Fiennes Is You-Know-Who!

At long last, Lord Voldemort has a face and that face belongs to Ralph Fiennes. Warner Bros. announced today that the British actor - whose most memorable screen role was as the insidious Amon Goeth in Schindler's List - has been cast as the evil nemesis of boy wizard, Harry Potter, in the fourth flick in the franchise, Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. Fiennes' casting - which is perfect, by the way, and rather nicely puts those horrendous Rowan Atkinson rumours to the sword - is the last major piece of the jigsaw for the Mike Newell-directed Goblet Of Fire, which has been filming for a short while, with a summer 2005 release date in mind. Although Voldemort has been glimpsed in the previous Potter pics - as a CG creation in ...The Philosopher's Stone and in the guise of the youthful Tom Riddle in ...Chamber Of Secrets, ...Goblet Of Fire will mark the first time we see the Dark Lord (no, not the one with the black armour and the bronchitis) at full strength, and in human form. Fans will already be looking towards the climactic battle between Daniel Radcliffe's Harry and Fienne's Voldemort, which has fatal consequences for one Potter character. In other Potter casting news, the ever-dependable Miranda Richardson has also been cast as rapacious tabloid journalist, Rita Skeeter - one of the few characters in J.K. Rowling's book that Empire would have guessed could have been cut out of the film adaptation without losing much sleep. Still, it'll be interesting to see what Newell has up his sleeve - he's already talked about making the gargantuan novel into just one sub-three hour movie, tonally inspired by Three Days Of The Condor. Could be interesting. One thing's for sure, though - with Fiennes and Alan Rickman (as Snape) on villain duties, Harry's going to have his work cut out.