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!
zomg there gonna make THE GIVER into a movie?? David Yates would awesome at directing that Dan would be a sweeeeeeet Jonas… but i guess, if he likes HP so much, maybe…idk really long as Kreacher and Dobby are back and they call Tonks Dora…lol =)
Isnt it a liitle odd that OOTP, the longest HP book, was the shortest movie??? actually no it’s not a little odd it’s ridiculous!!
The movie was destined to suck being that short… it was so chopped up and messy it just didn’t make any logical sense!!!
The only reason why millions of people around the world went to watch it is b/c people just wanted to see a damn HP movie it had been such a long time. It had almost been a year and a little more than 8 months. It looked so good on the previews but it was a damn mess on screen.
It was all Yates-Goldenburg’s fault… they just don’t know how to make hp movies the way they should be, plain and simple. The script and the editing sucked and the music was worse. I mean what the hell do you call that? The music sounded stupid and childish and it didn’t fit with any of the emotion of the scenes. The Composer who made the score for the 1st, 2nd, and especially the 3rd should most definetly come back( I think his name was John Williams). The music was awesome in the third movie it fit with all of the emotion… HBP and DH are the saddest of the hp books they deserve to have the amount of emotional impact they did in the books as well as on screen.
Guys, we should start some petition, survey or something to make it so the final HP movie is the best b/c this is all we have left and i want to walk out that movie crying because it was touching not b/c it sucked!!!!
PLEASE!!!!!!!
I dont think that OOTP was a bad movie in fact i think it was the best but yet again im one of those people who think the movies just keep getting better and better and the more i watch OOTP the more i love it. of course when i first saw the movie i thought it went really fast then i saw it again and loved it even more (as i said earlier) and ive heard some of the things that there doing with Quiditch in the sixth movie and im thrilled with what is coming and if David Yates does the last movie i think it will be exelent!!! i like the countdown idea!!
no E.K. your not alone on that I completely agree that they get better with every installment- me and many others on this site have tried to explain to the “OOTP is the worst movie” haters that , that book took alot of twists and turns in the plot they had no choice but to slim it down to just the crucial info, that was needed. Yes Dobby and the locket could’ve been added but Jo looks at that and all the scripts as we know so if she didnt approve then she would’ve said. And as my idol Alan Rickman said very nobaly ” making a movie is not about just one person but it invloves a HUGE team of people”
so therefore I dont think there is one person to blame for things we dont like about the movies.
NO! Please no…I love David really…but…AHH…The Giver is SOOO much better suited to him, THATS what he should be doing…come on! He would make the giver brilliant!
huh?NO!
i thought it will be spielberg…
haistt!!!huhuhu
or maybe tim burton will be better,
Posted by vennice pacquing on February 19, 2008, 11:46 PM
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NO NO NO NO!! I wanted Alfonso Cuaron to direct the seventh movie. Azkaban was by far the best film of the series (I’ll admit they changed the characters a little two much…Ron and Hermione, anybody? ) but still, he did such a marvelous job. And he really got good performances out of the trio.
omg r u people deluded, the fifth film was the worst one of the bunch, it didnt connect with the audience and people who didnt read the book found it hard to follow!!!! PLEASE DO NOT BRING BACK YATES!!! besides his already done it twice(2nd time im hoping not as a bad as the first, i mean Ron had no lines!!! and i loves HBP). i vote for peter jackson or alfonso cuaron and the film should totally be 4 hours long, i’d sit through and watch it!!!!
@NO2YATES- just because we dont agree with you that OOTP was the worst doesnt mean we are delusional. We just like to look at this realistically- kind of like the new cast members who also get butchered every time we hear of a new one. I think based on what I know of how the world works we all need to remember ,including myself that we all percieve these films differently and we never have say so- besides if you are a true HP fan you will love the movie anyway. I have never seen any changes to the movies that have totally ruined the book to the point where they should be condemed all bad.
zomg there gonna make THE GIVER into a movie?
? David Yates would awesome at directing that Dan would be a sweeeeeeet Jonas… but i guess, if he likes HP so much, maybe…idk really long as Kreacher and Dobby are back and they call Tonks Dora…lol =)