Trailers: Harry Potter, Peter Pan

by
This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on November 13, 2003). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.

Quick notice of a couple trailers worth checking out (at least, in my world they’re worth checking out):

Sirius Black

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban: On the insanely unlikely chance you don’t know, this is the third film in the Harry Potter series, adapted from the book of the same name. First impressions: Michael Gambon as Dumbledore seems to both look and sound right (a good thing, I was a little worried about the switch in actors). What’s up with Draco’s new hairstyle? I’m not sure if I like it or not. Gary Oldman looks great as Sirius Black. Our first glimpse of the Dementors, and they look nicely creepy. Overall, I’m looking forward to it — each sucessive book has been getting darker, and it appears that they’re not afraid to let the movies do the same.

Mermaid

Peter Pan: I’d not even heard of this one, until I found it linked from the Harry Potter fan site The Leaky Cauldron (Cpt. Hook is played by Jason Isaccs, who played Lucius Malfoy in HPatCoS). This one looks quite interesting — it appears that the people making it are aiming to do their best to capture J.M. Barrie’s book on film as closely as possible. Wendy isn’t “classically” cute, but I think she looks perfect — like a real girl. Isaacs looks like he’s having a blast as Cpt. Hook, and the mermaids look downright creepy! There are two trailers available on the website, I’d suggest grabbing the one listed as “Trailer #1” first — while the “New Trailer!” shows more of the story, the quality is much worse, and the first trailer gives a much better idea of the look of the film.

9 thoughts on “Trailers: Harry Potter, Peter Pan”

  1. Gotta say the Peter Pan site is appalling. I can’t stand sites that use flash like that. And take an age to load.
    And I’m on a 2mb VPN connection to a 36mb pipe.

    I think you have a problem with the first line in this box as well. It doesnt line wrap.

  2. I’m no great fan of pure Flash sites myself, either — while I’ve seen some remarkably well designed Flash stuff, the majority takes far too long to download for far too little content.

    As far as the line wrap — well, I just don’t see it. I know there are some odd placement issues with the name/email/url input boxes under IE6/PC, but I think everything else should appear fine in all browsers. And without knowing what browser/platform you’re on, it’s a bit difficult for me to be sure of what you’re referring to. Sorry ’bout that!

  4. Nifty — thanks Roy!

    For everyone else, that link points to an RSS feed for the latest new movie trailers posted to Apple’s website. Instant notification of new online trailers, right in your newsreader. Nice!

  5. To be honest, I think those mermaids are quite cute. But I too am looking forward to both Peter Pan and Harry Potter. Especially the Potter one because I’m quite curious to see which parts of the book they’ll put in and which parts they’ll leave out. Especially since each successive book gets longer and longer. All in all, I think the special effects along with the storyline should make these a couple of pretty enjoyable movies.

  6. I really hope they stuk to the Prisoner of Askaban because it is my favorite of the five. I’m hopeing to
    see Sirus Black,Boggarts,and Dementors.

  7. I really hope they stuk to the Prisoner of Askaban because it is my favorite of the five. I’m hopeing to
    see Sirus Black,Boggarts,and Dementors.

Comments are closed.