Hmm. I wouldn’t mind having an experienced actor play the part.

I’m more interested in finding out which flashback scenes will be included, and which won’t. This book has to be extremely difficult to adapt.

I’m still wondering why they don;t get Christian Coulson back… If he wasn’t too old in CoS, is he really too old in HBP? I mean, has he noticeably aged in the last four years or something? Baka…

Fenm, I thought of that too – my best guess is that he may not be interested anymore. At the time, the writers didn’t necessarily know they’d need him back – heck, Jo herself may not have! (Although I think she probably did, but we know she’s changed a lot of significant things since 2002.) And anyway, he may now look too old for the part – five years can do a lot.

Of course, it hasn’t been said for certain that he isn’t going to be in it!

Author by Night- Yates has officially confirmed that Coulson will NOT be back. It was a month or so ago that he said it.

Author By Night, Christian Coulson has actually expressed interest in coming back. It’s David Yates who has said he can’t come back because he is too old, leading me to think that they won’t be showing Tom Riddle any older than 16 or so.

Regardless, Christian will always be how I picture young Voldemort because he was so incredibly perfect in COS.

well i hope they get someone equally evil looking, but it is a shame the same guy can’t play it,i agree,.. but the lament has been sung, i just hope they fit the important stuff in. im going to miss dumbledore though. but they will need different actor’s for the young and younger tom won’t they?

Honestly I would rather have an older-looking Coulson than a new person. I’ve seen more recent pictures and he does not look too old to play the part. I just don’t understand what Yates has against him really. None of the characters really look the ages they’re supposed to be. Makeup, wigs and special effects can do a lot. Besides, depending on what scenes they’re keeping in and/or how the scenes will be re-written. Most of the scenes for that aged Tom Riddle happen when he has already left Hogwarts and is an adult.

I know I’m bitter and of course I’ll give whoever the new person is a chance, it’s just in my head he’ll always be Tom Riddle and I just wish I could have seen how he would have performed those scenes.

I know this is probably off topic but WHO IS GOING TO PLAY LAVENDER BROWN I want to find that right now, WARNER BROTHERS why are you taking so LONG, I CAN´T WAIT ANY LONGER….. :( with that said, I do not think this guy looks like young riddle, he is probably really talented but I would like to see a clon of Christian Coulson for the part….. he is an amazing actor.

Thats going to be interesting to see if he gets it! I want to know which flashbacks they will include! Good luck!

At first I was like, is that a girl? I guess not. it sucks about the lack of casting news, its really slow this time around! :/

i can see him doing it…. he’d look ok for it… id love to see Christian Coulson back… he was SO FREAKING PERFECT!!!! but he is a lil old now… so boo

AHHHHHHHH!!!!! so many good actors in “Sweeney Todd”!!!!! all of those HP people, plus johnny depp!!!!???? i cant handle it!!! faints

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I wish they would bring back Christian Coulson as well, regardless of how old he looks…come on, continuity! The only reason we have a different Dumbeldore, is because Richard Harris passed away unexpectedly – otherwise, all other characters have been the same through the movies!!

I totally agree…. Christian could be perfect… he doesn’t look 29 years old. Some days ago I read an interview with him and he told that he would like to play Tom again. He read the books and etc. Probably is he very dissapinted now. As me.

That actor (a potentially candidate for Tom)... he seems like a girl! He would be perfect for Lavender, not for Tom :DDD

If they are going to show an 11 year old Riddle, yes get a different actor but recasting the older teenage Riddle makes no sense. Unfortunately once the Producer allows one director to mess around with continuity then every new director can simply ignore previous movies.

Am I the only one who doesn’t mind a new Tom Riddle? Coulson was not very intimidating, and I was not really impressed with any of his deliveries. I think the role requires a lot of subtlety especially for a Riddle at such a young age. I’m glad Yates is doing a wide search for the new Tom because he did a fantastic job of finding Luna. I’m also sure that Yates wants a little more control over who is casted. He probably wants the very best actor he can find, since performances mean so much to him. Plus I agree with him that Coulson (who is nearly 30!) wouldn’t be ideal to have playing a 16/17-year-old, especially since the trio are supposed to be 16/17 too and if they don’t look the same age it will be really obvious.