VANITY FAIR director courted for HARRY POTTER 5

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Monday, August 30, 2004
Source: Coming Soon, The Times of India

As first reported by The Times of India (and then by Coming Soon), MONSOON WEDDING director Mira Nair has been asked to direct the fifth HARRY POTTER film, HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX. "I'm getting offers to direct HARRY POTTER: THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX," Mira told the Times. "I read it over the weekend. I'm still deciding... I'm not letting all this go to my head. I'm grounded."

Nair, whose son is a fan of the movies and has watched all three with him, is deciding whether she'll accept the job or not. Her latest film is VANITY FAIR, based on William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name, is scheduled to open in theaters this week.

If indeed Nair has read the script for ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, this is the first that anyone has heard of screenwriter Steve Kloves having finished the script. Director Mike Newell is knee-deep filming the fourth picture, HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE for a November 2005 release. If Warner Bros., the studio behind the HARRY POTTER movie franchise, clicks with a director soon the fifth movie could possibly be out in theaters before the end of 2006.


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