wow, you guys are a negative bunch. it reads like ‘harry potter glass half-empty club’... cheer up. this is all purely about entertainment! and face it, you’ve all already made the film in your heads, right?!

One three hour movie. NO Spielberg. Del Toro, Burton, Gilliam or even Curaun would get it better. Yes to Kloves. He loves HP. He understands it. Don’t confuse what he has written (because you didn’t get to read it) with the director’s vision, and what occurs in the cutting room.

Sorry, unless the WB allows the movies to be 3 hours (Which they haven’t yet) then lots of the charming, nit-picky details that all of us HP fanatics love, are going to be left out. All of you armchair scriptwriters, get out your red pen and try to condense HBP down to 200 pages. Not easy.

I think that a new screenwriter, but one who really understands the books would be better. Also I think i am in the bunch who didnt like Cuaron’s directing all that much but I did like David Yates’, although three movies is perhaps a bit too many. I’d personally like a new director and screenwriter for the last film… sigh… oh well it will still be an awesome film no matter what right? All the others have been. well mostly…

Kloves? no!!! Aw is there anyway that Goldenberg isn’t part of this writer strike and if the strike carries on he can chip in. I agree with you ‘Silly Girl’ It’l be Hermione taking over the show, she’ll be the true master of the Elder Wand and once Ron leaves the camp Kloves will conveniently forget to write him back in! (Slight exaggeration but i think you get my position on Kloves) Please rehire Michael Goldenberg. oh and by the way pigwidgeon Kloves is American

sigh…Kloves. I didn’t really realize why people wre critizing him until I saw OOTP. I liked Goldenberg much better. He portrayed Ron (and Hermione) way better. And I Kloves always seemed like an H/Hr shipper. In the last movie, I think it was obvious that Ron and Hermione liked each other. (Maybe too much…half the time when they walked in it looked like they had just finished a snogging session.)

Great, Kloves is back, can’t wait to see Hermione dueling with Voldie, after Dd bites Harry’s head off at King’s cross. I just hope they’ll get good director, if only Yates could stay, he gets the characters.

Why are the Harry Potter films effected by the writers strike. I thought if the strike only effected the USA not Great Britain.

The strike affects writers and the writer is american.

We should get a british writer to do the screenplay. Someone who loves the characters and has the time. Hey, how about that JK Rowling woman? Think she’d be up to the task? :)

Freddie: Steve Kloves is a member of the WGA and therefore cannot work (as of now)—so it affects the entire process, even if he’s only one guy. (But other people involved in the making of Potter films are undoubtedly members of WGA, too. . . and maybe even some British people, as is evidenced by JOHN OLIVER of The Daily Show).

I’m going to put on a protective helmet, since I’m about to do the unthinkable and (gasp) actually defend Steve Kloves a little bit.

I’ll be the first to admit that Kloves has made some bad scriptwriting decisions, especially in regard to Ron’ character, but I think the guy gets a lot more criticism than he really deserves. He’s given us some pretty good moments, too, for which he is rarely given credit. He wrote some wonderful trio friendship moments in PS. And there was that brilliantly subtle moment in GoF between Harry and Ron on the Hogwarts Express, when Harry offered to pay for Ron’s food and Ron declined. That scene conveyed all of Ron’s feelings about his financial status, his unwillingness to let someone else pay his way, the awkwardness this caused him to feel around Harry, etc. It was done in one brief moment, with very few words, and I thought it was one of the most brilliant scenes in all the movies.

In general, I agree that Goldenberg is much better, but I don’t think Kloves is half as bad as everyone else does. I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt about DH, especially since it sounds as though he wrote some really nice moments for Ron in HBP. In fact, it sounds as though they’re really going for the whole Ron storyline with a lot of gusto this time around, which will be a treat.

As far as directors for DH, I’m just hoping and praying that David Yates comes back. That’s not a slight on the other directors whose names have been mentioned (except for Cuaron, who should never, ever, ever be allowed anywhere near these movies again). It’s simply that I love David Yates so much. He seems to “get it” in a way that none of the other directors have done, and I WANT HIM BACK FOR DH!!

It’s hard to say who ’s better between Kloves and Goldenberg, because there are scenes they wrote that we’ve never seen.

They both made good job and I think at the end it’s the director who has the biggest impact on the story.

Kloves/Cuaron worked really well ! Kloves/Newell wasn’t really great !

You know what, I’m staying optimistic about Kloves. I love POA, and, dang it, he did the script for that one! So I’m keeping my chin up! :D And I know there are a lot of people out there who don’t like Kloves, but wait and see what he does with Yates on HBP- don’t judge him yet. :) Oh, and I hope the strike doesn’t ruin everything- I don’t wanna wait any longer than I have to. :(

When in 2007 the cast signed up for the final films, did they sign up for film 6 and 7 or for films 6, 7part 1 and 7 part 2. Surley it will effect the contracts signed by the cast…or at least if their agents are worth their weight in gold. it should do.After all despite how it’s filmed, if true be an extra film!

Danielle, that scene on the train with Harry offering to pay for Ron was not written by Kloves. He said in an interview that the director added that in.

Am so glad to hear WB is at least considering a two-part DH. I just don’t see how they could do justice to it otherwise.