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!
The WGA UK has supported the WGA US strike, and have said that there members should too. They say that if their members work for American companies, they will have no career afterwards. :( While showing solidarity is one thing, this comes across as a bit oppessive.
As for the screenwriter….as long as they do a good job and capture the essence of the book (regardless of their previous work) I’ll be happy.
Guys, don’t be so hard on Kloves. Super Hermione was more of an invention done by Cuaron. I’ve read the poa script and Ron had good moments on the film. He wasn’t crying “Harry, Harry” while Sirius was taking him, instead, when Harry got hold of him, Ron let go of him. That’s our Ron! Cuaron was the one who made him cry like a coward.
I never new there was a WGA UK. Why don’t they just get a British writer to do it then saying that the strike will be over be the time they start the 7th film.
Who was responsible for the weird emotionless dialogue in OOTP, and the uncomfortable pauses and all that? Was that the screenwriter, and was that screenwriter Steve Kloves? If so, I hope he isn’t back. Or was it the director’s fault? In any case, that movie was completely unwatchable (in my opinion), and I hope the people they bring on for movie 7 are very different than the people who worked on movie 5. Does anyone know about the music? I hope they get John Williams back.
I’m actually glad Kloves is back! I’m not particularly fond of his take on HP but at least he’s better than Goldenberg, who completely slaughtered OotP.
As for the 7th being split in two, I’m all for it! But I think they wouldn’t have needed to do it if so, so much stuff hadn’t been left out of the others (OotP mainly).
I REALLY hope Spielberg doesn’t direct, I want Del Toro for the 7th, he would be beyond perfect!! It’s his kind of movie. Or Gilliam would be great too!
Steve Kloves…......I was hoping for someone else…......almost anyone else…...even the guy who wrote “The Queen’s Handbag”skit for the Queen’s birthday did a better job ,he did a job of his translation of the books and caputured aspecks not tounched on before ,for the films. :o)
Kloves just doesn’t get how to translate JKR’s wonderful books into a form for the screen.He delutes all the character’s lines ,including Harry’s.
But i am full of hope that he will put more thought into this last film,hopefully it will not be ” Hermione Saves the Day ” .
I’ll stand with hpfan on Kloves…he cut very little of importance from the script—several scenes were filmed and then deleted, which aint his fault. And didnt JKR indicate all along that her preference was to have one screen writer, and that would be Steve Kloves?
In comparison, look at all the plot and subplot lines missing from OotP! Since my criteria is “coherence of story line”, and given the numerous omissions in OotP (note, I do not specifically blame Yates or Goldenberg or Mark Day the editor, but rather alll three of them as having collective decision making power), I’d rather see Kloves…even if some dialogue is clunky
...and give Evanna Lynch the final say in everything, she’s a least a die-hard fan like we are
Well actually in my opinion Kloves served Ron a lot better than Glodenberg: in the OotP we never see him… I paid attention to his scenes, and I think he’s even in less scenes than that awful Nigel…Hermione is always there, she has a lot of lines, even useless ones, while Ron never speaks… I think his character was better described in Kloves’s screenplays.
And I agree with Rhiannon: one thing is the screenplay and a completely different thing is the director’s view….
I hope they just make it a really good 3 hour long film like LOTR:Return of the King was and I will be happy. I don’t think it will work to split it up, that would just be too complicated. But I am happy that Steve Kloves is coming back. He and JKR are so close that I think he’s the only one that can faithfully adapt the books to screen, even though Michael Goldenberg did a great job with OOTP.
wow…did you guys watch movies 1-4 and then OofP? I mean Kloves at least kept close to the storyline. I mean dont know about you, but the whole ministry scene being cut was terrible in OofP. i was so looking forward to that. I’m glad Kloves is back. I think he understands the material way better than any other screenwriter. Plus he has the experience. You guys are crazy for hating him
As for director, I’d like one of the one’s that already made HP film. Preferably Newel as Goblet seemed the most grown up film, and DH should be quite grown up. But Yates or Cuaron would be good too I think. As for score I’d like to see Patrick Doyle back for the 7th, his music is incredibly beautiful.
Steve Kloves is from Texas not from England so he might be a member of WGA
I hope he will not ruin Ron’s character (again)
I hope both Kloves and the director of DH (I prefer Tim Burton or Del Toro for that and definitely not Spielberg) will stay faithful to the book as much as possible and the only way for that to happen is to make two films. I cannot see any cons to this choice
"Ron! Ron! Are you all right?" squealed Hermione.[br]Ron opened his mouth to speak, but no words came out. Instead he gave an almighty belch and several slugs dribbled out of his mouth onto his lap.
The WGA UK has supported the WGA US strike, and have said that there members should too. They say that if their members work for American companies, they will have no career afterwards. :( While showing solidarity is one thing, this comes across as a bit oppessive.
As for the screenwriter….as long as they do a good job and capture the essence of the book (regardless of their previous work) I’ll be happy.