Following the official announcement of the Deathly Hallows split, Harry Potter producer David Heyman has commented on this matter in an interview with Empire Online.
In this interview we also get a hint about when will shooting begin for the two installments of Book 7.
Here are a few quotes from the article:
So these films will be the same length as the ones that came before? We won’t see two films that clock in under two hours?
No. The idea is to get everything people want in there. I’m sure there’ll be parts that don’t make it, which we won’t know until the script is written. But that is the idea.
What do you think is the natural separation point in the books? Where can you end the first film in a satisfying way?
It depends what feeling you want [to end on]. I don’t want to answer that just yet because we don’t have the first script. We do have a point roughly where we want to end, but we haven’t got a draft to know if that works yet.
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And when do you expect to start shooting Deathly Hallows?
Early next year. Most of 2009 will be filming. We’ll be anticipating shooting in February. We’re all really excited about the possibilities and the challenges of seven. It’s going to be a cracker.
Steve Kloves, the screenwriter for the first four Harry Potter movie sent an email to The Baltimore Sun sharing his thoughts on the recently confirmed split of the last Harry Potter movie - Deathly Hallows.
"Years ago," he writes, "we briefly — and seriously — considered doing Goblet of Fire as two films. So this concept is not altogether new. As for Deathly Hallows, I intuited — almost from the first moments I began reading it and certainly once I’d finished — that to realize the story in a single film was going to be a tall order. Others in 'the group' felt similarly. So the idea of two films began to get kicked around as early as late summer of 2007. We didn’t take it lightly. But ultimately everyone felt that despite the challenges it would present, it was the most sound creative decision. I’m sure some will think we’re crazy. My wife looked at me cross-eyed when I first mentioned it. But I’m really excited about it because it should allow us to stretch a bit with the characters and give them the proper send-off. The story is highly emotional and those moments deserve time to breathe. And, personally, I feel we owe it to Jo — in order to preserve the integrity of the work — and the fans — for their loyalty all these years — to give them the best and most complete experience possible. I’d love to do it in three parts!"
CONFIRMED: The Deathly Hallows movie will be split in two parts
"Unlike every other book, you cannot remove elements of this book [...] You can remove scenes of Ron playing Quidditch from the fifth book, and you can remove Hermione and S.P.E.W. [Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare] and those subplots . . . but with the seventh, that can't be done."
These were the words of producer David Heyman. It is official. Warner Bros. has confirmed that the 7th Harry Potter movie will be split into two parts. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I" will hit theaters in November 2010, followed by "Part II" in May 2011. JK Rowling seems to agree with the idea.
An exciting and lengthy interview with the Harry Potter author appeared in the the Edinburgh newspaper "Student" this month. In the interview, JK Rowling talks about the past 17 years of her life in which she shared her world with one the greatest fictional characters of all time - Harry Potter. She discusses subjects such as the religious opposition to the Harry Potter series, her depression after writing the last page of the Deathly Hallows, Dumbledore's sexuality and the religious opposition to her books.
Here's the official description of this documentary: With unprecedented access, cameras follow author JK Rowling in the year that she completes her publishing phenomenon, the Harry Potter series. The programme captures her return to the sources of her inspiration, and she reveals what she is planning on writing next.
A week before the scheduled broadcast of ITV's Documentary on her, the Harry Potter author had visited her old flat in Edinburgh, Scotland for the first time in ten years.
When she entered the room she said:
"This is really the room where I finished Philosopher's Stone, here. This is really where I turned my life around completely. My life really changed in this flat."
"I feel I really became myself here, in that everything was stripped away, I'd made such a mess of things. But that was freeing, so I just thought, 'Well, I want to write,' and I wrote the book and, 'What is the worst that can happen? It gets turned down by every publisher in Britain, big deal. It's really back to the wall time here'."
The first official high-resolution picture from the sixth Harry Potter installment Half-Blood Prince was released a while ago by Warner Bros. The promotional shot features Harry Potter holding the Marauder's Map and, most likely, the Prince's Potions book.
Biography Channel airs documentary on Harry Potter
A one-hour-long program featuring the Harry Potter trio, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson was aired on the 19th of December 2007 by A&E's Biography Channel.
A full video of the program is now available in six parts on YouTube (published by Veritaserum). "Read More" to watch it.
The Harry Potter series will lighten up on the darkness and turn into a romantic comedy for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
That is the word on set at Leavesden Studios, where the Potter team has established its own world, and its permanent sets, for the 10 year long production of all seven movies.
Emma Watson, who plays Hermione Granger, and Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley, are delighted about the comic touch on Half-Blood Prince.
Daniel Radcliffe, as Harry Potter himself, is not as keen. Instead, he is eager to skip to the dark finale, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, due in 2010.
The creator of the famous boy wizard was confronted yesterday by christian fundamentalists in front of her children. The mother-of-three was shopping in a toy store with jessica, 14, david, four and Makenzie, two, when the american zeolot approched her. Read more
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