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.
Um, guys, they aren’t gonna change the name of the movie. They will still have to have the HBP, and all that Snape business. But that doesn’t really attract the people who haven’t read the books. Romance and action do. lol Sadly. And PLUS, it is kind of supposed to be a surprise that Snape is the HBP soo…
And he’s talked about the “unrequited” thing before. I remember him kind of explaining it. He means like ya know, at FIRST Harry believes it’s unrequited and he’s just kind of following Ginny around and such- until she breaks up with Dean. It takes forever for them to actually get together. And also, taking into account how the films seem to be going on the track of “Ginny is always shy around Harry” until she gets a boyfriend in HBP, after realizing Harry just is not taking the right kind of notice to her in OotP. That’s when Harry finally likes her. lol I don’t mean to just prattle on, just trying to clear it up for myself and others by typing! :)
Some people just focus on what was cut, and not what’s included. If they did lengthen Snape’s worst memory, what the hell would it have done with the movie? That memory was important not until the 7th book, and no one knew that except for Rowling herself. As a subplot in the 5th movie, that was not important. They can always show the memory again in the 7th movie anyway.
I really like Yates because he respects the fans. He’s not like some other directors who were just in it for the money and the bragging rights of having to direct a HP movie. :-)
Don’t worry Michelle you are not alone!!! (Re you post on September 24, 2007 @ 01:53 PM)
Loads and loads and loads of people absolutely love the films – its just they don’t post much on HP sites. HP sites are mainly the hunting ground the the ‘HP book fundamentalists’ Don’t let them spoil your enjoyment.
Sorry, but I’m also having trouble finding the actual link for the interview. The only link I see is one at the end of the post that says “Download the latest Flash Player™ here,” and goes to a macromedia.com site. Help?
Kay: I hope they don’t write Snape as the hero of the series and a father figure for Harry, because then it certainly won’t be accurate to the books where Harry is the hero and Snape is a relunctant helper who still treats Harry and all his friends extremely poorly throughout all the books. I do like Snape, but the filmmaker’s vision shows no sign of not matching up with JKR’s personal one- very brave, but still cruel and definitely an anti-hero. Personally I find Snape a bit more likeable in the movies, just because Rickman’s portrayal comes across funnier.
Doobah: Iawtc. Snape is barely in HBP, despite being important at the end. We only see one DADA class with him, even.
What the hell does he mean by unrequited? If they even think about cutting a single moment of H/G relationship (kiss and all), I will be writing WB and Mr. Heyman 50 times a day asking for the money I’ve spent on all the books and movies and DVDs back, with compensation!
They better not even dare ruining Harry and Ginny, or there’ll be some major a** whipping.
Kreacher was included in the OOTP film only because, apparently, Jo let them know it was something they would be needing later on. So, yes, sometimes things are included that have their major payoff in future films.
In any case, in every film there is some extra screen time spent on “spectacular” visuals which could have been saved to expand other scenes, if desired. If they needed an extra 15 seconds or so to show Lily in the SWM scene, they could have scraped it up somewhere. So it wasn’t a time factor in that case, at least; it was a deliberate decision to omit her.
Fragestellar: Not to mention, Yates is the one who said the movies needed to be shorter not WB. As far as I’ve seen it isn’t WB pressure that we can blame OotP’s length on, it’s Yates. I do like the guy but he wants shorter HP movies and I don’t agree with that.
As for Harry/Ginny- it will be kept intact! I found his comment a bit odd but Dan has already verified that he will be kissing Bonnie in this movie and that interview was very recently. Remember that Harry thinks it is unrequited for a huge portion of the book.
But it IS unrequited … or at least, it seems so. Remember that for most of the book, Harry, and the reader, think that Ginny isn’t interested in him any more. She’s with Dean, and she seems happy with Dean. Harry spends most of the book jealous about Dean, and we only find out that Ginny still likes Harry through the “blazing look” she gives him moments before the kiss. So Yates is quite right to take this route.
And of course, the kiss and the actual relationship will be in the movie – they won’t introduce Harry having feelings for someone without it going anywhere. Yates has said he put the Ginny-jealous-of-Cho moments into OotP to set up things in HBP, so he seems to be taking the route JKR took – Ginny fancied Harry, realised he liked Cho, apparently decided to get on with her life and got together with Dean; Harry now falls for Ginny, but thinks it’s unrequited and gets jealous, but in the end, it turns out she does still like him. I don’t see what the problem is.
The problem is that Ginny never really did move on, and has always loved Harry. That cannot show her NOT loving him, or ignoring him, or not being considerate of his feelings. They can show a disconnection, miscommunication, and all that. But unrequited love is a whole other thing. That’s another emotion all together.
If you guys pay close attention to OOTP you will find that it is quite obvious that the H/G thing will indeed happen and anyways a major plot line like that cannot be ignored considering where they will be in 19 years after book 7.
Since they left out quidditch altogether in Ootp, the sudden reappearance will be making non-readers think about where was it all in movie 5, but oh well.
About the movie, it is obvious that they cant give the same experience as the book as always, but they are making them to sell not to please fans.
BUT, they now have Evana on the team and I really hope she passes on some hardcore fandom to the makers. I mean a real fan of the series can really tell what the favorite parts of a book is.
Altogheter i would feel better if someone from the productions would tell me face to face why some things arent in and why some useless stuff are in the movies, but i guess thats how we all feel.
Not that its necessary, but I hope the Quidditch match has Luna commentary! I’ll be interested to see how much screentime she gets…I’m assuming it will be very little…
I thought that Gambon was an okay Dumbledore, and better than Harris, but his portrayal in GOF and OOTP was terrible!!! Why does he keeping shouting and stamping around??
I reckon Jim Broadbent should double up as Slughorn and Dumbledore! He has a very dotty look about him…like your Dads just been at the gin… :)
"...you will raise your wand -- thus -- and cry [i]'Riddikulus'[/i] -- and concentrate hard on your grandmother's clothes. If all goes well, Professor Boggart Snape will be forced into that vulture-topped hat, and that green dress, with that big red handb
Um, guys, they aren’t gonna change the name of the movie. They will still have to have the HBP, and all that Snape business. But that doesn’t really attract the people who haven’t read the books. Romance and action do. lol Sadly. And PLUS, it is kind of supposed to be a surprise that Snape is the HBP soo…
And he’s talked about the “unrequited” thing before. I remember him kind of explaining it. He means like ya know, at FIRST Harry believes it’s unrequited and he’s just kind of following Ginny around and such- until she breaks up with Dean. It takes forever for them to actually get together. And also, taking into account how the films seem to be going on the track of “Ginny is always shy around Harry” until she gets a boyfriend in HBP, after realizing Harry just is not taking the right kind of notice to her in OotP. That’s when Harry finally likes her. lol I don’t mean to just prattle on, just trying to clear it up for myself and others by typing! :)