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[ronweazley122]

gandolf is the person who is playing dubledorre :o :o :o!!!!it was on the main hpf page here it is@!!!!(the article) :

New Potter wizard is... Gandalf!  

THE actor who plays Gandalf in The Lord Of The Rings has landed another wizard role in the next Harry Potter film.


SIR IAN McKELLEN, whose latest Lord Of The Rings film The Two Towers is top of the movie charts, is set to take over from the late RICHARD HARRIS as Professor Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter.

The shock casting may put the actor up against himself in both fantasy adventure box office rivals.

The news that Sir Ian is taking over the role of Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore from Harris, who died in October, has come as a bombshell to senior cast and crew members.

It follows the bitter competition between the two blockbuster movie series.


One cast member told me Sir Ian accepted the part of Dumbledore last week but an official announcement will not be made by filmmaker Warners until next year.

A source on the movie set told me: "Everyone has been sworn to secrecy about Ian McKellen getting the role of Dumbledore.

"One of the production staff let it slip and now it's spreading like wild fire.

"He got the part just before Christmas but Warners won't announce it until the New Year.

"Bosses thought he was the perfect replacement for Richard Harris and, as we all know, he's more than capable of playing the part of a wizard.

"They're not worried about people getting Harry Potter and The Lord Of The Rings confused. They're two very different films."

Filming of Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban starts in February and is due out in 2004.

The first Harry Potter film, The Philosopher's Stone, premiered in November 2001, just weeks before The Fellowship Of The Ring.

The Philosopher's Stone, inspired by JK Rowling's book, has taken £620million at the box office so far compared with £534million for The Fellowship Of The Ring.

The rivalry continued when the second Harry Potter film, The Chamber Of Secrets, was released just ahead of The Two Towers recently.

The final film of the series, The Return Of The King, will come out next Christmas.

Sir Ian's appointment comes after the favourite to land the role, Dracula actor CHRISTOPHER LEE, ruled himself out.

Lee, who stars opposite Sir Ian in The Lord Of The Rings as the evil wizard Saruman, is about to start work on the next Star Wars adventure in which he plays the ruthless Count Dooku.

He is also being linked to another fantasy epic, The Last Unicorn, which starts shooting in the spring.

Another possible candidate included Harris's double in the first two films, unknown HARRY ROBERTSON.

It was also thought producers would use some wizardry of their own - of the computer kind - to bring Harris back from beyond the grave.

But just before Christmas, boffins realised they did not have enough unused footage and decided they needed a replacement actor.

-The Sun Newspaper (UK)

[.:~*Shuiliya*~:.]

Yup!  He was the original.  I sooo can't wait!  He'll make a GREAT Dumbledore!  Much better than Richard Harris was.  ^_______^

[Emma G.]

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Emma G.]

Richerd was great how could u say that
r u glad he is dead now or somthing

[.:~*Shuiliya*~:.]

Richard Harris... not even gonna go there.  

I'm not glad he is dead, but I'm glad they have to get a new Dumbly.  Which is NOT Gandalf... as said before... yes.

[ronweazley122]

okay... ;D

[.:~*Shuiliya*~:.]

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