Alas.

@herpo: I would imagine a person who spends more time with the franchise will have a better understanding of what to do for the next installment. And actually, how can he have close to zero experience, he’s directed a very successful Harry Potter film, wouldn’t a new director be much closer to zero experience? Just because Yates did a lot of TV work doesn’t mean he’s an amateur. Yes, because you thinking Yates is a bad choice means they aren’t taking it seriously.

Oh…WTF? Frankly, I’d say the verdict is still out on who screwed up the fifth film more, Yates or Goldenberg. Hopefully Kloves + Yates will be a better team. Why in the heck are they sticking with the bargain basement TV director in favor of someone with a bit more vision and experience anyway? It’s not like they can’t afford someone better.

DrakeHallowsWeasley is gonna love this one!! LMAO

@ Emelye ‘Kloves + Yates ‘

Kloves added a scene that doesn’t excist in the book..

at least Goldenberg only added Nigel, not a whole new scene involving the burrow burning down and Bella, other DE and Greyback attacking Harry etc.!!

ohh man i hope not. the fifth movie is by far my least favorite of the lot. it felt very lacking in more ways then one. i’m fearful for the sixth movie(since i loved the book) and i think i will banged my head to the wall if this rumor turns out true.

i think either two movies for the seventh book with two different directors, or make a long movie, i mean think about each LOTR movie was at least 3 hours long and people sat through it very nicely(i haven’t heard any bad comments about it’s length) what’s so wrong about doing it for the 5th(since if they would have done that i do think i would have been more content with the movie- so much was lacking :-/) and 7th movie. i think about 3 to 3.5 hours will do the trick.

just if some one who is in charge read’s this(like the producers or JK please two movies by yates is more then i can take) BTW don’t all take me wrong i think yates is a good director i had the chance of seeing one of his movies a while ago. however i think that regarding the harry potter world he is in way over his head.

in the end its- just in case….

Darn, he’d have been great for directing The Giver (I just recently re-read it and it is by far one of the best books I’ve ever read)!! I’m so excited for that to become a film; I hope they begin it in black and white, then change to color once Jonas starts to see colors!

But I think since he’s the only director who’s actually read the books entirely, he knows what the book fans need to see. :) I’d be happy to see him direct the final one.

Indeed a very good decision, for a change.

From the early beginning, I was utterly dissatisfied with changes that happened on the director position in the Harry Potter movies. Although I thoroughly respect all four directors that have so far been chosen for the mission of directing, I thought that for the series’ sake, one director should have been selected to direct all seven movies and create one whole plot, such as the case with Rowling – ahem, ahem – and the books.

He gets to ruin the 5th, 6th and now the 7th?

I hear Tim Burton is a very good director. whistles

Few thoughts:

1. It always made sense to me that the director of the 6th is best suited to be director of the 7th (despite the fact he also did 5).

2. The director has some sway in the decision to do 2 movies or 1. I hope the fact that Yates has done two already when he takes up 7 means he is still willing to do two parts. They can be filmed at the same time (as thats the logical thing to do)

3. I think hes a great director, though there is a little bit of me that wishes the 7th film had a fresh director…I’ll see how I feel after watching HBP

well I’ll be happy if that’s true. I’m happy with Yates or Cuaron.

But please can we have a 4 hour film (as one film with interval), so that we don’t have to see too many cuts or rushing from scene to scene?

Excellent news – now someone lock Steve Kloves in a well stocked cupboard for the next couple of years and get Michael Goldenberg to write the screenplay!

another plus of Yates is that he does a good job with the acting and the actors seem to like working with him. That’s a major plus in my view.

Jason, I just want to let you know that actually the director has most of the say in what gets cut and what doesn’t. My dad is a producer, and though not for anything even nearly as big as HP, I’ve been to a lot of movie sets and seen how things tend to work behind the scenes. If the director doesn’t like the way something sounds or ends, they usually have the right to change it. They can also request certain scenes to be written to specifically fit the director’s vision. Like in the third movie, I can guarantee that the writer didn’t write in the talking heads, but that they were added at Alfonso’s request. I hate when people blame the writer for things, when the director is the one who put it in the finished movie 99% of the time. Of course it could be different for the HP movies… but I doubt it.

So anyways, I’d be very happy if Yates returned, I think he did the best job by far condensing the longest book into the best movie. People who still want Alfonso to return need to look at the facts, the 3rd movie made almost 100 MILLION dollars less than the second least-grossing HP film. I don’t know about anyone else, but 100 million dollars is A LOT of money. People blamed the length of the book, and again the writer, for all the cuts that he made, but since the writer was the same for the first four movies, and since the actors were for the most part, the same, then the only thing that changed was the director. So I think the decrease in profit should weigh 100% on the director, and he should not be allowed to return. If you watch the behind the scenes interviews, he seems way too full of himself… which is enough of a reason for me to not want him back.

Congrats David Yates if this is true!!