Current mood:

*thud*

Terry Gilliam has mentioned in a new interview that he has no interest in directing the last two Harry Potter movies. He then proceeded to slam the first two. Relevant quote:

MTV: Another no-brainer hit film would have been making a "Harry Potter" flick, and J.K. Rowling fought with the studio to let you direct the first movie. So would you ever direct one of the sequels?

Gilliam: Warner Bros. had their chance the first time around, and they blew it. It's a factory job, that's what it is, and I know the way it's done. I've had too many friends work on those movies. I know the way it works, and that's not the way I work.

MTV: What would your "Potter" have been like?

Gilliam: Alfonso Cuaron's ["Prisoner of Azkaban"] is really good, but the first two I thought were just shite. They missed the whole point of it; they missed the magic of it ... Alfonso did something much closer to what I would've done.

Never ones to let insults to the franchise go quietly, fans on both The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet are wanking steadily. A sampling of the comments from each:

Mugglenet:
auror1470: Boo-hoo....he is jealous because he is not getting a piece of the millions the movies are grossing....All the directors have done a great job...do they follow the books to a "T" no...but they are still great movies...

H_J_Potter: WTF?! It's a good thing he's not directing, because PoA was SO screwed..How dare he insult SS and CoS! >:O!

cool_varzz: what a screwed up man ,he has the odesity to talk about HARRY POTTER films when he knws shhh about film making, whereas the HP FILMS are huggggeeee....i think hes doing a favour on us by turning the offer down and not screwing the films...WHAT SAY PEOPLE??

DUI_King:Terry Gilliam, shut up, just because you were in Monty Python doesn't mean you even know what your talking about. The first two movies were the best movies in my opinion, what magic did they NOT capture? POA is the worst movie out of the 4 so far, it had no main correlation to the book, crappy freeze frame ending, and shifty side plots. The werewolf? please it looked like an overgrown badger. As for him directing a movie on Harry Potter, I'm thankful he was passed over, otherwise we'd be getting Harry Potter meets Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas... don't get me wrong I loved F and L but it doesn't quite stick with JK Rowling's writing style..

AnnaBlackwell i have to sy that im glad that this guy did not direct movies one and two becuz movie threewas not very true to the book :(

Leaky Cauldron:
cody: Gilliam is a sore loser and a loudmouth. Who cares what he thinks. We've heard all this before.

Angi: Thank goodness WB said no to Gillian, we don't need a Dudley Dursley directing a Harry Potter movie!

lauren: can someone say sour grapes?

He's certainly just jelus, alright.