{"id":1470,"date":"2008-11-12T18:14:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T22:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2018-12-09T01:07:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T06:07:01","slug":"thompson-picks-mcphee-over-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/12\/thompson-picks-mcphee-over-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"Thompson Picks MCPHEE Over POTTER"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bad news for those who were looking forward to seeing Professor Trelawney chucking crystal balls at dementors during the final installment of Warner Brothers adaptation of the Harry Potter<\/em> book series.<\/p>\n

Emma Thompson, who plays the flighty Hogwarts instructor, has chosen to film a sequel to her 2005 film Nanny McPh<\/strong>ee rather than participate in 2010’s\u00a0Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows<\/strong>. In an interview with MTV MoviesBlog<\/a>, Thompson stated that choosing between the two came down to what interested her more on a personal level.<\/p>\n

The Harry Potter<\/strong>s are great big franchises that are something I\u2019m not emotionally attached to or necessarily particularly creatively attached to. That\u2019s more like doing a turn, whereas the Nanny McPhee<\/strong>s are something I\u2019ve written. The art is in those films, they\u2019re very handmade, they\u2019re something that\u2019s very close to me. Those are the ones I really care about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is hard to blame Thompson for making the choice she did. While Potter probably does supply a nice paycheck, a new Nanny McPhee<\/strong> with her co-writing the screenplay will allow her to greater flex her creative muscles. Both films are scheduled to start production early next year.<\/p>\n

As for what a second Nanny McPhee<\/strong> film will be about, Thompson let slip a few details.<\/p>\n

The working title is Nanny McPhee and The Big Bang<\/strong>. It\u2019s not a sequel, actually, it\u2019s a new story\u2026 [The second film] is set one hundred years later; the only thing that is the same is Nanny McPhee. It\u2019s about two families: A family of country children, and a family of town children, [both] during the war. So it\u2019s about evacuees, and the father is away at war. So this time, the lone parent is the mother. That\u2019s what it\u2019s about: The big war, and a war between these two sets of extremely different children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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