Daily Dialogue — February 28, 2015

“Make a wish, Harry.”

— Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (20010), screenplay by Steve Kloves, novel by J.K. Rowling

The Daily Dialogue theme for next week: Birthday.

Trivia: Warner Bros. originally considered making the entire “Harry Potter” series as a set of CGI animated films, or attempting to combine several of the novels into a single movie. The studio’s reasoning mainly had to do with concern over the rapid aging of child actors-if production ran too long on any of the films, or if production was delayed between sequels, the leading actors might have to be recast. Author J.K. Rowling vetoed both the ideas of combining books and an animated film, so the studio decided instead to produce all seven (later eight) films back to back so the same child actors could play their roles in every film.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Pretty much where it all started: A birthday wish.

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