We look forward to seeing his take on all five (5!) Fantastic Beasts movies. Whether it was through a lack of promotion or just dumb luck, Chamber of Secrets is surprisingly the second-lowest earning Harry Potter movie. Rowling’s saga in less than 7 percent of that time - shorter than the length of any individual Harry Potter movie - which leaves you a convenient window to triple check your application to Hogwarts. That’s a movie marathon that only sounds reasonable to a person preparing to board an ultra-long-haul flight without access to booze or medication.īut thanks to Stiefler’s public service, you can now experience J.K. Efficient!įor reference, the combined run time of all eight Harry Potter releases from The Sorcerer’s Stone through Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is 1,178 minutes, more than 19.5 hours. Within 10, he’s astride a broom for the first time, and within 40, he’s mourning Dumbledore. Within five minutes, the Sorting Hat has placed Harry in Gryffindor (no talk of Slytherin this time). The slimmed-down version begins with Harry and friends arriving at Hogsmeade Station via the Hogwarts Express. Draco Malfoy offered Harry Potter friendship when they first met in Sorcerers Stone, but it wasnt out of the goodness of his Slytherin heart. Wizardhood is a little like watching the main cast, who aged about a decade throughout production, go through time-lapse puberty. The editor stitched together only the most crucial moments in young Harry’s life into one cohesive feature, Wizardhood (get it? because Boyhood), that comes in at a nimble 80 minutes (actually, 78 minutes and 28 seconds). Remind us: What’s the spell that condenses a very long movie franchise into one highly watchable film again? Well, real-life wizard Tim Stiefler apparently remembers, and has applied his ample talents to the Harry Potter series.

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