Hagrid gave Ron his missing rat Scabbers, and then the three surreptitiously watched as Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge, Dumbledore, and an executioner arrived at Hagrid""s for condemned Buckbeak""s killing at sundown, ordered by the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures." He was late to the empty offices of theDaily Planet, where he learned in a conference room that sleazy tabloid tycoon David Warfield (Sam Wanamaker) had purchased the newspaper and taken over operations, vowing to make it profitable and exploitative.He told her: "I want you to remember me.Not the ghost of Christmas me." She assured him: "We can fight his." Later, in Weasel""s bar, Wade was approached by a Recruiter/Jared Smith (Jed Rees), nicknamed "Agent Smith" (fromThe Matrixfilms) who offered Wade a chance to cure his terminal cancer (with an experimental and secret program in his organization) and give him incredible abilities and powers ("We won""t just make you better.The major portion of the action of the film is theatrically-based and contained almost entirely on two small interior sets (a first for Griffith who had previously used exterior sets and location shooting almost exclusively) to emphasize the limits of space and time.