Well it would seem that MTV pays attention to news on the Harry Potter sites, as the MTV movie blog has just now posted an excerpt from actor Dan Radcliffe who also discusses the army of the dead and the cave scenes in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Echoing sentiments made by director David Yates (see this previous news post ), Dan Radcliffe is also quite keen on filming these dramatic scenes for the sixth Harry Potter film, noting:
I’m really looking forward to filming the cave and all the stuff in there with the lake and the Inferi,” Radcliffe enthused. “Me and [Michael] Gambon in a row boat for a few days. It’s gonna be amazing.”
Later, the Harry Potter actor speaks on how they will be filming the Inferi (aka dead corpses bewitched by the very dark magic of Lord Voldemort.) Dan Radcliffe says ” I thought it was all gonna be largely visual effects, but they have built the cave,” he revealed, confirming that the shoot will be all practical. “So it’s gonna be very interesting to film.”
Indeed! As noted earlier production on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is now underway with a release date set for November, 2008.
It would be soooo much better if the Inferi were actors/extras and not CGI. Let’s ground this in reality!
The point should be strongly made that these are real dead people and not creatures/monsters, if they were CG it would take some of the danger away, they would be more like the Pirates of the Caribbean cursed pirates. I want it to be much more brutal than that! And I want REAL flames when Dumbledore casts them!!
Isn’t it amazing that they’ve already built the cave! They tend to do this, get the sets that are for the end of the movie ready at the beginning of production (like the maze in GoF which was the first thing they shot), because they need as much time as possible for the effects work.
Posted by performingmonkey on September 24, 2007, 06:31 PM
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Not necessarily. If they do it anything like in LOTR when Frodo fell into that swamp, CG could pull it off. If they sue extras/real people, while it could be good, there is also the chance it could look like one of the Resident Evil movies, and THAT wouldn’t be good at all.
So, where are they going to get the real zombies? Don’t they have a union too? Some rule about the minimal length of time to be submerged, acceptable water temps, etc.? It must be tough to be dead and get good working conditions. SAG might take advantage of their nonalive state to require more working hours, but I’m sure the directors haven’t considered the amount of time it takes to dry out enough to be a mummified corpse for the next CSI episode… (note tongue firmly planted in cheek).
Yeah I agree aughra the undead is EXTREMELY difficult to work with. They have attitudes and they always go on fits or depression “You don’t know what it’s like to be dead!!” yadda yadda. Either it be actors or CG anything will be better than the real deal. Plus they don’t really bathe themselves much and the whole smell of rotting corpse really is a downer on a film set ;)
It’ll be CG, otherwise they wouldn’t be filming it this early on. Remember they always shoot the heavy CG bits first, it’s the lesson Columbus learnt on the first movie. Sure, there’ll be actors and all that but a full lake of dead people underwater who then get engulfed in fire needs some computer magic.
"I hope you told them to dress properly, these people," he snarled at once. "I've seen the sort of stuff your lot wear. They'd better have the decency to put on normal clothes, that's all."
2nd post! ANyway, that’s coooool…