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[ebonlock]

Straight from WB:

Directed by award winning British filmmaker David Yates (The Girl in the Café, Sex Traffic, State of Play), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is produced by Harry Potter film series producer David Heyman and David Barron, from a screenplay by Michael Goldenberg (Where the Wild Things Are, Peter Pan, Contact).
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson reprise their roles as close-knit teen wizards Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. The production also welcomes back production designer Stuart Craig, costume designer Jany Temime, creature effects supervisor Nick Dudman, special effects supervisor John Richardson and visual effects supervisor Tim Burke. The director of photography is Slawomir Idziak (King Arthur, Black Hawk Down) and the editor is Mark Day (The Girl in the Café, State of Play).
Joining the stellar cast are Imelda Staunton (Nanny McPhee, Vera Drake) as Dolores Umbridge, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher; George Harris (The Interpreter, Black Hawk Down) as Kingsley Shacklebolt; Helen McCrory (Casanova, Enduring Love) as Bellatrix Lestrange; Natalia Tena (Mrs. Henderson Presents, About a Boy) as Nymphadora Tonks; Kathryn Hunter (All or Nothing, Orlando) as Mrs. Figg; and 14 year-old newcomer Evanna Lynch, who beat over 15,000 hopefuls at an open casting call to win the role of Luna Lovegood, a Ravenclaw student who becomes an important ally of Harry, Ron and Hermione’s.

Comments

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

Just based on her picture, the kid they got for Luna is effing PERFECT.

And Kingsley is Captain Katanga from "Raiders of the Lost Ark"! Not exactly Mr. GQ model like the fan photomanips present, but...Captain Katanga! "Let us keep the girl...she will fetch a good price where we're going!" Wheeeee! :)

I googled the actress they got for Bella. She looks spot-on. Couldn't find a good picture of the girl they got for Tonks. Imelda Staunton will be perfection incarnate as Umbridge, I think.

OMG...do we have to wait two years??? *bounces*

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

BTW, have you seen this pic of Luna? (http://pics.livejournal.com/ebonlock/pic/00016zw6/g3) She is so adorable, absolutely, undeniably adorable. And I always thought Kingsley was a bit...younger, but ok...You're right, Captain Katanga is pretty fucking cool.

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

Oh, cute! Isn't she just a dead ringer? After all those pictures of kids at the open call, I was afraid they were going to get someone weird, but she's just perfect. She's even a little googly-eyed! ♥

Yeah, I thought Kingsley was younger too, but then I realized the books never actually say he's young, I just assumed he was. :) And now fandom can begin to get over its "Kingsley is a gorgeous, shaved-headed stud" thing...or not, if it so chooses. :)

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I have already decided, in honor of the great wailing and gnashing of teeth over Remus, that I like this casting and the disappointed fangirls can just bite me.

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

Agreed!!! People always imagine the characters as being smokin' hot (well, except maybe Snape) but that is not how it should be. They should look like real people, you know? I think David Thewlis and Gary Oldman are teh sex, though, so maybe I have a strange perspective. :)