Where to watch Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

Trivia & production notes

• Chris Columbus passed on directing Goblet of Fire because his family wanted to return to America after spending years in England filming the first two Potter movies.
• J.K. Rowling shared an unpublished manuscript detailing her plans for the series with Columbus, Heyman, and Kloves so they could prepare for adapting future books.
• M. Night Shyamalan was approached to direct but chose to work on Life of Pi instead.
• Mike Newell prepared to direct by studying paranoid thrillers including North by Northwest, The Parallax View, and Three Days of the Condor.
• Henry Cavill auditioned for Cedric Diggory before Robert Pattinson was cast in the role.
• Rosamund Pike turned down the role of Rita Skeeter because she considered it too minor, a decision she later regretted.
• The filmmakers initially attempted to film the underwater second task using a technique called dry for wet, but found it didn't create a convincing effect, so they switched to filming in an underwater tank instead.
• Daniel Radcliffe trained for six months and spent more than 40 hours underwater across three weeks of shooting the underwater sequence.
• Oxford University's New College and Divinity School doubled as Hogwarts locations, including the courtyard where Harry confronts Malfoy and the ballroom for Yule Ball dancing lessons.
• The Yule Ball scene was filmed in December 2004, months after principal photography began in May 2004.

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