Woo-hoo!! According to the Los Angeles Times, it’s official . JK Rowling has given her blessing to split the final book into two movies, as they didn’t want to cut anything.
They didn’t want to cut anything.
Including income potential.
-FrL-
Ugh. And David Yates is going to direct it. Double ugh.
Joy, the directer of the only Harry Potter film I did not enjoy. I wonder why he got the assignment.
Because he increased the profits from Goblet of Fire to Order of the Phoenix.
Actually, my wife and I rather like Order of the Phoenix, but I’ll agree he’s not my favorite director.
Im glad they decided to turn it into 2 movies. I enjoyed OotP and GoF but they cut out a lot things I thought were important to the story.
So what do you think that the cutoff point will be? Shell Cottage? That seems to be about the only natural breaking point to me.
I agree. Good break, allow the first half to end on an upbeat note.
Hmmm…well, I guess it’s good. Still wish they had done it with Goblet if they did it with any. HPatDH is long, all right, but it’s a whole lot of pages which really boil down to, “…and they hid. And they hid some more. And…they hid.” On screen, that can be dispatched rather quickly without loss, unlike all the lovely details left out of every other HP adaptation.
Wait… what?! Of any of the books from four onward, DH is probably the only one that could survive as one film. They hack four and five to hell but leave six intact? :mad:
And I want Alfonso Curon back!
I’m done now.
Kill Voldemort, Vol. I
Kill Voldemort, Vol. II
No spoilers pleez.
(Yes, I’m kidding)
I agree with all of the above. (Except I think she means “leave seven intact?”)
“What’s wrong with David Yates?” my Potter-crazy girlfriend asks. She also agreed with you, NajaNivea.
That. Can I still keep my HP Geek gold card?
Possibly nothing. But I found his treatment of Order of the Phoenix to be disappointing, compared to the two Directors who had come before him (Alfonso Cuaron and Mike Newell).
Before OOTP came out he was praised as really understanding how to direct teenagers realistically, but there was precious little evidence of any particularly astonishing success there - it seemed fairly methodical and uninspiring work in that department.
I have read the book several times and had trouble following the movie in a few places because they left out so much. It’s the Director and Writer’s job to cover the gaps so that they don’t feel like they’re missing, but this one really felt empty in places.
Plus, no other Director has had the chance to film three of the HP stories, and yet this guy gets the gig despite not really proving himself (to me) as being worthy. Quite disappointed.
Well, count me as one who loved what David Yates did with OotP. I thought it was head and shoulders above the other films. He kept enough to get all the plot points in, still drive with characters, and above all, it was enjoyable!
I’m very glad he’s directing the rest of them.
I stopped watching at GoF, which was a disaster of a movie. if I hadn’t read the books I couldn’t have followed the plot mroe than ten minutes in.
I have to admit, I think this is going to be a disaster. Dh was a very, very thin book padded with extraneous plots and scenes and a lot opf stuff which made no sense. Cutting out large chunks of it would be an admirably excellent thing!
Not wise. By they time they have to film the last film, the cast will be 30something.
OotP is my favorite of the five (I’ve watched it about 7 times so far), so I’m cool with it. Sure, there are things I wish they’d left in, but there’s a great deal more that I’m quite happy wasn’t there.
For my money, Goblet of Fire was the worst, being turned into nothing more than a Triwizard Tournament movie and having lost far too much of even that in the translation.
I recently reread the last two books while nailed to the couch with the flu over a weekend, and I think Half-blood Prince is the weakest book and probably won’t thrill me as a movie.