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Great Hall 'transformed into a shimmering silver wonderland'
It's Weird by name and weird by nature as Jarvis Cocker branches out into a new career.
Enigmatic Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker and two members of Radiohead will be seen in the next Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, now being filmed in England.
Cocker and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and drummer Phil Selway will be seen as part of a wizard rock band called The Weird Sisters, which plays at a Yule Ball held in the Hogwarts Great Hall, transformed into a shimmering silver wonderland and with a stage made of ice.
The trio got the gig after Scottish band Franz Ferdinand, which picked up two top awards (Best Group and Best Rock Act) at this week's Brit awards, pulled out last year, citing scheduling conflicts.
"The band looked really cool and it was great that they got real rock'n'roll people," Rupert Grint, who plays Harry's friend Ron Weasley, said on the set at Leavesden Studios in Hertfordshire this week.
Describing the music as "rock'n'roll with an '80s feel and a little bit of oddness," the producer of the Harry Potter movie franchise, David Heyman, said he had first approached Cocker, who had written four songs for the film.
"Jarvis is a great lyricist who imbuded the songs with wit and completely got the tone we were after," he said.
"In the film you'll see The Weird Sisters play regular instruments that are a little bit strange, like bagpipes with really long pipes and guitars with three necks.
"And because there's no electricity at Hogwarts, the sound system has to be powered by steam, so you see these bursts of steam coming out of the speakers."
The fourth Harry Potter movie, directed by Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral), is about 75 percent complete.
Ralph Fiennes, who will play the evil Voldemort, is due on set soon to start filming his scenes.
Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry, embarked on six months of scuba diving training before the film to prepare him for lenghty underwater sequences.
"My Christmas present from the stunt team was a log book of all the dives I'd done - 41 hours," he said between filming other scenes this week.
The Goblet of Fire will not be released until November, by which time the fifth movie in the series based on J.K. Rowling's novels, The Order of the Phoenix, will be in production. The sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, will be out on July 16.
Heyman said he was "quietly confident" his three rapidly maturing pivotal stars - Radcliffe, 15, Emma Watson, 14 (who plays Hermione), and Rupert Grint, 16, who now has left school for real life - would be back again "and maybe beyond."
Grint agreed. "There's no reason, really, why we wouldn't go on," he said. "I don't know about the others, but I want to go on."
The fifth movie will be directed by David Yates, the man behind the brilliant television political thriller State of Play.
News: In an interview with the Melbourne Herald Sun, HP producer David Heyman said that the Great Hall has been "transformed into a shimmering silver wonderland, with a stage made of ice" for the Yule Ball scene. Also, about the Weird Sisters band: "In the film you'll see the Weird Sisters play regular instruments that are a little bit strange, like bagpipes with really long pipes and guitars with three necks. And because there's no electricity at Hogwarts, the sound system has to be powered by steam, so you see these bursts of steam coming out of the speakers."
Later on in the interview, Heyman noted that he was "quietly confident" that the trio would return for the fifth movie and "maybe beyond." Also, Rupert is quoted: "There's no reason, really, why we couldn't go on. I don't know about the others, but I want to go on."
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Source: The Leaky Cauldron
-02/12/05
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