In a new interview recorded around the time of the release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Voices from Krypton has a new audio interview with director David Yates who talks details and more about the upcoming sixth Harry Potter film. Noting that screenwriter Steven Kloves has turned in a “terrific and fun” draft that will lend to a very “character-driven” film, David Yates discusses things like character relationships as well as the final “wonderful” sequence at the end of the film. In particular, Mr. Yates specifically mentions the “epic” cave scene and the army of the dead sequence that will take place in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, as well as the relationship between mentor Albus Dumbledore and student Harry Potter.
In this riveting interview (runs approx 6:48) HBP director David Yates says the film will swing between drama and moments of horror to those of delicate character relationship moments. He also mentions the humor in the film, and the “unrequited feelings” between Harry and Ginny that will be incorporated, as well as the deeping and developing relationship between Ron and Hermione which he describes as “delightful and funny and tender and true.” To listen to this audio interview, click here.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is currently in production and will be released in theaters November 21, 2008.
Sounds good, but I hope they don’t focus too much on funny parts of the film. They’d better make it really scary too (I would have no objection to a 15 rated film…. lol)
You will be disappointed? Awww, that’s a shame. You do not have my pity, already hating a movie before it comes out.
First of all, the Snape storyline in HBP was utterly minute: That added to the shock of the fact that it was him. Until Harry is chasing him down like a dog on the grounds of Hogwarts, you do not know that he is in fact the Prince.
Yates will do exactly what JK did and develop the Prince as possibly one of the marauders, only to make it known that it’s Snape.
Also do not judge this movie from OOTP entirely, as the script is from Kloves and Yates has changed gears entirely on the focus. He isn’t Columbus you know, who kept the exact same vision going into COS.
In case no one has answere your question:
Go to the first part of the interview, scroll down to where it says “continue”
That will take you to the “long version”
Scroll down THERE, until you get to the
“Click Here” (in red) That will take you to it. Click on and listen..well worth it.
cheers!
Gail
Posted by Gail Callicott on September 24, 2007, 05:15 PM
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Agreed Doobah.
Unfortunately, some people have a tendency to judge too quickly and they end up ruining the movie for themselves b/c they expect a crappy one. Eh, but what can you do?
I’m very excited for this movie. I thoroughly enjoyed OOTP.
SQUEE! the only thing i don’t understand is why he’d call harry and ginny’s love unrequited… uh, i think that’s hardly appropriate in this case? xD anyway, off to listen, perhaps it will make more sense in context.
SQUEEEEE! only thing i don’t understand is why he’d say harry and ginny’s relationship is “unrequited”... they better not be cutting all the h/g action or they’ll have some crazy ass shippers running after them with pitchforks… including me, teehee xD anyway off to listen!
I figure they’ll stretch the inferi scene a bit. It’s the only real action in the whole movie and the creepiest part. They shouldn’t overly stretch it though.
I love going into films with low expectations. That way, if the movie bombs, I was mentally prepared and if it doesn’t I come out surprised. Not so when you have high expectations. If the movie doesn’t deliver you end up hating it.
Anita, I agree with you. I enjoyed OOTP and am looking forward to this movie. My first HP movie I saw was GOF and I went because I had to take my niece to get her out of her mother’s hair. I did not want to go at all but I fell in love that day and have been reading the books and watching the movies over and over since.
OOTP was my first experience with all this fandom and I was excited for it because everyone was going on about how great a new writer was going to be and everyone was happy about Yates. Then when the movie came out so many people seemed to just bash the movie, Yates, and the writer. I was a bit shocked at the turn from the fans. Id this the way it is with every release?
I saw OOTP on the midnight release and I also saw the things that were cut out and was a bit sad at some of them but I understood that WB gave them a time limit and in any job we have to follow the boss’s rules even if we don’t like it. In the end WB is the boss and Yates has to comply with there wishes. When I saw the movie again I really saw it for the movie and not the book.
SS and COS were very much like the book yet fans complain about that too. I think we as fans have put the movie makers between a rock and a hard place. We seem to complain when it follows the book and we complain when it strays from the book. We need to accept the movies for an adaptation of the books they are not the books. Yates seems to really love making these movies and I think he showed it in OOTP and will bring the story forward in HBP. I am looking forward to seeing his adaptation of this book and will judge it as just that.
El caz- I’m with you there. I always try to go into movies made from novels (or whatever) with very low expectations. This one, I hope, will not bomb. But… we’ll see.
I don hope he keeps a little Remus/Tonks stuff though…
Posted by Corellianjedi2 on September 24, 2007, 05:56 PM
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Wrong Anita! I expected to LOVE OOTP. There were parts of it that I did love. But I was ultimately disappointed because the brains behind the film (and I have to assume that is the director) chose to leave a crucial plot point on the cutting room floor. I really hope that doesn’t happen in HBP or (Heavens forfend!) DH, There is no assurance that it won’t however, especially if some of the same hands are involved in the editing decisions.
If Snape’s story line is diminished in the next two films it will totally ruin the film for me. How do you translate onto film that Harry is thinking the HBP might be his father, or that the HBP is like a friend or a mentor? Snape is all of those thing to Harry, although Harry doesn’t know it. Snape saves Harry, or attempts to save Harry again and again and again.
Snape is the hero of the entire series in my reading. I’ve seen clues that the people running the film franchise do not agree. So I’m eagerly looking forward to the next two films, while hoping against hope that the producers, editors, directors and script writers don’t bollocks it up.
How about going in with NO expectations rather than negative ones, if you cannot be positve? We’re a spoiled bunch as it is when it comes to adaption of movies (and before anyone throws LOTR at me, those books had been completed 50 years before and people had time to know what had to be cut and what couldnt be.
People are still whining about SWM being cut? Some of you REALLY need to educate yourselves on film making, because once you do you will see just how obnoxious and bratty it sounds. The fact of the matter is, movies cannot show something in one movie that only pays off in another movie. That is something books and books alone have the capacity to do. Movies operate on Chekhov’s Rule, which I will not bother typing out. If you are open minded enough to see my point, then you can look it up here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov’s_Gun. SWM will be reintroduced IN FULL when they film DH, and only then. Why? Because it is only in THAT BOOK where the memory is at all important.
People, HBP and OOTP are incomparable. OOTP had a different scriptwriter, a different focus, and not much to work with compared tohow HBP will be. If Yates had said it would focus on rebellion and politics like in OOTP, then I would be worried, but he steers far away from that. Don’t bother with expectations. Negative expectations are just as bad as overhype. Either expect the unexpected or have no expectations.
Sounds good, but I hope they don’t focus too much on funny parts of the film. They’d better make it really scary too (I would have no objection to a 15 rated film…. lol)