Ninth Harry Potter Movie Happening? - UPDATED

By Josh Tyler: 2008-06-18 03:41:44

The Harry Potter series may have stopped at books, but that doesn’t mean Warner Brothers has to stop at seven movies, especially when there’s so much money to be made. We already know that the WB plans to split the last Potter book into two movies, so they can stretch their cash cow out into eight films. Now there are rumors that they may be devising a way to stretch that number to nine… sort of.

Britain’s Sunday Mirror is running a story in which they claim Potter author J.K. Rowling has written a brand new Potter story, outside the realm of the seven official books, which will be turned into what they call a “mini-movie”. There’s no word on what exactly this “mini-movie” will be about, but they do insist that all the principals we know from the normal films will be involved. That means no replacement cast, which is a bit of a relief. Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, and Daniel Radcliffe all in their proper roles.

So where and when can you see it? Apparently not in a normal movie theater. The movie is being shot as part of an attraction called The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. It’s being built at Universal Studios theme park in Orlando. Did anyone else just have a flashback to Captain Eo? Michael Jackson? Epcot? Anyone? Hopefully it’ll be more Muppets 3D than Michael Jackson saving the universe with song.

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is set to open in Florida some time in 2009. Universal Studios is billing at as a “theme park within a theme park”, and uses a lot of buzz words like “fully immersive” when describing it. Usually, where theme parks are concerned, that means poorly constructed robots and roller coasters with brooms painted on the side of them.

UPDATE! The guys over at SnitchSeeker have received something which resembles a denial from Warner Brothers. I say resembles it, because they seem to go out of their way to deny it without denying it. Their denial says that JK Rowling is not writing a script based on her Potter sequel to be turned into a mini-movie. Except of course the above rumor has nothing to do with the prequel, so they're denying a story which doesn't exist.

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LoopyLoveGood
June 19, 2008 at 18:07

totally agree with JenniMiki the last movie was rubbish if WB are splitting the last movie in to 2 shouldn't they have done it with the fifth and six as the fifth is the biggest book they missed out to much (Percy leaving,relationship with Dobby need go on?)

I am very interested to see how the director (David Yates) fixes his silly mistake.

A ninth movie would be rather silly especially if J.K.Rowling didn't write anything.

I am going to miss the thrill of waiting for the books to come out and even though the movies aren't really good at following the story line i will miss them but HP can't go on forever and after the last TWO movies are out it's finished no more movies SHOULD or WILL be made and no more books are going to be made.

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JenniMiki
June 18, 2008 at 14:12

I am incredibly tired of the whole "cash cow" nonsense. Only people that don't "get" Harry Potter say that.

Fans of the series are glad that the last book won't be chopped up into little pieces as the last one was. Way too much of the story was left out of Order of the Phoenix, and for us die-hard fans, it made it much less enjoyable. (For example, the whole Marauders time period was pretty much left out, and it's incredibly important later.)

If WB happens to make extra money along the way, and we are willing to pay it, who honestly cares?

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