I hate this idea. The actors will be too old for their parts by then!
They won’t be or look too old. There’s make up and techniques to make em LOOK younger. And they can never BE too old as that will (hopefully) give them more experience and maturity to play their parts better and better. (Not that they need more experience and maturity)
Yesss! Hopefully this means no more crazy plot removals! It’d be great to see everything tied up right!
No, no no. I don’t like the idea. And I really wanted Cuaron back for the seventh movie. And 6 moths apart!! They’re going to be filmed at the same time… Why 6 months?? Why not 3?? Well.. I hope it’s really worth it… 2011 sigh Yates again.. sigh
They’ll be filmed at the same time, yet released six months apart so the films don’t compete with one another. It’s rather absurd to release two parts of the same series at the same time….
I am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!! Forget anyone who’s says they may have done it for monetary reasons!!!! I would have liked two-part movies with all the subplots included!!!!! :) I can’t wait!
WB want to squeze every last dollar out of this franchise obviously. Why will it take until 2010 for this to be released?
this is really cool and everything but by the time both of these come out i’ll be a senior in high school. not that that will stop me and my friends from going but it’s a long time to wait. i’m only a freshman right now =[
@luna
Many reasons. For one thing, HBP doesn’t even release till the END of 2008… then, of course, the actors have two films to shoot for, even if it is simultaneous, that takes a LOT of time. Then there’s editing, publicity, the première, and all that jazz. It all make sense when one thinks about it.
I’m not sure I like the idea of the Deathly Hallows film being in two parts or those two parts being six months apart when they are going to be filmed together. I have nothing against the films, Yates as director or Kloves as screenwriter but of all the books that could and maybe should have been split into two parts (GoF and OotP come to mind) I never thought DH should be. The book spends way to much time in statis and it seems to drag in places (for example: the trio camping but nothing significant happening. I felt a little bit like Ron did about it.) This was the one book I felt could be condensed into a decent three hour film. I suppose I’m in the minority here.
In any case, I hope the first part doesn’t spend the majority of the time with the Trio camping when that’s a part I think could be condensed and that every important plot point is present in the two films since that is reasoning behind them making it two films to begin with. Otherwise they may as well have condensed it into one film.
They’ll be filming next year, which is approximately a year after HBP finiahes filming, so the actors won’t look that old comparatively. They’ll be 20 or 21 and playing 17 year olds. I have seen much worse age gaps done perfectly well. I also think the 6 month slot gives them time to really sort out movie 1 in postproduction and gives them time after that to do justice to movie 2. It makes perfect sense to me. And while a 2 year wait after HBP is a bit frustrating, I’m perfectly happy with that since that gives us the best bet for a polished well made movie :D
Still squeeing with major excitement!!! Love Yates! So happy I’m incoherent!!
Are you kidding me?...I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised…more money, right?
What a horrible decision to make an overstuffed, meandering book into two overstuffed, meandering movie.
Well, the bad reviews will come pouring in.
The only place to cut the film is The Silver Doe chapter. That is the middle of the story. The second film should begin with Ron’s return.
@Corey
The only “Overstuffness” in DH is the whole Gringotts scene and what leads to it. Splitting DH is a very wise plan, and not just for money.
I don’t like this team and I was hoping that they’d get off the horse and give some other directors/writers a crack at it because I think it would be more interesting if the movies were all directed by different people. But Hollywood loves a formula, they have a moneymaker and they need to strike while the iron is hot because if they don’t close the deal now, the interest in finishing the series (now that the books are done) will steadily wane.
But I don’t see what’s so great about them that they get to make 3 of the movies especially the way they leave things out, rush, ignore important characters in favor of boring amounts of screen time for characters such as Dumbledore (in books where he barely appears) and Umbridge and writing out Dobby, Fleur, the Malfoys, the Gaunts, etc. and writing in superfluous characters and scenes they made up.
Oh well, this is just a visual exercise now. Nobody’s going to be searching for clues to the outcome cause we already know what happens.