[kupoartist]

Originally Posted by trunks69420

but yeah.. so that should be some indicator that the fourth installment will be a tad longer

But remember that these are primarily Family movies aimed to appease the kids. A 3 hour long Harry Potter seems very unlikely to me, simply because parents would be sceptical about taking their child to see it... Expect lots of cutting from the source material... I can see a sizeable part of the quidditch cup disappearing, and a reduction in action between each of the stages of the Wizards Challenge (or whatever it was)

Quite frankly though, if you don't expect to see things cut from a 700 page book to even a 3 hour film, you're just silly. Shakespeare's Hamlet is about 130 pages of dialogue of Harry Potter sized text, and Kenneth Branagh's unedited version runs for Four Hours. Even taking into account that HP isn't all dialogue, a truely faithful version would probably still be in excess of 6 to 8 hours.

Besides, beyond book 3, Rowling just got unneccessarily waffley. Some like the forth and fifth books simply because they're bigger. I like them less for that reason.