Terry Gilliam to direct Harry Potter?

The Leaky Cauldron, maybe the best known and most authoritative of the Harry Potter fan sites, has the headline today that genius/weirdo Terry Gilliam is the choice to direct ‘Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince’, the sixth Harry Potter movie due in 2008, one year after ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’, due next summer. Cauldron says:

“IMDB has updated their site to list Terry Gilliam as the director for ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’. Readers will remember that in the past Mr. Gilliam has expressed interest in directing a Harry Potter film. While this editor would be thrilled if this were indeed the case, please remember everyone, this is still very early in the going, and this should very much remain in the rumor category for now.”

Lets ignore for a second that IMDb has not updated their site and does not list Terry Gilliam as the director for ‘Half Blood Prince’, because the rest of this is true. Gilliam has long expressed interest in directing one of the movies, and was the choice for ‘Chamber of Secrets’ until Chris Columbus came back. And he and Tim Burton seem to be the most obvious choices in the world to direct one of these. So why not give him one. Or don’t. What the hell do I care.


Source = the Leaky Cauldron

update – Jamie would like everyone to know that he’s better than the rest of us and has IMDb Pro, and that Terry Gilliam is listed as the director there. Well la-di-da Jamie! Yeah, okay, we get it, you have a powerful network job and we don’t. God, I hate Jamie so much.