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I quite frankly wouldn’t mind a two part DH. I think it would be the best way to end the series as a movie. Plus, if they got Steven that would be even better. However, it would honestly depend on if they did a good job. If DH just plain sucks then there is no way the second part of it would be any good. WB needs to get over the 1hr and 30minutes deal first before I’m going to seriously think of them making HBP and DH amazing. The last two books/movies need that much time.

I think it is a great plan. There would be so many meaningful scenes left out in a two and a half hour film version! I have lately been wishing that Order of the Phoenix had been done in two parts, and also HBP, filming right now…. We fans can eat all of what those obedient elves can cook up!!!!

PLEASE let it be two films!!! If both were 2 1/2 hours, then the whole story would be 5 hours!!! That would be sooooo awesome!!! I don’t really care when they come out. It can be a month, 6 months, or a year to release both, I WILL WAIT that long for the nice, long, decent, emotional, action-packed story that Deathly Hallows is! And I hope WB picks Guillermo del Toro or Alfonso Cuaron to direct! So excited!!!

Of all the books Deathly Hallows is the last one I feel needs two films.

If they didn’t do Phoenix and HBP in two films why stat now? The only way this makes sense if they are going to somehow try and fit in all of the subplots they never set up into previous movies into this one (Lupin and Tonks, SPEW, Neville’s backstory….etc)

Not even sure how they cut the movie into 2 parts considering we spent 7 months in a tent in this book

Speilberg seems like an odd choice, I’m still praying for Peter Jackson, but I doubt that will happen.

I don’t want it in two parts. I would like a 4 hour long movie.

I don’t know if WB looks at these comments at all, but if they do, I want to add my two cents and say, YES, MAKE IT 2 MOVIES!

Making these books into one movie each really hasn’t made anybody happy.

Those who don’t read the books (shame on those old enough to be able to and haven’t) are left confused.

Those who do read the books are always having to apologize to their friends, explaining “the books are better, really!” and explaining crucial plot points left out or why they are upset because “that’s was just wrong!”

The books just have too much detail that are important for character development and flow. How can you show how hard life on the road was for the trio if in film it lasts 30 seconds? The breakout of Gringotts could take up 1/2 the movie all by itself. Are they just going to skip the heartbreaking burial of Dobby? Will they even show Fred? How short are they going to make Snape’s memory?

And as far as Oscars or other awards, they can’t give them to movies that have had such choppy scenes and are confusing. The movies have to being able to flow!

YES, YES and YES, make it two movies! Part I comes out in June, Part II on October 31st. DO IT!!!!

I hate to say this but i predicted this before Christmas. The amount of money would be wow to big to think about. I see it this way, one released in November and the other in the summer. WOW it could happen, i sure hope so:)

One more thing they could open it in conjuction with WB opening the theme park.

Smart move. Warner will be able to have a field day with the Harry/Hermione kiss in the first movie, then the Hermione/Ron kiss in the second half. With the Dan and Emma chemistry, Warner would be stupid not to promote it like crazy.

They can make it into as many parts as they like … in my perfect world there would be a complete movie that starts when Hermione conjures a flask out of thin air for Harry to capture Snape’s memories and ends when Harry finishes seeing them in the pensieve.

Two full hours of Snape! (That might set my friends at Snapecast all abuzz) ...

they’ve already left out the locket, the mirror, the fidelius charm, regulus, mundungus, lily/snape, S.P.E.W., and they WILL leave out Bill and Fluer and most likely Remus/Tonks so WHAT do they have to PUT in two parts??

on speilberg…. no comment.

I see nothing wrong with doing a two part DH. I want them to get everything in that they can. I do say this though…if they do decide on a two-part DH, do it right. Put in everything you can…the whole entire sink, but do it whole series justice. I mean flashbacks and everything if you have to. Also NO SPIELBERG. Also if they decide on a two-parter, they have to make sure that releases are very close…within a month or two. PLEASE DO NOT go the route of the Matrix. That was the greatest downfall of that series in my opinion, because they released Matrix Reloaded with that to be continued craziness in May, then had fans waiting until November to find out what finally happened in Revolutions. That was seven months for fans to sit and talk about what happened—the good and the bad…seems fans focused more on the bad. So much so that by the time November came, there were some who didn’t want to even see the movie. I don’t want that to happen to DH. So if they decide on a two-parter, they should have releases tops within a few months difference of each other.

I like that idea. Although I’d rather wait a long time and have them both within 6 months of each other, than wait a year for the first then another year for the second.

But – Spielberg? I know everyone’s always going on about how good he is at directing.. But I don’t think that should be the only factor. I don’t know a great deal about him, but I’d rather have a film that was true to the books, and heartfelt, than a film which honestly looks like the director was trying hard to appeal to the non-fans.

People who aren’t already big fans don’t matter by this stage. They were important up to the fifth one, but I think from then on it should be for us. I just think we deserve it, to be fair. Who’s going to be more disappointed if they don’t like it? Right. Us. The fans.

Oh, please don’t…the thing I’ve enjoyed most about the post-PoA movies is the feeling that the filmmakers have actually been trying to turn the books into actual MOVIES, redesigned for the language of film with appropriate changes in focus, framing and pacing, as opposed to the turgid, lumbering book-film mutants that Columbus gave us. For me, GoF was the most perfect HP adaptation to date, a fantastic translation of literary ideas into cinematic ones, giving the audience the same feeling as reading the book but in a totally different way, and I’d like the same from DH.

There’s no reason in the world that Deathly Hallows can’t be turned into a perfectly satisfying single film; it might end up running quite long to fit in all of the essential plotlines,even once you’ve trimmed some stuff out, but I can’t see why it would need to be any more than three hours. Making a two-parter would just say to me that they’re more committed to pandering to the demands of greedy executives and pedantic fans than they are to the actual filmmaking process, and I can’t support that: after all, if I want the full, unadulterated story, I always have the book. Just be brave, WB, and make a good FILM of DH; whatever it takes.

Absolutely no sodding way! It’ll cost me £10 to see both of them then!

YES to two films, NO TO SPEILBERG!!!!

yeah yeah yupi !!!! two parts!!!!

Muddtallica: GoF the best adaption so far? A definite no in my opinion and it was the film that was most slated by critics. It was clunky, badly scripted and horribly acted.

I’d quite like a two part Deathly Hallows film as it was one of my favourite books in the series and I’d really like to see them do it justice. However, this does seem rather like a money-making scheme than an artistic move. They haven’t made a huge effort to make these films canon in the past, why start now?

As much as I would love a 2 movie option , I see 2 main problems: 1. The “Trio” have signed on for only ONE movie 7. By making it 2 parts, its kind of like telling them they have to go to school another year. I believe they truly enjoy doing the films, but there is a sense that they are looking forward to life after Harry Potter.

2. The “trio” adore David Yates. I believe they would all want to continue with him, more than any other director.

I think DH could be made into one film. It would be closer to 3 hours, but it can be done.

If they were to find the real locket in HBP then that would allow them to easily streamline the plot in DH. We don’t need Kreacher’s tale, Regulus, or the trip to the Ministry. I found these side plots to be kind of meandering to read and it would be even worse if they translated it to film. I thought that the whole R.A.B. mystery at the end of HBP was sooo cool, and it was pretty anti-climatic for Harry to just walk by his door and be like: “Regulus Black, R.A.B.. Eureka! Good thing we happened to escape to Grimmauld Place so that we could catch this lucky lead.” Regulus has it, then Kreacher has it, then Mundungus has it, and then we go for a trip to the Ministry where it’s not even going to be Dan, Rupert, and Emma but three random people we don’t know and there’s no real exciting escape scene. It was ok for the book, but I don’t see how they could translate that to screen without movie audiences wondering what the whole point is, and why they aren’t getting on with the main plot.

So, the whole reason for my rambling is that if they cut out Kreacher’s Tale, the Ministry, and other middle men (such as Xenophilius Lovegood), this could most certainly be one film.

However, it could also be two films if they want to stick to the book. The first film would HAVE to be “Harry Potter and Slytherin’s Locket” (I’m not suggesting a title change, just stating the general idea of the movie). Each film will have to have it’s own story arc, and the only logical split would be for one to deal with finding/dealing with/destroying the locket, with the subplots being Voldemort’s continuing gain of power, Dumbledore’s past starting to be revealed (the cliff-hanger being when Harry reads Rita’s book in the forest), and the Muggeleborn persecution, with minor subplots of Ron/Hermione, Harry/Ginny, and the mysterious symbol. Of course the subplots will be continued in part two, but the locket part would be resolved in part one. This part would have to end with the tent scene after Ron destroys the locket. There’s no huge battle at the end, but there would be battles within the movie, and there is enough plot to tell one story I think. These books are NOT action books; they’re character adventure books. But I still don’t know if destroying the locket would be enough of a climax.

The second movie would then have it’s focus on the Deathly Hallows, starting with their trip to Xenophilius Lovegood. The subplots would be the same as the first movie in addition to finding and destroying the rest of the Horcruxes.

Now that I wrote out the plots for the two films, the first film would definitely be weaker, but if done right, it could still be a very good movie. There’ll be some action, some romance, some mystery, and a lot of drama and emotion.

Now I’m torn. It could be done in one, but two parts wouldn’t be too bad. This is probably pointless speculation anyways since the rumor is most likely false.

As for Spielberg, he has made some fantastic films, and he can do dark (Saving Private Ryan and Shindler’s List come to mind) but I haven’t been impressed with him lately and I do worry that his version of Deathly Hallows would be too commercial and superficial. I could see it either being Oscar-worthy or terribly cheesy in his hands. I don’t know who I want to direct. Some parts of Pan’s Labyrinth were very impressive, but I didn’t feel as though Del Toro properly explained things and I didn’t feel like he successfully incorporated the fantasy plot into the real life plot. So I have mixed feelings about him. I also have mix feelings about Cuaron: I loved Children of Men and I actually kept thinking of that film while reading DH for the first time, but this movie is going to HAVE to have exposition and he doesn’t like that.