IGN Filmforce reports that in a recent press talk, Director Mike Newell briefly spoke about his involvement in helming "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" in London and how his take on the famous franchise will be different to the likes of Alfonso Cuaron. "There's a very strong literature in Great Britain of school stories, a really enormous number of them...I found myself remembering those stories and how they worked. In terms of tone, [I found] a way of making the material personal. It wasn't popular to do this great overall sweep: That had been done before me. But it was possible on some level to make it about my school and my schooldays." Newell originally hoped to bring a darker tone to the franchise, but saw that had already been done with Cuaron's work on the third film, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban".
Of his approach, he says - "you pack it with references and suggestions and so forth which, of course, you have taken from the book. So that a reader coming to the film goes, 'Oh, I see. I get it. They did it that way.' You're the guardian of the book, and at the same time, you have absolutely to be able to step off the books and say, 'We had better distill this.' Distillation is a very good word for it."
Thanks to 'The Last Decepticon'.
