Hey Ravenclawed: I totaly agree, i wish Cuaron would direct DH it was by far the best HP movie in my opinion. Miles better then the others. It was dark, funny, original, creative and highly accurate. And the characters were bang on in POA. I am quite dissapointed that Yates is directing DH and steve kloves is doing the sceenplay. Oh well, lets just keep our fingers crossed that the next 3 films are better the OOTP eh? Perhaps Yates and/or Kloves will have improved as a movie maker. I read the leaked script for HBP, (the extra scene) and I have to admit, it sounded really good. Is there hope for Yates yet? We’ll have to wait and see.
I really like the idea of them splitting it with harry opening the door to reveal.. fade to black.. it’s perfect. We all know what he chose and obviously, the right choice, but non-reading HP fans would be surprised. And i know several, which surprises me. They don’t read the books, but they love the movies. I keep trying to get them to read, but they don’t… i think one of them does it just to annoy me. hehe
The only problem I can see with that scenario is it might be too subtle for your average movie goer. And WB is gonna want to cater to that average movie goer. I know we all love this idea of getting the 2 films just because “OMG, more content” and so on and so forth. I’m jumping up and down, almost giddy… and i’m in my 40’s. hehe But as has been pointed out, yes, they ‘say’ it’s for creative license, but i think we’re all aware that WB sees the big picture and they don’t want to see the end of the “cash cow”, so we have to be truthful with ourselves and admit, at least in part, that this decision was monetarily based. Now, don’t eat me, i said in part and Mr. Heyman said it was creative, and Lord knows, he’s one that’s very dedicated to getting this series on screen. I had a point when i started this post… oh yeah, i think the split will come at ron destroying the locket, because it’s almost exactly half way through and leaves lots of content for movie 2.
As i said before, i’m thrilled because it gives the opportunity for them to do justice to “the Prince’s tale” and omg, isn’t Rickman gonna shine in those?
“I hope the same actor plays Olivander. We do not see that actor often enough. May be he prefers theatre. We do not even see him on British Television”.
Posted by Serge Gingras on March 12, 2008 @ 06:58 PM
If you like John Hurt, have you seen I Claudius, in which he plays Caligula? The whole series is superb (1970s I think). I have it on dvd and John Hurt is the one, besides the brilliant Derek Jacobi, whose performance stands out (if that’s possible since everyone was brilliant in it).
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!:D:D:D:D:D I AM HAVING HAPPY MOMENTS NOW!!!!! I AM GOING INTO THE HARRY POTTER FEVER AGAIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNN!!!!:D:D:D PLZZZZZ GOD MAKE THIS FRANCHISE END WELL!!!!:D:D:D I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!
Oh my God…. these people are seriously retarded. FIRST big mistake: Hiring Yates to do the last film. SECOND biggest mistake: Thinking non-book fans are going to go along with it. Tsl, Tsk. Such a shame.
Two films better than one. Three would be even better. Pity they didn’t do that with the earlier longer books. A lot of fun stuff was cut in GoF and OotP.
And think of all that extra money we can now donate to poor impoverished WB!
I was worried that Deathly Hallows will be destroed in the movie because it is very little time the 2 hours.But now…...it’s great. I really want it. WOW!!!
Why David Yates? He’ll never do justice to Draco’s, Harry’s (In wich Harry finally manages to cut and flatten his hair), and Hermione’s hair (I know things about Bagman than can make your hair curl, not that you- wait, your hair is straight, now. It actually does need curling), the robes (Three sets of plain black- no, black and maroon robes), and Colin’s indentity theft! He’ll make Deathly Hallows a romantic comedy, and will probably have Fred do something stupid, leading to his death, while in the book, he goes down fighting. I know who should do this- CHRIS COLUMBUS! Then we can have trueness to the book, black robes, curly hair, Colin, and noble sacrifices!
Control thy mouse, sir!!! Else we shall all have to use expelliarmus on thee. hehe
Just when you thought that Hollywood couldn’t find a way to fleece us more…forget “being true to the book” because as noted, they could’ve done the same, or made the movie longer, for GOF and OOTP. It worked for LOTR and people went to that in droves, and then they released each movie with another hour of footage! At least tell me they aren’t going to try and really rob us blind and will release DH as a single movie on DVD.
As for a cut point, who says you can’t cut a movie at a dark point? Um, Empire Strikes Back, anyone? It can work if it’s done right. So cut it right after Harry buries Dobby, with the others coming out and looking into the sunset and steeling themselves for the finale. JKR took so many plot points from Star Wars anyway, so why not? Oh wait, it’s Harry Potter…they couldn’t even end OOTP on a down note in the movie, they had to have that little “we have each other” speech by Harry at the end.
I also saw on MSNBC that Dan confirmed HBP will be a romantic comedy, saying it was the funniest one he’s done. You know, comedy after seriousness can work…look at Star Trek 2-3 (dark) and 4 (funny). But they santized OOTP so much, it wasn’t as dark as it could’ve been. Real answer: HBP has not much going on until the end. Why not make the sixth movie HBP and DH part 1 combined instead, and cut out most of the pensieve stuff? I’d say cut out the H/G stuff as well, since Ginny’s been almost inconsequential in the movies, but I’m sure this board would cry foul.
You know we’ll all see it/buy it/etc anyway, but this is really dumb I think. Get Peter Jackson to direct DH, he knows how to make a GOOD three hour movie…three of them even! At the same time!
LOL UltimatePotterFan! No wonder there are so many comments on this news item!
re the epilogue, personally I think it’s cheesy and doesn’t sit well with the rest of the book so I really won’t care if it is cut (I purposely never re.read the epilogue). I can tell Jo wrote it ages before the rest of the book. Did she write it when she did book 1?, because the older H/R/Hr seem so cardboard and unreal compared to books 2-7, it’s as though the trio have somehow developed lives of their own outside of the books and Jo’s epilogue didn’t capture that.
Sooo.. as it is cheesy, Kloves will definitely keep it in!
Lol, liliana
I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy about this. Someone’s gonna have to hit me over the head with a shovel to get me to stop talking about this today. It’s gonna be kinda hard to wait for that juicy Hermione/Ron kiss scene in the second movie but…... I think I can handle it. Cuaron would be better I think, but Yates was my second choice. Props to him for being able to handle so much. THANKS FOR POSTING THIS LEAKY!!!
Hurray! I really like the decision to split it into two movies! But I’d rather have Alfonso Cauron back, o well… I’m so excited!