Kara Unger.
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Was reported months ago. First non-Brit I do believe.
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but Broadbent will be fine too.
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i thought that whole naomi watts thing had been debunked as a rumor. whoever said tilda swinton could have something there.
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I read your short essay and have just a few questions.1. Who claimed that Harry Potter was entirely original?2. Is there something about borrowing elements from familiar stories and adapting them to a new story that you find disagreeable?3. Do you think that all movies and stories need to be 100% original to be valid?4. How do you type with your head so firmly planted in your rectum?
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But it's hard to find a much better actor than Jim Broadbent. No complaints.
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Before the films came out, I read the books picturing Broadbent as Cornelius Fudge. So this annoys me a bit. But then, Broadbent's Broadbent, so I'm not complaining.
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Ricky Gervais should play Luna Lovegood's father.
Kristin Scott Thomas as Narcissa Malfoy
Terrance Stamp as Scrimgeour
Ian McKellen as Aberforth Dumbledore
Bill Nighy as Grindewald
Liam Neeson as Fenrir Greyback...only cause I want him in the series and I don't know where else to put him anymore.
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When will we get the latest scoop on the Dora the Explorer movie?
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would have been good...but jim is a good actor..hope it's better than the last one...not bad..not great...just meh
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