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Aug. 5, 2004LOS ANGELES - He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has been named.Ralph Fiennes, who played memorable evil guys in Red Dragon and Schindlers List, has signed on to portray the wicked warlock Voldemort in the next Harry Potter movie, Warner Bros. announced Wednesday.
Voldemort is so bad that the magical characters in author J.K. Rowlings stories do their best not to speak his name aloud.
In the first three installments of the saga, a deadly magic spell meant for a baby Harry Potter backfired and deprived him of a body. So only his spirit wrought havoc in The Sorcerers Stone, The Chamber of Secrets and the recent Prisoner of Azkaban.
But Voldemort finally returns in the flesh in part four: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Filming has been under way on Goblet since June 25, mainly with star Daniel Racliffe as the boy-wizard, and co-stars Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as his pals Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Fiennes has not yet filmed any scenes.
Other additions to the cast include Brendan Gleeson (Troy, The Village and Cold Mountain) as Potters new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, the fearsome Mad-Eye Moody, and Miranda Richardson, (The Crying Game, Sleepy Hollow) as Rita Skeeter, a gossip columnist for a magical newspaper.
The cast also includes Robert Pattinson as Hogwarts student Cedric Diggory, Stanislav Ianevski as Quidditch star Viktor Krum, French actress Clemence Poesy as the heart-fluttering visiting student Fleur Delacour, and Katie Leung as Potters love-interest and Quidditch rival Cho Chang.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, directed by Four Weddings and a Funeral filmmaker Mike Newell, is scheduled for theatrical release in November 2005.
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Vecchio Hickory had this to say about Tron:
... and Katie Leung as Potters love-interest and Quidditch rival Cho Chang...
Bout time they finally bring her in...
