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HP4 Trivia
- Alfonso Cuarón was offered the chance to direct this installment in the series, but
declined as he would still be working on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).
- Over 3,000 girls t urned up at the auditions for the role of Cho Chang,
in London on 7 February 2004.
- The Dursleys were cut from the film due to time constraints.
- Mike Newell is the first British director the film series has had.
- According to rumors that circulated the Internet, both Rowan Atkinson and John Malkovich were considered for the role of Lord Voldemort. Both were proven to be
untrue; Malkovich is, of course, an American, and doesn't meet the "all-British-cast" requirement.
- Rumors on the Internet of a Scottish actor being cast as Viktor Krum
were halted when it was announced that, as originally planned by the producers, a Bulgarian would in fact play the part. Perhaps
these rumors arose because the Bulgarian was discovered in England and not in Sofia, where there was a casting call for the
part of the International Quidditch Champion. 'Stanislav Yanevski' , a Bulgarian student living in London, has been cast in
the role.
- Mike Newell decided against the studio's original idea of adapting the 734 page book
into two separate films to be released several months apart, figuring that he could cut enough of the book's bulky subplots
to make a workable film.
- Mike Newell only received $1 million to direct (whereas Chris Columbus received $10 million plus a percentage of the gross to direct _Harry
Potter and the Sorceror's Stone (2001)_ ) .
- According to Mike Newell, the movie is set to become the most expensive
movie ever, with a budget of $308 million. It is around $10 million more than the budget of the entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy,
which was nearly $300 million. Currently, the two movies with the largest budgets are Titanic (1997) and _Spider Man 2 (2004)_ , both having a budget of $200 million
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