Where Exactly Will 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' be Split?
And what's Radcliffe think of that epilogue situation?
I like Matrix Reloaded despite all of its flaws, but one thing I always disliked was the awful cliffhanger ending. It made the film feel entirely incomplete and I'm not sure if it was the fact I knew Matrix Revolutions was just around the corner or what exactly, but the idea of a cliffhanger ending to a movie is a rather cheap trick leaving the audience with an unfulfilled movie experience. So, when I read a new article at Empire magazine in which Daniel Radcliffe says the split breaking up part one and part two of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is "at a very tense cliffhanger" I don't exactly know what to think about that especially since we have pretty much the exact same situation we had with the final two parts in the Matrix trilogy.
Harry Potter franchise producer David Heyman added some words saying, "We've played around with a couple of places and ultimately settled on a place that we think is very exciting, and I think quite bold, in that it's not necessarily where one might expect. You want to give a sense of completion, on one hand, but a sense that there's another piece, more to come. We tried one and then Steve (Kloves, screenwriter) came up with the idea to try it another way and when we tried that, it felt just right."
I hope Heyman's statement saying the wanted to give a "sense of completion" isn't too far off base because I think that's very important. As much as the split on Deathly Hallows seems like a money grab, I am interested in seeing how they handle what will pretty much be the first Harry Potter film adaptation that can really be explored in its entirety without the complications of running time.
Where they will split it I have no idea. I read the book, but don't remember it well enough to think of a great spot.
As for the recent news revealed to MTV saying the epilogue at the end of Rowling's "Deathly Hallows" will be included and CG will be used to age the current actors Daniel Radcliffe had this to add:
I am nervous about that because if it's good I'll be really, really pleased; if it's not good and that's what people are left with, that would be awful. If it's a choice between having me, Rupert and Emma looking a bit stupid and it being slightly comical or having other actors play us, I would go for other actors every time. So, we'll see.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I hits theaters on November 19, 2010 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II follows on July 15, 2011.
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Have to start with the information that I am not a Harry Potter film fan. I think the trio of actors playing the leads all put in poor overbaked performances. You'd think the producers would invest in some acting lessons for them out of the profits but I guess it's a case of good enough is good enough.
But I must say that Daniel Radcliffe comes off as intelligent and professional in his remarks. I've been of two minds about the last Harry Potter films ever since I heard the last book would be two films. I don't think it has two films in it, but definitely too much for one. Willl they develop the sub plots this time? Well, if not, they've run out of excuses.
I would've preferred Alfonso Cuaron at the helm of Deathly Hallows. Imho, Prisoner of Azkaban was the best film of the series by far.
David Yates WILL royally rape, maim and barf out the worst possible movie versions of Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows.
Someone throw a cruciactus curse on him already for ruining the series. Alfonso Cuaron should be back in the director's seat ASAP.
It wasn't his direction that ruined the series in 5, it was a non-Steve Kloves script, which has been remedied for 6/7/8.
The script was really week in 5, but the direction wasn't horrible. I agree that Cuaron did the best directing job, and Mike Newell was great too, but I don't think Yates will do a bad job.
Cuaron was the best by far. But at least Yates has a VERY nice taste with art direction, and I did prefer his direction to Mike Newell's and Chris Colombus's.
I am a big Harry Potter fan, but I must say two things:
1) I never thought the split was necessary. It could have been done in one film.
2) Whether two films or just one, the epilogue is most DEFINITELY not necessary! If making DH two films is sort of unnecessary, including the epilogue is beyond gratuitous! Wait, no, the epilogue is beyond gratuitous in any sense. It was beyond gratuitous in the book; it was obvious Rowling only included it as a protection against being pressured to do a sequel. Absolutely nothing happened in the epilogue, and it added nothing to the ending at all. In fact, the book would have ended far better without that little epilogue. The last chapter was so great, and the ending so final and complete, and then she had to go and, as one of my fellow Potter-fan friends put it, "throw some sh!t together!" I wish they'd just cut it altogether.
@ash:
Royally rape and maim and barf out the worst possible movie version? Are you sure you're not referring to Michael Bay lol? Anyway, I do echo what the earlier posts say. Cuaron would've been the man for me as well for Deathly Hallows. I actually read a while back that JK Rowling herslelf said that Azkaban was her fave of all the Potter Films thus far.
Word to JM about the unnecessary AND unimaginative epilogue. If she had to write it, she should've made it action-packed with a glimpse into grown-up Harry's life as an Auror. I guess she wanted the series to come full circle with his son boarding the train at 9 & 3/4 for the very first time. Whatever.
I'm one of the few who supports the book being divided into two parts though. DH was my favorite book of the series and I'm happy to know that we'll be able to see as many side plotlines on the big screen as possible(Previous movies, especially 'Chamber of Secrets', suffered because they excluded so much from what was in the book).
I have a theory that the first movie ends with Harry and his friends captured and taken to Malfoy Manor, or maybe when they just escape the manor seconds before Voldemort's arrival. Whatever the cliffhanger is, I don't expect it to be as frustrating for viewers as the Matrix films, primarily because a huge majority of those going to watch it already know what is in store for them in the concluding film.
I have loved all the Harry Potter movies and the actors who play the parts. I think they are all very good. I would have liked to see more the books in the movies, but I am looking forward to the final movie even if it is split and I must wait for the 2nd half if it means having more of the book included. I love the epilog at the end. It lets you know what happened after the war. I too would have liked something on what each one was doing by then, what jobs each held. All in all I still enjoy reading the series which I do before each movie comes out. They are great books and are a good lesson in good and evil
I too have loved all the Harry Potter books and the movies. I also think the actors are fabulous and have done their parts well. My only complaint is the wait to see the movies. They are already completed so why do we have to wait almost a year to see it? They made us wait to see the Half-Blood Prince and I was very disappointed with the delay. If they really want to please their audience, they would make the movie available when it is complete not when they think they'll make the most money. They haven't had one yet that did not gross extremely well, so what's the deal about putting it off? It only gives me more time to read and re-read the book so I can more eaily tell where they don't follow the book in the movie!
IVE GOT TI! i bet itll split when (spoliter alert) harry is being drowned by the locket in the freezing lake! cus thats a tense moment
for all your information they should have kept john williams to do the music for every film. i dont care if they adapted hedwigs theme because it sound really bad as the films go along. I also think that the director for 3 was the best but also with the first director, the guy who did the first 2 films. i think that as the series went along, the series got more commercial and the script got worse and i feel that they tried alot to make that up with their fail graphics EAT SLUGS MALFOY