I agree, Irvin. It’s important to realize that the movies will never be the books. I feel that it’s more important to capture on screen the feeling that the books give as you read them and I feel that PoA has done this the best. I understand why some people don’t like it (it does cut out some important information) but it arguably the most “accurate” film in terms of mood. Visually, it is the most stimulating which is also very important (otherwise you’re better off popping in an Audio Book). I liked Cuarón and I feel he or Del Toro would do a fantastic job on DH.
I do not dislike Cuaron , I think him an excellent director. I just didn’t like what he did with POA. And there are two points of view on his work on POA and fans who feel both ways —love it or do not like it -—but have the right to each ponit of view.Most of us are also fans of the films and have different views ,of each of the films [and directors ]that should be respected.
I think it we’ll be a very good thing if either Cuaron or Del Toro directs the last movie because they are both very good directors !
I would have to say i agree with DEL Toro. DH has to be the best movie of them all. Harry must go out with a bang. The fight at the ministries of magic was good but the final battle in DH must be a theatrical masterpiece. Note to Warner Brothers spare no expense on DH because will break boxoffice records no doubt :)
having guillermo is gonna be just like cuaron. i dunno if i could take that for the FINAL film. no weird settngs. no dark stuff. no enigmatic undertones. JUST KICK BUTT ACTION!!!!! and stop moving hagrid’s hut, please.
Del Toro is simply campaigning for the job (he, like MANY other directors, would give their left arm to direct movie 7). The same way he’s doing for the Hobbit. The same way that Alfonso Cuaron did a few months back. PoA is the ONE movie (although I do like it) that has a very very different feel than all of the other movies. My feeling is that if David Yates does as great of a job on the 6th movie that he did on the 5th, they’ll HAVE to select him to do movie 7. You want a consistent approach, especially considering that JKR herself said that book 6 and 7 are themselves just two parts in one big final story. If they got a new director for movie 7, that’d be very very risky.
I really want to see John William for the soundtrack of the last movie because he made a wonderful job on PoA.
Currently Cuaron and Yates are the best director of the HP movies. Their movies are working independently of the books. Of course there are still some parts of the story missing, but I think we can hope for an extented version of Ootp.
Newell made a average job but his movie is good because the book is good that’s all.
On the contrary the two Columbus movies are kind of bad, he was a free risk director for the Warner. Yes the complete story is present but the “ambiance”, the spirit of the books is not.
I’ll be very happy to see Cuaron or Del Toro behind book 7 because they are trully good director with their own artistic visions.
Cuaron was the best HP director. Let’s assume it, if he didn’t do what he did, nobody (talking about directors) would pay attention to Potter. He’s the one who made Potter look cool and desirable. As a franchise to direct, of course.
i will be overjoyed if he directs this movie! i thought cuaron’s film was the absolute best of the five thus far and since their styles are so similar i’d be so happy with either of them. they understand something deeper about the story and what they leave out is perfect.
I was just thinking about DH last night and this morning….I’m trying to figure out what they might cut out but it’s hard because everything was so crucial. I haven’t seen Pan’s Labyrinth but it looks good. I dunno…I don’t think Del Toro is a bad choice but he probably isn’t the best.
Right now, I’m not too keen on ‘trying out’ another director on the most important final 7th movie- and I don’t think WB is either. So I think it’ll probably be Yates or Cuaron for DH, which would be totally fine with me. I think I’d rather have Yates, but, I enjoyed POA too, so I wouldn’t really mind Cuaron. But, if in the end it happens to be Del Toro, I’ll keep faith, and wait to see what he produces- it could be great. :)
I really hope this doesn’t happen!! OotP was the best movie of the series so far, and I don’t blame them for cutting a bit out of the book. Even Jo herself said she’d trim the book down. The movie was visually stunning, and the creative liberties taken were minimal and not too terrible. I would absolutely love to see Yates finish off the series, I don’t think any other director would do it justice. As to Cuaron, PoA is my least favorite movie by far. He made it into an art film. While it was visually nice, he took WAY too many liberties with the book. Shrunken heads? No marauders? Kangaroo-ish werewolf? Hunchbacked Tom? That all seems a bit iffy to me… DH absolutely MUST be the best film in the series and the film also needs to capture the absolute terror that the book brings with it. Yates has proven himself with OotP, and the last 3 books are by far the most pivotal. Let him finish the series! Oh, and I think the director of the previous film gets first chance at directing the next one. Yates has said he loves the world, and so hopefully he’ll stick with it if/when it’s offered to him.
It’s not going to happen. The first director WB asks to direct the new HP movie is ALWAYS the “last HP director” and since David Yates accepted HBP and since he’s having such a blast on the set of HP, I’m quite certain the director of DH will be…............David Yates, again.
And he’s obviously the best HP director. He got the BEST acting performances out of all the actors, managed to make the most boring book (though the book was still amazing) into something more action-packed and kept the dark, sinister mood the book had. He did all this with virtually no experience. Now that he’s directed OotP his experience has more than tripled….imagine what he could do in DH!
While I enjoy the movies in general, I believe that series has suffered due to the fragmented vision of so many different directors. I can’t understand why it is more difficult to get one person to commit to completing 7 films than it is to get the entire cast on board for them. Obviously, the look of the films varies with each director and some are certainly better than others. I agree that Cuaron was a disaster. For one thing I just don’t get the music. It sounds like something that belongs in a Shakespearian play rather than a modern day fantasy. And even though I loved the look of OOTP I really missed some of my favorite parts of the novel and I felt that Yates focused on irrelevant topics. If you add up the segments with Filtch putting up the Educational Decrees it must be 5 minutes! And you couldn’t show us the portable swamp instead? Come on! Anyway, don’t get me wrong, I am a huge film lover and Potter fan alike, but I’d really like to see a fabulous ambiance, a unified vision, and the correct focus in the series as a whole. Also, I think that Del Toro might do a great job!
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No. Only to “purists”/Columbus loyalists like yourself. I actually WANT a dark, artistic Harry Potter movie. I hate it when Cuaron haters assume they’re the only REAL fans. What about HP fans who LOVE Cuaron’s work? They’re not true fans?