I just revised the treatment to 12 pages, and there's a sweet role for a jet ski rider who saves the protagonist at the beginning and then gets eaten himself, but you'll have to talk to the man who just optioned it for 600 bucks.

I enjoyed this commentary, but I'm surprised you guys didn't talk more about the score.  My sister is a huge fan of the books, but really looked down on the movies, save for the music. If it wasn't for the music my sister and all her Potter fan friends would detest the movies.  Do you hold the score for this movie very highly?

My copy of the movie has the Rifftrax merged with it, and while re-listening to the podcast with it just now I got to the point where the giant is explaining to Harry what a Muggle is. The riff changes his dialog to "You see, Harry, when a group of people is different it helps to come up with a funny sounding word, or 'slur', to describe them." By any chance do the books deal with that aspect of it?

Oh shutup mudblood.

When ever I watch "time bandits", "baron m" , "12 monkeys" and especially "Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" i think of what a Terry Gilliam HP would have been like..story wise not that different but its feel would have been closer to the later movies and been a bit more over the top up front. He would have been great for the set up movie.

I remember seeing 'The Brothers Grimm', and my only thought was, 'why did I just watch a silly movie shot entirely on sound-stages?'. To be honest, the only Gilliam movie that's ever impressed me is the bits of 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' that made it into the documentary.