Yates hasn’t agreed to do DH but I think he has the stamina and will to go for the final one, for several reasons:

1- It’s the last one. It’s as big and important as the first one. 2- He was a TV director who’s doing major films now. What other project could possibly top this? 3- Columbus was criticized for his vision and he probably didn’t feel all that comfortable working in a third movie. Not so with Yates, who probably still has some stamina left. 4- Yates is british, so his whole family lives there.

If HBP is succesful, I see no reason to change him unless he wants out.

@JOHN: I’m too tired to write everything I want to say, but are you serious? You didn’t like the lines taken from the books? That’s one thing I LOVE about the movies: they are loyal to Jo’s written word!!!!!

I loved OotP because of David Yates’ direction and vision. Sure, things were cut – but did we really need ALL 20 or so pages of Hagrid talking about his time with the giants, etc? I liked how he was able to really darken the tone to match the novel AND cast some extraordinary actors for the new parts (like Imelda Staunton as Umbridge – impeccable!) I think it should be David Yates or Mike Newell (with Cuaron a close third) as director of DH…

You know what? I loved them all! I loved each one a little more than its predecessor. I love Cuaron, Newell, and Yates. Columbus was pedestrian but I still like the movies because of the story being brought to life. Therefore, you can’t go wrong with anyone. Del Toro would be great too.

In ootp, there was a scene where harry had to tell that facing this in real life…when you’re seconds away from murder…If you have played the video game, you’ll see that Harry there, shows a lot of emotion, convinging that this is very painful to him. But in the film, when harry said that, it was like- He just stood up and said it like he learnt it in one minute! Then there was the Sirius scene, where the veil was just like an invisible barrier. I’m not saying that’s wrong or something, but just that, there was an emotional flaw and abt GoF, that particular sound of Dark Mark, sent a lot of chills to people who watched this inside a dark hall, ie, a movie theatre with surround sounds. Newell, whereas, was able to put emotion where it was needed,from Ron’s jealousy, to the many comical dialogs, to the seriousness and danger of each tasks as they approached it. I say, if you compare GoF, with ootp, I dont think the latter was that realistic, then again, there was grawp, etc., which showed that it was a work of animation, but you cant say that with the dragons, can you?

That’s convincing, sorry, i messed the word back there!

I just worry that he doesn’t seem particularly passionate about the material.

Would you rather a corporation direct or the direct’s vision? Any direct worth his salt would make a similar statement.

Del Toro is absolutely not the man to direct DH: “If they come back to me, I’ll think about it”—doesn’t exactly sound keen, but this film requires someone who is willing to do their best at a hugely difficult task. He’s a talented director, but his work isn’t anywhere near as special as Cuaron’s.

I suppose what this means that they haven’t actually settled on a director yet. Regardless of how well Yates does with HBP - I’m expecting only above-average like OOtP - he is obviously not right for DH, which is a huge, profound, rolling adventure. Yates has a lot of strengths but he can’t direct action and he has no visual flair, and unfortunately the post people advising him for OOtP didn’t either—absolutely awful scenes with Grawp and a battle scene that should have been so much better. In DH we are going to have HUNDREDS of these scenes!

Cuarón is definitely right for DH, and obviously he is not going to be able to deviate from the basic story too much, like anyone who works on these films. I’m sure Newell too would do a really excellent job, and I hope that he gets serious consideration. I just hope Dave Heyman doesn’t stick with Yates because he’s too bored with Potter to look for anyone else.

Quibbler (& others who hold this awful misconception):

Please stop with the shrunken heads thing! J.K. Rowling personally admitted that she loved them and wished she had written them herself. And lastly, she said they were STEVE KLOVES’ (who apparently is staying on for the 7th) idea. People, do your research!

In the books written by JKR, Shrunken heads are only connected with the dark arts not good wizards. Kindly read the novels.

But it turned out that Stan Shunpike was a death eater. So he might have put shrunken heads in the bus. But back to the main topic. I really think this is too much nitpicking. Every director who has helmed the series has lent their unique vision and has not destroyed the series, even Mike Newell who I liked the least did some good things. It really comes down to the script and the brilliant actors.

Kindly read this quote:

Jo Rowling: I thought the shrunken head was very funny, I really liked that. It was all done really well, and it was a really funny idea. I mean, I’ve said to Steve Kloves many times “Dammit, I wish I could’ve written them up.” You know? But obviously that’s what you want. You want to be working with people who come up with great stuff, it’s great you know, when I’m looking around for all these little bits that are completely consistent with the world. But I, you know, there you go.

Thank you Accio Quote; what a resource!

P.S.-I like the idea of Del Toro. Him, or even Alfonso (I loved “Children of Men”), would do just fine.