Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire is now so close that you can actually hear all kinds of children, slightly creepy adults and various other Harry Potter fans salivating as they anticipate the movie’s release.
But some people aren’t impressed by all this Harry Potter malarkey – Canadian folk group Wyrd Sisters have tried to ban Canadian distribution of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire because a band in the film has almost – kind of – just about copied their name. Possibly.
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, the fourth Harry Potter (stuff) movie,
is already surrounded by such a blizzard of hype that it’s bound to do
well in the box office. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire is already
said to be the scariest, funniest and best Harry Potter film outing so far,
which – let’s face it – wouldn’t really take that much.
But the Harry Potter Juggernaut was almost halted at the weekend
by the Wyrd Sisters, a group of folk singers from Winnipeg who have
been around for 15 years. They apparently took offence at a section of
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire which shows a band called The Weird
Sisters, comprised of two of Radiohead and Jarvis Cocker. Wyrd, Weird –
you can see where the confusion would set in, can’t you?
The Wyrd Sisters seemed to think so, and they attempted to pass a
motion banning the release of the new Harry Potter film in Canada, saying that the use of The
Weird Sisters not only infringed on
their trademarked name, but would also confuse people who
might be expecting the Wyrd Sisters to be related to Harry Potter in some way.
Warner
Brothers argued back – more or less – that nobody in their right minds
could confuse the skinny one and the bald one from Radiohead and Jarvis
Cocker with a bunch of floaty Winnipeg folk singers, and that The Weird Sisters
are only in the film for six seconds anyway, and nobody even references
them at all. The Judge sided with Warner Brothers and dismissed the motion, which means the
film’s Canadian release will go ahead as planned. As if it wasn’t all
just a big publicity stunt in the first place.
The inclusion of
The Weird Sisters in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire follows a
scene in the last Harry Potter film which showed Ian Brown waggling his
finger around in a pub for about two seconds. Personally, we hope the
Britpop/Harry Potter relationship keeps up – we’d love to find out that
Harry’s parents were Louise Wener and the bassist from Terrorvision.
Read more:
Canadian Folkies Can’t Stop ‘Harry Potter,’ Judge Rules – MTV
[story by Stuart Heritage]
Christina says
I’ve just heard the songs Jarvis Cocker did for the film (on the official website) and I’m totally impressed and glad to hear Cocker again. It’s very exciting…and I am so glad the film has not been banned for such stupid reasons. I think The Wyrd Sisters just wanted to make a bigger name for themselves, how sad.
Schmoo says
Someone who remembers Terrorvision? Yay!