A Heroic ‘Harry Potter’ Fan Has Edited All Eight Movies Into A Single 90-Minute Film
In case you don't have time for a marathon.
With Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them currently in theatres, many Harry Potter fans may feel the urge to go back and watch the original films. Thing is, that takes time. In fact, if you were to sit down and watch all eight movies back to back, it would mean spending over 19 and a half hours in front of the TV. Now don’t get us wrong: there are definitely worse ways to spend a weekend. But if you’re looking for a more time-efficient way the revisit to wizarding world, Tim Stiefler has just the ticket.
Earlier this week, the New York-based filmmaker posted a fan-edit online which crams every single Potter movie into a mostly comprehensible 90-minute film. Titled Wizardhood, it’s safe to say that Stiefler’s version makes some fairly dramatic cuts, blasting through parts two to five in a quarter of an hour, and removing characters like the Dursleys and Sirius Black altogether. He did however choose to retain that weird topless makeout scene from Deathly Hallows Part One, so that’s good.
Overall, while this probably won’t make much sense to people unfamiliar with the series, it’s definitely a cool experience for fans, who get to watch the special effects get better, the actors get older (or in Neville’s case, dreamier) and see Emma Watson act rings around her young costars from the age of 10.