MTV has now posted online a special feature featuring deleted scenes from the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix DVD, as well as some fantastic behind the scenes footage of the Hall of Prophecy. The clip includes two new interviews with production designer Stuart Craig and OotP director David Yates, and you can see new video of the prophecy globes and more.
Also new are more details about a long hoped for scene, the Pensieve scene focusing on Lily and Snape. David Yates explains why this had to be cut from the movie:
What you won't find in the DVD's deleted scenes, however, is a shot that fans thought would have made the film because it explained Snape's behavior throughout the whole series, a scene referred to as Snape's worst memory, in which he calls a teenage Lily, Harry's mom-to-be, a Mudblood. Some of that was in the film, but it stopped short of showing Lily, who turned out to be the love of Snape's life. "We had a lovely actress play Lily," Yates said. "And we may bring her back. But by introducing Lily and the Lily/Snape plot, that back story, we complicated it too much. We had to cut it."
Finally you can see two deleted scenes, including more with a hilarious Professor Trelawney (Emma Thompson) attempting to eat dinner in the great hall during the introduction of Professor Umbridge, here. Enjoy! The Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix DVD will be released on December 11 here in the US.
First post! Well, i’m certainly not that impressed. All i can say is i certainly hope that WB is planning a “director’s cut” of all 7 films once DH goes to DVD, so we can see alot more of these last 3 films than they put into the finished product. All in the name of making more money because shorter films mean they can run the films more times in the theatre. Totally unnecessary if they’d pay attention to the tremendous box office revenue from the first 5. We’d all go see Potter if they were 4 hours long…
Ha ha, Trelawney certainly managed to make a huge mess of her meal! The feature on the hall of prophecy was very interesting, i was hoping that there would be more on the special effects on the DVD, but i doubt there will be much.
I agree with thee above that really wouldnt complicate things we would know who they are so why not put it in its important for the 7th movie! Gee I wonder what there lame excuse is for not putting in the duel between Sirius and Bellatirx!!! Its not like the movie was tremendously long!
That is such a petty excuse. I don’t see how people who haven’t read the book and then watch the movies say they understand everything. It’s quite mind-boggling.
I hate it when they with hold deleted scenes from us, especially ones we know they film! They did it with the previous two as well! And yet WB just don’t seem to care when we request that they put as much of them on the disc as possible.
The length problem is probably due to the fact that parents keep bringing their annoying little 5 year olds (who are too young to read the book) who get restless and spend most of their time keeping certain people (IE me!!) whilst they swing their legs around!
Its annoying and irresponsible to take kids so young to a 12A film…. I bet theres going to be toddlers who will be made to watch a nude Angelina Jolie flaunt herself in Beowulf, also given a 12A.
Well, I never much cared for the look of Lily in the picture we saw. I think it was just the Moaning Myrtle-type pig tails, not at all how I pictured Lily, though I know it was just one still. My image is much closer to the Lily they used in the first movies. So, I wasn’t too upset about the scene not being included, though I would think it would be necessary in Deathly Hallows during The Prince’s Tale. Maybe we’ll see it then. But I do agree that Yates was far too concerned about “complicating” things. Sounds like code for wanting to keep it as little over two hours as possible, which is my one big complaint about Yates. Order of the Phoenix was great, but it would have been INCREDIBLE with just a few more minutes to flesh things out a bit. But I know it is sort of like Lord of the Rings, which has all kinds of sub-plots and an incredible number of characters, and I can certainly see how the Harry Potter movies are getting very difficult to write and edit now! At least now that we know the ending, more informed decisions can be made as far as what to cut.
I dont understand why they withhold the extended snape memory from the deleted scenes. I do understand cutting it from the movie. At that point it was not understood how important lilly was, and therefor it was a very random thing in such a fast paced movie (compared with a slower pace of reading a book)
"Snape knew more curses when he arrived at school than half the kids in seventh year, and he was part of a gang of Slytherins who nearly all turned out to be Death Eaters."
First post! Well, i’m certainly not that impressed. All i can say is i certainly hope that WB is planning a “director’s cut” of all 7 films once DH goes to DVD, so we can see alot more of these last 3 films than they put into the finished product. All in the name of making more money because shorter films mean they can run the films more times in the theatre. Totally unnecessary if they’d pay attention to the tremendous box office revenue from the first 5. We’d all go see Potter if they were 4 hours long…