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Chamber of Secrets Overview

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This movie is nearing the end of production.

Rating (USA): Most likely PG because of intense scenes. This rating also signals it is a family movie.

Release Date: 15 November 2002

Running Time: Unknown

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Director: Chris Columbus

Producer: David Heyman/Heyday Films/1492 Pictures (Columbus)

Writers: Steve Kloves (screenplay); J.K. Rowling (source novel)

Production crew list so far.

Visual Effects: Industrial Light & Magic

LOCATIONS

Principal photography began 18 November 2001 in the United Kingdom. Director Columbus said the movie was a 200-day shoot. Soundstage work was done at Leavesden Studios near London, England.

Some filming for Chamber was done in late 2001, including the Forbidden Forest scenes, at Black Park near the Pinewood Studios grounds.
Alnwick Castle returned as a Hogwarts exterior.
King's Cross filming was done in February 2002.
Second unit filming near Glenfinnan, Scotland was done in September 2001 with the Hogwarts Express and child extras as Hogwarts students.
A site near the village of Watford, in southwest Hertfordshire County, was selected for construction of a mockup of The Burrow, the Weasley family home.
Huskeiran Isle, off the Scottish coast, will be used in April 2002, most likely for Azkaban. More locations will be announced later.

CAST

Harry Potter – Daniel Radcliffe
Ron Weasley – Rupert Grint
Hermione Granger – Emma Watson
Gilderoy Lockhart – Kenneth Branagh
Headmaster Albus Dumbledore – Richard Harris
Assistant Headmistress Minerva McGonagall – Dame Maggie Smith
Professor Severus Snape – Alan Rickman
Seamus Finnigan – Devon Murray
Uncle Vernon Dursley – Richard Griffiths
Aunt Petunia Dursley – Fiona Shaw
Dudley Dursley – Harry Melling
Draco Malfoy – Tom Felton
Sir Nicholas “Nearly Headless Nick” de Mimsy-Porpington – John Cleese
Professor Filius Flitwick – Warwick Davis
Rubeus Hagrid – Robbie Coltrane
Argus Filch – David Bradley
Madam Irma Pince – Sally Motremore
Professor Sprout - Miriam Margolyes
Headmaster Armando Dippet – Alfred Burke
Madam Poppy Pomfrey – Gemma Jones
Dobby the House Elf (voice) – Toby Jones
Dean Thomas – Alfie Enoch
Neville Longbottom – Matt Lewis
Oliver Wood – Sean Biggerstaff
Arthur Weasley – Mark Williams
Molly Weasley – Julie Walters
Percy Weasley – Chris Rankin
Fred Weasley – James Phelps
George Weasley – Oliver Phelps
Ginny Weasley – Bonnie Wright
Lucius Malfoy – Jason Isaacs
Lee Jordan – Luke Youngblood
Gregory Goyle – Joshua Herdman
Vincent Crabbe – Jamie Waylett
Terrence Higgs – Will Theakston
Colin Creevey – Hugh Mitchell
Katie Bell – Emily Dale
Adrian Pucey – David Holmes
Marcus Flint – Scott Fearn
Pansy Parkinson – Katharine Nicholson
Lavender Brown – Kathleen Cauley
Moaning Myrtle – Shirley Henderson
Fat Lady – Elizabeth Spriggs
Fat Friar – Simon Fisher-Becker
Grey Lady – Nina Young
Bloody Baron – Terence Bayler
Sorting Hat (voice) – Leslie Phillips
Alicia Spinnet – Leila Sutherland
Angelina Johnson – Danielle Tabor
Penelope Clearwater – Gemma Padley
Mr. Borgin – Ed Tudorpole
Cornelius Fudge – Robert Hardy
Aragog (voice) – Julian Glover
Tom Riddle – Christian Coulson

UNCAST OR RUMORED ROLES
Young Rubeus Hagrid – Unknown
Cornelius Fudge – Malcolm McDowell
Justin Finch-Fletchley – Edward Randell
Ernie McMillan – Unknown
Mr. Borgin – Unknown
Mr. Mason – Unknown
Mrs. Mason – Unknown
Professor Sinistra – Unknown

ONCE RUMORED ACTORS
Offered just for trivia's sake.
Gilderoy Lockhart - Hugh Grant; Alan Cumming
Moaning Myrtle – Alyssia Rosiak
Arthur Weasley – Robert Carlyle
Lucius Malfoy – Richard E. Grant, Bill Nighy, Ralph Fiennes
Dobby – Kevin E. O'Connor

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