Why did they use Sara Paxton?
What happened to the first girl?
"Sticks and stones may brake your bones but a 50ft fall will kill ya" FP
Maybe her, like me, lost interest in the series??
I don't know
MovieChat Forums > Return to Halloweentown (2006) Discussion > Why did they use Sara Paxton?
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She actually was available to do the film but Disney decided not to use her in the film. Recent interview with Kim
Adam: So, we have to talk about the fourth Halloweentown movie. Most people don’t seem to know the truth about you and “Return to Halloweentown.” I remember asking you not too long ago about why you were not in the fourth movie. Do you want to set the record straight about that?
Kim: Well, Let me just say that I wanted to do the fourth one and was fully available for the shoot-Nothing makes me happier than playing “Marnie.” Disney decided not to use me for the fourth one, I’m don’t know why. I was definitely disappointed not to do it.
Link of 2010 interview
http://oct31st.org/wp/?p=273#more-273
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And KJB is still totally up for doing another one.
http://twitter.com/#!/OfficialKJB/status/26513799408
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Kimberly J. Brown was too fat.
sharePaxton, who replaced her in the role, was clueless why Brown was not cast. She said, “(Disney) asked me if I was interested in playing Marnie and I said I was. It sounded like a lot of fun. I don’t know [what happened to Kimberly J. Brown]! I just know they called me and said, ‘Do you want to play Marnie?’ and I said, ‘Yeah!’”share
Paxton had just finished filming Aquamarine (2006) for 20th Century Fox. She sang in the film and had signed a record deal with Epic Records. It had been rumored that Return to Halloweentown might be done as a musical like High School Musical that was released that same year, which may be one of the reasons the actress was cast.
Executive producer Sheri Singer stated about the re-casting: “That was not something we wanted to do. We could not come to terms that we felt were fair. We just weren’t able to. We couldn’t make the deal work.”
Return to Halloweentown director David Jackson said, “The character she played was younger than the actress actually was by enough years that we felt like as a collective group that it was better to recast someone who was younger. It kind of came down to that.”
He added that it was also felt that the original audience who knew Brown in the role had grown up and was no longer the demographic for the series and that the story was not reliant on the first three installments. However, Joey Zimmerman, Judith Hoag and Debbie Reynolds were retained from the first three films.