There is a new report online today regarding the possibility of David Yates returning to direct Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Children's author Lois Lowry has updated her blog with an entry regarding Mr. Yates who she had hoped would be directing the film version of her book "The Giver," but has now declined in order to helm movie seven in the Harry Potter series. Lois Lowry writes:
"David Yates, the director currently working on the next Harry Potter film, was supposed to begin The Giver film next. But he has just decided he wants to do the final Harry Potter first, thereby postponing The Giver by several years.
As reported previously, David Yates is working on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince which is currently in production in London, England, and has been one of the many names previously rumored to direct the final Harry Potter movie. Readers will also recall that we recently heard from producers David Barron and David Heyman who said that a few directors were under consideration for the job, and that we would hear more on the status of a director and a possibility of a two- part Deathly Hallows film soon. As exciting as this news is, please consider this a rumor until we receive confirmation from Warner Brothers.
Thanks very much Dani!
As long as we keep Alfonso Cuaron as far away as possible from that movie set, I’m cool. Those little “artistic” scenes were too much for me to take. PoA was 100% off base.
The longer and closer to the book the better. This movie needs to be perfect!
If this is true, will definitely not see the seventh movie. Or the sixth, for that matter. Well, maaaybe I’ll catch them on netflix or something.
I guess David Yates wouldn’t be so bad if the pacing wasn’t so terrible. What was with all the long awkward pauses in the OOTP? Is was unwatchable to me, and I only saw it once. As far as I’m concerned if Yates is the director there is nothing HPish to look forward to anymore. :( Sad.
HOOORRAY! ! ! Please make it true, please make it true. David Yates is the best HP director (as his work in OotP). DH in two part film? hhmmnn I’d rather go for 4hours
Holly, making a movie as long an acurate to the book as possible, doesn’t make it a good movie. Movies and books are completely different mediums. After five movies you should know that.
K….DON’T CARE AS LONG AS THAT THE MOVIE WILL BE OVER 3 HOURS AND CONTAINS ALL THE FIGHTING SCENES AND THE SUSPENSEFUL SCENES AND DOBBY AND KREACHER….PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH AND UH, I’D LIKE JOHN WILLIAMS TO MAKE THE MUSIC AGAIN PLEASE..HIS WORK IN THE 3RD FILM IS AMAZING I KEEP LISTENING TO IT!!!!
As I see it, more people loved cuaron and want him back Kaye. I could say the same thing about Yates. A lot people thought OOTP was ruined too. (I don’t agree though, I thought it was really good)
David Yates is an exceptional director, however, I think that they should also get a new director for the last movie. Tim Burton would do wonderfully, from all the darkness that is in the film ,or Alfonso Cauron. But I would love to see Peter Jackson or Guillermo del Toro, who directed Pan’s Labyrinth and is coincidentally friends with Alfonso take the reigns. Those are my picks. Steven Speilberg would be good, but he decline directing the first one because he wanted to turn it into an animated movie, but thats just my opinion.
I love the way David Yates makes Potter movies, so I hope he does Deathly Hallows. The only other director I’d be happy with, as somebody said in this post and as I too have said before, would be Tim Burton. He can make dark beautiful like no one else can, and I’ve yet to see one of his movies I didn’t love.
AGAIN??
!NO NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOO¡
ONE…WAS.. OK
TWO.. WAS TO MUCHTHREE….....DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT¡
PLEASE.. THE’RE ARE SO MANY DIRECTORS, WHY HIM???‘
As long as we keep Alfonso Cuaron as far away as possible from that movie set, I’m cool. Those little “artistic” scenes were too much for me to take. PoA was 100% off base.
The longer and closer to the book the better. This movie needs to be perfect!