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Half-Blood Prince: Cape Wrath casts its spell on Harry Potter film-makers
MURDO MACLEOD of The Scotsman
ONE has the 900ft cliffs usually only frequented by gannets and gulls, the other has 365 stone steps meticulously carved out of the headland by herring fishermen in the 18th century.
But the spectacular rocks and caves of the far north of Scotland are in the running to become locations for the next Harry Potter blockbuster film.
Warner Bros, which is preparing to shoot Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, has sent an executive to the cliffs and caves around Cape Wrath, and also to a sea cave close to the Whaligoe Steps near Wick, and has been in talks over filming in the north.
Businesses in Caithness and Sutherland believe the shooting of the multi-million-pound movie will bring a major boost for tourism in the area. It is due to be screened in November 2008, with filming expected to start later this year. The last Potter blockbuster, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, cost £75m to make.
The producers are interested in using the caves and cliffs as part of the dramatic climax of the new film - the sixth in the series - in which the heroes wind their way along a sea-lashed coastline in search of the soul of the evil Lord Voldemort.
Sue Quinn, a London-based locations manager with Warner Bros, travelled to Scotland last month, taking a boat trip from Lochinver around Cape Wrath towards Durness, and then heading to Wick to check out the shore and caves at Whaligoe, near Lybster.
The main locations she checked out were:
• Smoo Cave, near Durness, which is 200ft long, 130ft wide, and 50ft tall at its entrance;
• Clo Mor, near Cape Wrath, which at 921ft, are the highest cliffs on the UK mainland;
• The arches under Cape Wrath, which contain a string of long caves;
• Stac Clo Kearvaig, a tower of rock that rises 130ft above the waves near Cape Wrath;
• The cave at the Whaligoe Steps, which lies in a bay enclosed by two large sea cliffs.
The locations are thought to be in competition with similar settings in the Leinster and Munster provinces of Ireland, and with New Zealand, where Lord Of The Rings was filmed.
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Half-Blood Prince: Bill Nighy looking for part in Harry Potter
Rumours are starting to whir around that Bill Nighy, who plays Davy Jones in the last two f the Pirates of the Carribean movies, is looking for a part in Harry Potter.
One of the only British Actors to not be in the Harry potter films, Nighy, suggested in an interview that seeing as he is a friend of the Order of the Phoenix and Half Blood Prince Director David Yates, that he may now have a chance to play the part "I joked with him that maybe now I wouldn't be the only actor in England who hadn't been in 'Harry Potter'".
Nighy not only has been Davy Jones in Dead Mans Chest and At Worlds End, but also has also had roles in:
- both the Underworld Movies as Viktor, leader of a Vampire Coven
- Shaun of the Dead, as Phillip the step father and then zombie
(both the Movie above and below, alongside Rafe Spall, Son of Timothy Spall (Wormtail, Petter Pettigrew))
- Hot Fuzz, Metropolitan Chief Inspector Kenneth
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- The Constant Gardener (alongside Ralph Fiennes (yes Lord Voldemort)) as Sir Bernard Pellegrin
Information and quote from Underneath it all, he's still Bill Nighy
Movie information from IMDB Bill Nighy
Photos below courtesy of IMDB
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Deathly Hallows: Diary Update
JKR has updated her Diary on her website to read:
May 14th
A couple of weeks ago (April 28th, if you want to go and search the archive) the Potter website The Leaky Cauldron posted an editorial on potential spoilers for "Deathly Hallows". It made me laugh, but I was also incredibly moved and grateful.
We're a little under three months away, now, and the first distant rumblings of the weirdness that usually preceeds a Harry Potter publication can be heard on the horizon. The Leaky Cauldron's early mission statement on spoilers (ie, dont, and we're not putting them up if you do) is deeply appreciated by yours truly.
I add my own plea to Melissa's for one reason, and one only: I want the readers who have in many instances, grown up with Harry, to embark on the last adventure they will share with him without knowing where they are going.
Some, perhaps, will read this and take the view that all publicity is good publicity, that spoilers are part of hype, and that I am trying to protect sales rather than my readership. However, spoilers wont stop people buying the book, they never have - all it will do is diminish their pleasure in the book.
there will always be sad individuals who get their kicks from ruining other peoples fun, but while sites like Leaky take such an active stance against them, we may yet win. Even if the biggest secret gets out - even if somebody discovers the Giant Squid is actually the worlds largest Animagus, which rises from the lake at the eleventh hour, transforms into godric Gryffindor and... well I wouldnt want to spoil it.
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