# Prince of Azkaban **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 23, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-of-azkaban/183701 "2003-06-23T04:52:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stccrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Stccrd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stccrd)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-of-azkaban/183701/1 "2003-06-23T04:52:20Z")
So they’ve got a more detailed [cast list](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0304141) …and since the original Albus Dumbledore bit the dust, we’ve got a [replacement.](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Gambon,%20Michael) Michael Gambon, anyone ever heard of this guy? ---
**Author:** ![stringy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@stringy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stringy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-of-azkaban/183701/2 "2003-06-23T05:13:41Z")
Micheal Gambon was the guy who got bumped off in _Gosford Park_. I’ve also seen him in a rather good version of Samuel Beckett’s _Endgame_, it was part of a series of Beckett’s plays done by the BBC (I think). I liked Richard Harris in the role of Dumbledore, but I don’t think Gambon will disappoint. I’m quite looking forward to seeing how he plays it, Harris did look very frail and I think Gambon will seem a bit more in control and hopefully slightly deranged (or am I the only one who thinks Dumbledore is brilliant but off-the-wall). ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-of-azkaban/183701/3 "2003-06-23T05:48:52Z")
I thought that was “Prisoner.” Anyway, most of this is the same cast… Gary Oldman as Sirius? Obvious, I guess, but hey, he and Rickman can have an “I am the most apparently-evil red herring” contest. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Short\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Short\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-of-azkaban/183701/4 "2003-06-23T13:38:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Michael Gambon, anyone ever heard of this guy? I have. He was the lead in one of the best drama television series ever, the unsurpassed _the Singing Detective_. He was also in _Sleepy Hollow_, as the guy who gets his head cut off… I mean, Christina Ricci’s father. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-of-azkaban/183701/5 "2003-06-23T14:02:43Z")
Michael Gambon was also in the the great Masterpiece Theatre miniseries, _Wives and Daughters_. He should make a great Dumbledore. ---
**Author:** ![Stccrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Stccrd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stccrd)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-of-azkaban/183701/6 "2003-06-23T14:25:47Z")
So it is “Prisoner of Azkaban”. Guess I am entitled to a mistake or two… ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-of-azkaban/183701/7 "2003-06-23T14:49:07Z")
Oooh, can’t wait. Hopefully we’ll get something decent now that they’ve cleared Chris Columbus out. I see that Daniel Radcliffe is still Harry, though. I kept wondering how Radcliffe could possibly portray an Order of the Phoenix Harry; the new sulky Harry is a far cry from Radcliffe’s earnest geek who’s impressed by anything magical that comes his way - even after two years at Hogwarts. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-of-azkaban/183701/8 "2003-06-23T15:38:45Z")
My wife is gonna be royally pissed off that there’s no Oliver Wood in this one…she thinks he’s a hunk.