You know… I’ll be finishing my VFX BA at the met film school before the last installment. I wonder if I could get a job in that department ^^ Can’t wait to try!!!
BRILLIANT NEWS!!! I really wanted DH to be split into two films – there is so much action, and it would be pathetic if they cut half of it =))) Plus, the Potter awesomness will last longer, and we’ll have more to look forward to, now that the saga is finished :))) And when DH II is released, there will be not much time left till the release of the Scottish Book (hopefully)! Long live Harry Potter!!! I joined the fandom only a year ago, and I want to enjoy Potteromania for as long as possible =)))
As for Yates and Cloves… I just hope that Yates won’t decide that Lavender Brown or Romilda Vane must join the Trio in the Horcrux quest (just to cover the topic of raging hormones), and Cloves won’t get too far in inventing new pointless scenes instead of keeping important subplots from the book… Grrrrr, sorry for being so mean, but I’m so scared that Movie 6 will be screwed up :(((
Can’t imagine anyone being less than thrilled by this. Cynical suspicion that it’s just for greater profit (which i don’t believe) seems to me like it would only come from non-readers and non-super fans anyway, who are just puzzled that its gone on this long and for so many films. And even if you believed that, so what? Ya get another film 6 mos later for $8-10? Hardly anything other than fantastic prospect.
I think the split will be right after Ron bails and Harry douses lights in camp while Hermione cries herself to sleep. That’d be weird for casual (are there such people?) fans in thtr. to see right before movie ends! Maybe that’s not far enough in, though.
Awesome news.
on response to tml
i think that the idea of splitting the movie into two films is so you can leave out as many cuts as possible. the idea of skipping the entire dobby death at shell cottage, the interrogation of ollivander and griphook, and the gringrotts scene is entirely ridiculous. how are you going to skip when harry recovers the hufflepuff cup (a horcrux), which is a major part of defeating voldemort.
i like the idea of splitting them around the shell cottage scene is a good idea. but im not sure if they should do it at the end of the malfoy manor scene or the right after the dobby death scene.
those with negative energy please leave the scene!!!1 U don’t wanna jinx the franchise now wouldn’t you?
I hate this idea. The actors will be too old for their parts by then!
Posted by hgh on March 12, 2008 @ 11:45 PM
Huh? They’ll be no older than they would be if it was just one movie.
And if a twenty-something actor can play Dawson at age 15, twenty-something actors can play an 18 year old and two 17 year olds.
IM so glad they finally confirmed it, after, what., nearly 3 months of rumours.
IM SO HAPPY! I think it’ll be great!
About the cut-off, I think it’ll be around the part when Ron returns. A lot of people have mentioned this, and I guess it seems pretty logical to have it end just about where Ron finishes off the horcrux, it seems nice and dramatic. Or just drag it till when Ron returns to the tent and sees Hermione and it’s like the trio are back together again. It’s kind of the half-way mark in the book, and it makes well for even a stand-alone kind of film so it doesn’t seem to random for non-super fans and still fits in well for the super fans!
I think it’s cool! I am sooooooo excited! The dates are to far away! They should have it more closer after Deathly Hallows part one. I am not sure about Yates as director, I would’ve rathered Cauron…he was way better but David still did a great Job at OOTP!
I have no idea where they’re going to cut it. I hate cliff-hangers (even if I know what happens!)and I dont know where they would cut it without a cliffhanger. What would’ve been better is to have a five hour movie. I would’ve watched it, but not many other people would.
Anna, ;D (GO RAVENCLAW and LEAKY!!!)
Yipppiiieeeee! I suggest they cut just after the escape from the Lovegoods’ house. So at the end of part I we’ll just have learned about the title’s meaning. Part II could start with Harry’s reflection and the hallows-horcruxes-question. Exciting news!!
I have never been a fan of this idea ONLY because I do not want to wait so long for the movie. I don’t do “patience” well and this is gonna kill me, I swear. But the thought of actually having DH represented properly, full length, on screen… Wow. That idea will hopefully sustain me through THREE YEARS of endless waiting! I was already complaining about not getting DH until summer of 2010. Crud.
I have mixed feelings about Yates and Kloves, I think they both have done some things really well, and others really not. Hopefully they will have learned from the past and be able to make some changes for the better with the next two.
As for where they will cut it, my bet is right after Dobby’s burial. Harry looking solemnly out to sea, Ron and Hermione walking up behind him ready for the next phase, something like that. I think they can fit all of the book prior to that scene into a 2 1/2 to 3 hour movie pretty well, but the second half with Gringotts, the battle, Snape’s parts, the walk into the forest, all of that… its going to need every second they can give it, that is non-stop. They could start the second film with them Apparating to the Leaky Cauldron or walking into Gringotts, the movie only people would not know what in the world was happening with Harry under the Invisibility Cloak walking next to Bellatrix! I CANNOT WAIT to see this movie!
“I hate this idea. The actors will be too old for their parts by then!”
from the news post:
“—The movies are to be filmed at the same time—, and will be released several months apart, with Part One due November 2010, and Part Two, May 2011.”
I dunno why it lined the part out I was intending to highlight, but it draws attention to it regardless…
Woohoo!!! Prayers answered!! Oh, and I love Heyman, the way he talks about it, he’s really into the thing! The only thing I don’t like about this is, no, not how far apart the two parts will be, but how far apart HBP and DH Pt I will be. Two whole years, I can’t wait that long!!! But hey, if that’s what it takes to make a great movie (two, actually) it’s fine by me.
Actually, in regards to my post I just posted that will hopefully be right above this. There could just be the scene when Ron walks into the tent, and Hermione looks at him with a mixture of anger and whatever else. Then Ron will give the most Larry David-ish look he can muster, followed by the main theme of Curb Your Enthusiasm of course. By the way these aren’t serious obviously, I just think it would be a hilarious thought of the first part ending on some awkward note.