Article: "New Potter Wizard is... Gandalf!"

bropous · 12-27-2002, 04:41 PM

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2002600303,00.html

"THE actor who plays Gandalf in The Lord Of The Rings has landed another wizard role in the next Harry Potter film.

"SIR IAN McKELLEN, whose latest Lord Of The Rings film The Two Towers is top of the movie charts, is set to take over from the late RICHARD HARRIS as Professor Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter."

Hmmmmm.

Kind of strange.

Elf Girl · 12-27-2002, 06:29 PM

YES! I was hoping that was who they'd hire!

akutach · 12-27-2002, 08:19 PM

I hope the new director has enough savvy to play it up.

When Dumbledore forbids the Dementors from Hogwarts grounds, he could say, "You shall not pass!" a la the scene on the bridge of Kazad Dum. That would be great.

The old director, Christopher Columbus, would have never done it.

Amandil · 12-27-2002, 09:01 PM

So they dumped Chris Columbus? Hmm, see, I didn't know he made the movies a verbatim copy of the book. I just thought the movies sucked because the books sucked. Whooops.

***Khamûl*** · 12-27-2002, 11:51 PM

Hmmm... Call me skeptical.

Taurwen · 12-28-2002, 12:30 AM

*raises eyebrow* Harry potter. Nooooo. *gags self with spork* Sir Ian McKellen is to cool to be Dumbledor, dammit.

Okay, I'm done ranting. You can ignore me, since most of you will probably disagree. *skips off to her field of daisies*

***Ben*** · 12-28-2002, 12:46 AM

From McKellen.com:

Quote:

Fact: Ian McKellen has NOT agreed to succeed the late Richard Harris in the role of Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies. He has expressed interest in perhaps playing a different role some time in the future of the series.

This rumor seems to have been started by a tabloid-type paper, so I would take it with a grain of salt.

Gwaimir Windgem · 12-28-2002, 01:15 AM

While I never thought that McKellen was a really good Gandalf, I certainly wouldn't like him to be in HP; having played Gandalf, even in PJ's movies, dignifies him too much for that, IMO. Of course, I don't like Harry Potter. I'm sure the fans of LotR and HP will be ecstatic.

Elf.Freak · 12-28-2002, 07:19 AM

If that's true, then I'll only enjoy the film BECAUSE if Ian McKellen being Dumbeldore...heh heh...Gandalf Dumbeldore

Blackboar · 12-28-2002, 08:53 AM

Gandalf will definately improve the film.

I agree with Elf.Freak!!

Kalimac · 12-28-2002, 12:06 PM

Although I too have my doubts about the validity of the 'news' reports it should be mentioned that the quote from McKellen.com denying the rumor is from November. Here's the entire quote . . note the date:

Quote:

Rumour, 14 November 2002: "There's a rumour on the Net that Sir Ian is going to play Professor Dumbledore in the next Harry Potter movie, following the sad passing of Richard Harris. Is this true? It would be wonderful if it IS true, but I know how easily these rumours start, so I'm not getting too excited yet! Perhaps you could just let me know "officially"? (Maybe he doesn't want to be typecast as an elderly man with a flowing white beard!) Thanks."

Fact: Ian McKellen has NOT agreed to succeed the late Richard Harris in the role of Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies. He has expressed interest in perhaps playing a different role some time in the future of the series.

There are other doubters out there too . . here's a blurb from ComingSoon.net:

McKellen Has NOT Been Cast as Dumbledore!

I'd prefer to wait for 'official' confirmation.

Varda Oiolosseo · 12-28-2002, 01:48 PM

ooooooh! It's going to be Sir Ian McKellen!!
I heard that it was Christopher Lee playing Dumbledore!

They would both probably do a good job!

WallRocker · 12-28-2002, 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by bmilder

This rumor seems to have been started by a tabloid-type paper, so I would take it with a grain of salt.

I hpe it's not true. I really don't like the Potter books or movies.

Shadowfax · 12-28-2002, 11:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by WallRocker
I hope it's not true. I really don't like the Potter books or movies.

Agreed! I hope it isn't true either.

Firekitten2006 · 12-28-2002, 11:20 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Taurwen
*raises eyebrow* Harry potter. Nooooo. *gags self with spork* Sir Ian McKellen is to cool to be Dumbledor, dammit.

Okay, I'm done ranting. You can ignore me, since most of you will probably disagree. *skips off to her field of daisies*

Totally agree! Tho I have to ask, why a spork?

eowyngirl14 · 12-28-2002, 11:41 PM

I think that it would be really really neat if ian Mekellen played Dumbledore. I thought Richard Harris was great though... Does anyone know know why it is Sir Ian Meckellen? I want to become a 'sir' when I grow up... even though I am a girl. How do you become one?

AngieBaggins · 12-28-2002, 11:55 PM

Oh God, i hope he isn't! When i read this last night i was in the middle of the local Radio Shack and freaked out! I was like, "MOM! NO! he can't do that! it'll ruin him!" I don tknow if i'm overly paranoid, but i do not want Sir Ian McKellen as Dumbledore, i don't know why, i just don't. Unfortunately that is not my decision, but i do hope he doesn't do it.

cassiopeia · 12-29-2002, 12:46 AM

I'm fairly sure that Sir Ian McKellen and Christopher Lee will not be playing Dumbledore. Both have denied it in press realeases. It would be interesting if Christopher Lee played Dumbledore, then he would be in three of the biggest movies ever.

Kallasilya · 12-29-2002, 02:46 AM

I can't seem to imagine Chistopher Lee as Dumbledore - he's too evil!!

BeardofPants · 12-29-2002, 02:48 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by cassiopeia
It would be interesting if Christopher Lee played Dumbledore, then he would be in three of the biggest movies ever.

... You mean as opposed to his normal B-Grade crap?

12-27-2002, 04:41 PM	#1
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Article: "New Potter Wizard is... Gandalf!" http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2002600303,00.html "THE actor who plays Gandalf in The Lord Of The Rings has landed another wizard role in the next Harry Potter film. "SIR IAN McKELLEN, whose latest Lord Of The Rings film The Two Towers is top of the movie charts, is set to take over from the late RICHARD HARRIS as Professor Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter." Hmmmmm. Kind of strange. __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

12-27-2002, 06:29 PM	#2
Elf Girl Lurker Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Lothlórien Posts: 3,419	YES! I was hoping that was who they'd hire! __________________ There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium...

12-27-2002, 09:01 PM	#4
Amandil Guy-who-should-come-here-more-often Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Alberta, in spirit -- Vlaanderen, in body (Canada? Never heard of it!) Posts: 120	So they dumped Chris Columbus? Hmm, see, I didn't know he made the movies a verbatim copy of the book. I just thought the movies sucked because the books sucked. Whooops. __________________ Amandil Mithadan "Why would you want to tamper with anything Tolkien did?" --Ralph Bashki "Seeking self, I find nothing but myself, but in this I drink the cup of gall I really am. I want everything, and I may have everything, but I have nothing except what I have. What I have I know is not what will fulfill me, and I know this in the bitterness of satisfied desire. Everything I have is still not enough, and in getting everything I have, I have not myself, indeed what I have may have twisted what I am and might be into an image of my own possessions. I will to possess, but I end up possessed by what I possess." -- William Desmond (Ethics and the Between, p. 209-210)

12-27-2002, 11:51 PM	#5
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	Hmmm... Call me skeptical. __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

12-28-2002, 12:30 AM	#6
Taurwen Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: New York Posts: 20	raises eyebrow Harry potter. Nooooo. gags self with spork Sir Ian McKellen is to cool to be Dumbledor, dammit. Okay, I'm done ranting. You can ignore me, since most of you will probably disagree. skips off to her field of daisies __________________ Long was the way that fate them bore, O're stony mountains cold and grey, Through halls of iron and darkling door, And woods of nightshade morrowless. The Sudering Seas between them lay, and yet at last they met once more, And long ago they passed away In the forest singing sorrowless.

12-27-2002, 08:19 PM	#3
akutach Hobbit Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco Posts: 17	I hope the new director has enough savvy to play it up. When Dumbledore forbids the Dementors from Hogwarts grounds, he could say, "You shall not pass!" a la the scene on the bridge of Kazad Dum. That would be great. The old director, Christopher Columbus, would have never done it.

12-28-2002, 01:15 AM	#8
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	While I never thought that McKellen was a really good Gandalf, I certainly wouldn't like him to be in HP; having played Gandalf, even in PJ's movies, dignifies him too much for that, IMO. Of course, I don't like Harry Potter. I'm sure the fans of LotR and HP will be ecstatic. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

12-28-2002, 07:19 AM	#9
Elf.Freak Orli's lil fan Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Sugar World/Orlando Bloom Cloud Posts: 464	If that's true, then I'll only enjoy the film BECAUSE if Ian McKellen being Dumbeldore...heh heh...Gandalf Dumbeldore __________________ >>--elven arrow--> ~ Give a man a fish and he'll feed for a day, give me a fish and you'll only get it back! ~ I've gotta new avatar! looks kinda like me...anime style! ~ LOST: Orlando Bloom. If found, please send him straight to Elf.Freak

12-28-2002, 08:53 AM	#10
Blackboar Legolas's beloved sister and Queen of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Under the hill at Bag-end, Hobbiton the Shire Or Rivendell,I can't remember!!!!!!!!!! Posts: 1,086	Gandalf will definately improve the film. I agree with Elf.Freak!!

12-28-2002, 01:48 PM	#12
Varda Oiolosseo Tea Bag Queen Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 973	ooooooh! It's going to be Sir Ian McKellen!! I heard that it was Christopher Lee playing Dumbledore! They would both probably do a good job!

12-28-2002, 11:41 PM	#16
eowyngirl14 i don't know what i am talking about either, so don't ask Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,353	I think that it would be really really neat if ian Mekellen played Dumbledore. I thought Richard Harris was great though... Does anyone know know why it is Sir Ian Meckellen? I want to become a 'sir' when I grow up... even though I am a girl. How do you become one? __________________ 'The coming of dawn is ever the hope to the heart of men' -Aragorn 'Then I will die as one of them' -Aragorn TTT movie “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety” - Benjamin Franklin arms are made for hugging avatar from the avatar shop! made by Eowyn, Lady of Rohan

12-28-2002, 11:55 PM	#17
AngieBaggins Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Cali Posts: 36	Oh God, i hope he isn't! When i read this last night i was in the middle of the local Radio Shack and freaked out! I was like, "MOM! NO! he can't do that! it'll ruin him!" I don tknow if i'm overly paranoid, but i do not want Sir Ian McKellen as Dumbledore, i don't know why, i just don't. Unfortunately that is not my decision, but i do hope he doesn't do it. __________________ Loverly, just loverly. She looked over the hall way doors, and noticed him there. It was odd, for she had never met anyone like him. And she never expected she would again.

12-29-2002, 12:46 AM	#18
cassiopeia Viggoholic Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 1,749	I'm fairly sure that Sir Ian McKellen and Christopher Lee will not be playing Dumbledore. Both have denied it in press realeases. It would be interesting if Christopher Lee played Dumbledore, then he would be in three of the biggest movies ever. __________________ Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

12-29-2002, 02:46 AM	#19
Kallasilya Hobbit Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 20	I can't seem to imagine Chistopher Lee as Dumbledore - he's too evil!! __________________ Nai hotuluvalve i meneltannar tirien...

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