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Secrets of Voldemort's snaky nose and skin, book seven rumors
and ... Alfred Hitchcock?!
1. Goblet of Fire is the first Potter flick to be rated PG-13. It's something about frightening images, implied murder, human-eating snakes and a Harry vs. Voldemort battle that includes a torture scene.
2. Because the Goblet of Fire book is so hefty — in hardcover, it's a whopping 2.7 pounds and 734 pages — the film was conceived as a two-parter, with the segments being released months apart. Instead, several subplots and characters were cut, including the Dursleys, Dobby and Hermione's pro-house elves plan ("SPEW").
3. The titular goblet? It selects the competitors for the Triwizard Tournament, a dangerous match in which wizards compete in death-defying trials. Harry, though too young to enter, is mysteriously chosen by the goblet. It is, of course, the handiwork of Voldemort — who needs to secure three drops of Harry's blood to regenerate himself in human form.
4. Though the Potter series and author J.K. Rowling are British, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire's Mike Newell (Donnie Brasco, Four Weddings and a Funeral) is the first British director to helm a Pottermovie.
5. He was chosen, Newell has said, to make some drastic changes to the tone of the franchise. "It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists," he laughs. "Just adults in waiting. I was very anxious to break [the series] out of this Goody Two-Shoes feel."
6. Steven Spielberg considered directing the first Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, but reportedly dropped out when Rowling insisted that a Brit be cast in the titular role. Spielberg wanted to cast A.I. star Haley Joel Osment.
7. The dastardly Lord Voldemort, i.e. He Who Must Not Be Named, will make his first Potter film appearance — in "human" form — in Goblet, played by Ralph Fiennes.
8. Not chosen for Voldemort: John Malkovich and Rowan "Mr. Bean" Atkinson.
9. Fiennes describes Voldemort's look as that of a "floating reptile." The actor's head, arms and chest were shaved, and prosthetics and makeup were added to make him look sickly and pale, with large veins visibly running up and down his upper body. "The idea is that Voldemort has just gotten this new skin," Fiennes has said. "He's new in this body, so he's testing it, relishing the power of it."
10. Voldemort also will sport a snake-like nose, befitting his legacy as an alumnus of the Slytherin house at Hogwarts, which was digitally added to Fiennes' face in postproduction.
11. Newell has said that he looked to the classic Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest for inspiration; he even recommended that Daniel Radcliffe watch the Hitchcock thriller before shooting. "Cary Grant is the happy advertising guy," Newell has said, "but that evil James Mason has plans for him."
12. Fiennes has warned of Voldemort's über-scary mood swings: "There are moments when anger spits out of him and other moments when he can be almost pleasant. … It's quite unnerving."
13. A dozen formal drafts of the Goblet of Fire screenplay were bandied about before the shooting script was finalized.
14. At the 2004 casting call to find the actress who would play Harry's crush, Cho Chang, in Goblet of Fire, more than 3,000 actresses showed up to audition. Rowling had insisted that producers cast an unknown; they chose newcomer Katie Leung, a Scottish teen who has never even starred in a school play.
15. Off-screen, puberty hit the Potter set as well. "There are crushes and romances here and there," producer David Heyman has said. "I've never caught anyone making out behind one of the backings or anything like that. I'm sure it's probably gone on, but I don't want to know about it."
16. The largest underwater set in Europe was built to film the water-world setting of the Triwizard Tournament. Radcliffe had to train for six months for the scene and, because of security concerns, the actors could only be filmed for 12-second underwater intervals.
17. The set for the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which is said to have taken the equivalent of 31 years in manpower to construct, required more plaster than was used to create the sets in Gladiator.
18. The band that plays at the Yule Ball in Goblet of Fire features Pulp lead singer Jarvis Cocker, and Radiohead lead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and drummer Phil Selway. Cocker wrote three songs the band performs at the Yule Ball: "This Is the Night," "Magic Works" and "Do the Hippogriff."
19. The books and movies have inspired a touring tribute band called — what else? — Harry and the Potters (
http://www.eskimolabs.com/hp/). The Norwood, Mass.–based rockers have released two albums of Potter–inspired tunes, including "Save Ginny Weasley," "Cornelius Fudge Is an Ass" and "The Wrath of Hermione."
20. Fiennes is a huge gamer; he was so excited at the chance to be in the Goblet of Fire video game that he included voice-over work in his schedule during filming.
21. A new movie means new treats, including additional flavors of every Hogwart student's favorite candy treat — and the coolest Potter movie merchandise — Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Jelly Beans. A special 10-flavor box includes new bacon and rotten eggs flavors along with old, um, favorites, such as dirt, earwax, earthworm and vomit.
22. The Harry Potter books, which have sold more than 250 million copies all over the world, have been translated into more than 40 languages, including everything from Albanian to Zulu.
23. The first three Potter movies have sold more than $2.6 billion worth of movie tickets worldwide.
24. Author J.K. Rowling, who conceived the idea for the books in 1991 during a train ride, is among the 1,000 wealthiest people in the world, thanks to the success of the series. She's even richer than the Queen of England.
25. Since the third Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, was released in 1999, Rowling has been among the top 10 on the American Library Association's most challenged authors list. Rowling's detractors say the books attempt to lure children into the occult
26. Radcliffe has admitted that he didn't like the first Harry Potter book when he tried to read it at age 8, but he says he became a fan once he signed on for the movies.
27. The next film in the series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is scheduled to go into production in January, for a 2007 release. British TV director David Yates will helm the movie, while Michael Goldenberg (Contact, Peter Pan) will pen the screenplay.
28. Only one book remains in the seven-part series, but as of yet, there is neither a name nor a release date.
29. Rowling has been very cagey about book seven's plot — though a rumor that has persisted for years that its final word will be "scar."
30. Popular fan theories about book seven: It will be revealed that Harry can perform magic without a wand (most wizards can't), we will finally learn the professions of Harry's dead parents (the inheritance they left him makes him a very wealthy young man) and not all of the book's action will take place at Hogwarts, especially after book six's shocking events surrounding Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore.
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