A follow up today regarding the rumor on a possible two part film of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.Empire magazine is reporting WB told them “no decision has been made about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” Also, Empire states Steven Kloves will be back as screenwriter for the final Harry Potter movie, as they say he “hasn’t starting writing the script yet, since the WGA strike prevents him from doing so.” One final note: We are still trying to obtain more on the director rumor for “Deathly Hallows”, and we will update with more on this when we can. Thanks adrian, katy, and d!
Sigh….Not Kloves again. I’m not a fan of his writing at all. It isn’t just his misrepresentation of the characters (particularly Ron and Hermione), it’s also that most of his original dialog is pretty bad and some excruciatingly cheesy. I was hoping for someone else to take over as screenwriter.
I also hope that the whole writer’s strike doesn’t stall the filming of DH. Dan, Rupert, and Emma deserve to be able to make the film in a timely manner so that they can concentrate on the future. They’ll also be able to play their epilogue characters as is if the decide to wait too long. They should have just hired a British screenwriter that wouldn’t be affected by the strike. Then again, hopefully, this won’t be a big factor in production.
I am glad that Steven Kloves is back as the screenwriter! (Doesn’t that mean that SOME decisions can be/have been made even though there is a strike?)
At any rate even though he cannot ‘officially’ work on the script because of the strike, I am sure that mentally he already well on his way. :-D
That’s just sad about Kloves coming for DH, now we can just flush down the toilet any possiblity for Ron’s locket scene to be given any justice, even if it was still there! sigh
I am glad Kloves will be back for the 7th movie because Michael Goldenberg, who replaced Kloves in the order of the phoenix, cut out a lot of important things (not that kloves hasn’t cut out important staff but I have got used to him). I understand of course that their work is very difficult and especially for Goldenberg who had to write the screenplay for the most difficult book of the series.
There’s only one thing that makes me have doubts about Kloves and that’s
Ron who is always overshadowed… WHY?? Ron is my favorite character
nooooo. I can’t stand Kloves. Goldenberg is much better. This film news keeps getting worse. Anyways, Kloves is British I think. and isn’t WGA just for Amercian people? You know what, I’m beyond caring about these films. I don’t think we’re ever going to get a decent one.
...Professor Lockhart would be unable to return next year, owing to the fact that he needed to go away and get his memory back. Quite a few of the teachers joined in the cheering that greeted this news.[br]"Shame," said Ron, helping himself to a jam dough
Well it sounds as though they are at least contemplating the possibility.