Now that the official DVD of the Goblet of Fire is out, friends had asked me when the next Potter movie is coming out. Well, here is the news for The Order of the Phoenix, the fifth book adaptation: it should come out in the summer or spring of 2007. Production has already started and we should expect a teaser trailer by the end of the year.
If you have met new characters in the fourth film and loved the amazing dragon, the lake and the humongous maze, then brace for more. Harry's personality will turn a bit - teen angst. He is the CAPSLOCK Harry this time: petulant, dejected and left out.
Things to looks forward to:
1. The Dursleys will be back: big D and his gang; Dementors at Privet Drive; Harry's expulsion trial
2. Hermione and Ron getting their Prefect badges
3. Harry's anguish over Cedric's death. For all those Robert Pattinson (Cedric) fans, I heard that you'd see some of him in this fifth film; the Hufflepuff golden boy will appear in flashbacks (not as a ghost, I hope).
4. Harry's first kiss, and first date (yes, they should come in that order)
5. The Inquisitor Club (slimy Slytherin gits)
6. Grawp, Hagrid's younger 16-foot brother
7. Luna Lovegood (an eccentric fourth-year Ravenclaw who looks at Harry and Ron with dreamy eyes)
8. Ginny Weasley coming into the forefront (Bat-bogey hex)
9. Dumbledore's Army (a group of students led by Harry learning Defense Against the Dark Arts unbeknownst to the teachers); the Room of Requirement; fireworks mayhem
10. A new DADA teacher from hell: Dolores Jane Umbridge
11. The Order of the Phoenix (of course, the title wouldn't be quite right if they miss this out): Mad-eye Moody (the real one), Remus Lupin, Kingsley Shackelbolt, Nymphadora Tonks
12. Number 12 Grimmauld Place, Sirius Black and Kreacher (an abominable house-elf). Will we get to see the tapestry of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black? I hope so, for it figures largely in the sixth and seventh books.
13. The OWLs (Ordinary Wizarding Levels) - it's the magical world's O-levels
14. Harry's one-on-one Occlumency lessons with Snape. And, of course, Snape's Worst Memory: a pensive scene back when he and Harry's parents were still at Hogwarts (young James, Lily, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew were casted)
15. Nagini attacking Arthur Weasley
16. Dumbledore's arrest and spectacular escape (for book fans: Dawlish was casted so we should expect this scene)
17. The duel between Voldemort and Dumbledore, which should be awesome
18. Real battle between the good and bad wizards and witches (kiss ass!); someone falling into the veil: Sirius Black (oops!)
19. Bellatrix Lestrange: a Death Eater deep within the circle of the Dark Lord ("little bitty baby Potter")
20. The Prophesy that should be a kick in the gut for a cliff-hanger ending
Here are more parts in the book which has a huge chance of being left off, but would look good on the screen:
1. Hagrid and Madam Maxine going to the giants' lair (boring when Hagrid told this story, but a huge special effects feat on film)
2. Harry and the Weasley twins in a Quidditch scuffle that led them to be banned from playing anymore Quidditch
3. Thestrals: the invisible horse-like creatures that pull the carriages from the train station to the school. Harry and his friends will ride them to get to the Ministry of Magic
4. The Weasley twin's departure from Hogwarts; this should be awesome, but they have left out Peeves (a poltergeist that plays practical jokes on students: "GOT YOUR CONK!") in the previous movies.
5. Dobby the house-elf from Chamber of Secrets. We missed him in Goblet of Fire, and I'm pretty sure again this time, but he was the one who told Harry of the Room of Requirement (I hope they don't give that to Neville again)
6. Quidditch games (special effects cost a lot), but I do hope we'll get to see Ron's Keeper try-outs. How about the Seeker match-out between Cho Chang and Ginny Weasley? It's a great foreshadowing of Harry's love life
7. Harry and his friends meeting Neville visiting his parents at St. Mungos, a hospital for wizards (I'm really praying that they include this one; this is heartbreaking); crazy Gilderoy Lockhart (their teacher from Chamber of Secrets who lost his memory)
8. Firenze (the centaur who saved Harry in Philosopher's Stone) teaching them divination
The book was huge and there was so much going on that I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be able to pack into a two and a half-hour of film. Maybe they should start to consider extending it to three hours, fans wouldn't mind.
And oh, the sixth film should come hot on its heels (2008).
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