‘Deathly Hallows’ Will Be Different To Previous ‘Harry Potter’ Films
'Harry Potter' stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint
Director David Yates has confirmed roughly 85% of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 has been shot and roughly 10% of Part 2.
Yates also confirmed that both Deathly Hallows movies will be very different than any of the preceding Harry Potter films, including the soon to be released sixth movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
“The first [Deathly Hallows] movie is a road movie basically, and it’s quite intense and very raw and we’re way away from Hogwarts, and it’s a bit like three refugees being pursued across the landscape by these terrible Death Eaters,” Yates said. “We’re really enjoying it actually. It feels very different. What’s hard about coming back to Half-Blood Prince is we finished it about a year ago or less. It’s weird coming back. The first one is very verité and documentary and edgy and on the road, and the second part is a big opera basically, a great big epic with huge battles and very oddly moving, because it concludes the whole saga really. So they’re two very different films.”
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliff adds, “‘I’m so excited about the seventh film. I don’t know if anybody else had the same experience as me over the last couple of days, but seeing the sixth film again, it does suddenly strike me that we are doing something very, very different with the 7th film.”
Emma Watson agrees. “It’s not very often that in the middle of the filmmaking process, you stop yourself and go ‘This is going to be awesome’ and I’ve done that on a number of occasions,” she said. “We’ve just done this amazing scene in the forest where we’re getting chased by the Snatchers, and I’ve never done anything like it, nothing even close. I’ve never really done any serious stunts or any real action, and it’s so exciting and just really dynamic. Because all of us are now finished with school and we’re all just totally focused on this finale. It’s out of Hogwarts, it’s just about the three of us. It’s going to be… well, I hope it’s going to be brilliant and it feels totally different. I feel like I’m on a different film. The other films have this structure: You know, we come into the Great Hall and there’s the opening talk and that’s just gone, it’s gone.”
Harry Potter and the Death Hallows Pt 1 will be released November 19, 2010.
Harry Potter and the Death Hallows Pt 2 will be released July 15 ,2011.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be released this week on July 15.
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July 12th, 2009 at 1:16 am
I think that it was a smart move for them to decide to make Deathly Hallows a two-part movie. As a huge fan of the novels, I felt that GoF and OotP were a bit of a disappointment compared to the novels because so much of the stories were edited out due to time constraints. DH is an fantastic book that covered so much ground that the only practical thing to do would be to do a two-part film. The reveals alone were absolutely astounding!
Especially in the last four chapters; everything that I though I knew (or at least had formed my own opinions) about in regards to certain main characters and what their actual motivations were throughout the series was shown in a totally different light. J.K. Rowling’s brilliant approach in allowing her readers to view things from a different perspective completely turned me upside down and pleasantly surprised me with how she chose to end the series. It was a sheer stroke of genius on her part, at least in my opinion.
Hopefully the films will really do the novel the justice it deserves, as both an in-depth look at all of the amazing plot twists and turns and also as an “on the edge of your seat” entertainment venue as the novel was for me while I was reading DH. I am really looking forward for when the final two films come it because I definitely have a feeling that the film versions are going to be as amazing as the actual novel.
July 12th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
It’s a Harry Potter weekend on ABC Family. I am compelled to watch the movies again and again. The new Half Blood Prince should be half of good as the previous movies. Check out my first and recently released novel, Long Journey to Rneadal. This exciting tale is a romantic action adventure in space and is more about the characters than the technology.