Well, the rumors have turned true as the Los Angeles Times has announced that Warner Bros. and the producers of the massively successful Harry Potter movies will announce Thursday that they plan to split Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling's seventh and final "Potter" novel, into two blockbuster films — one to be released in November 2010 and the second in May 2011.

Word is that they won't get fancy with the titles simply making them Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II. On top of this news you can chalk up David Yates as the director for both installments as they will be filmed as one movie, only broken into two. This will mark Yates' third, er, fourth directorial outing in the Potter world as he recently helmed Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and is currently finishing up Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for a November 21 release.

Finally, Steve Kloves is back to pen the final chapter(s), after he penned all but Order of the Phoenix, which was written by Michael Goldenberg.

"I think it's the only way you can do it without cutting out a huge portion of the book," star Daniel Radcliffe said recently during a break on the set of Half-Blood Prince when rumors first began. "There have been compartmentalized subplots in the other books that have made them easier to cut — although those cuts were still to the horror of some fans — but the seventh book doesn't really have any subplots. It's one driving, pounding story from the word go."

"I swear to you it was born out of purely creative reasons," producer David Heyman said during an interview in a converted airplane factory outside London that has been home base to all of the "Potter" productions. "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."

Apparently J.K. Rowling is also on board with the idea. To read the complete article click here.

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