Confirmed: Harry Potter DH is part 1 and 2!!

[Onlyne]

Story highlights (Digg this story!):
- Part 1 to be released November 2010, Part 2 May 2011.
- JK Rowling was "cool" with the idea, according to Heyman.
- Warner Brothers to make official announcement tomorrow at ShoWest.

It's official! The LA Times has confirmed that Deathly Hallows will be split into two films AND will be directed by OOTP and HBP director David Yates. Read the full article HERE. Quotage from the article:

Producer David Heyman said the decision was made with some anxiety and only after considerable deliberations. The producer joked that "while my wife and Warner Brothers were pleased" to hear that the Potter movie magic will continue into the next decade, he himself fretted that the cynical observers would see the decision as a purely mercenary move.

"I swear to you it was born out of purely creative reasons," 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."

Heyman said he approached Rowling with some trepidation about the strategy but found that she signed off on its logic rather quickly. "I went to Jo and she was cool with it," Heyman said, "and that was quite a relief."

[ninpuu_ran31]

Ooooh.. Dear Lord... Part one and two.. *whistle* This'll be looooong..

[Red Mystic Ranger]

Incorrect.
You CANNOT cut S.P.E.W. out of the sixth movie!
Thanks for screwing up, Warner Bros.! ;)
Well I'm glad they're not leaving anything out of the last movie(s?). I always knew it would be made in 2 parts.

[Legendary.]

Funny thing is, it's gonna be a successful movie making it an actual succesful movie franchise that goes beyond a trilogy for our time atleast.

[ninpuu_ran31]

With all the stuff that happens in the seventh book, you really can't afford to leave anything out.. With the other six books, you could compare the subplots to extracurricular activites... You don't need to include them sometimes, and it saves time if you don't.

I really wonder though how they'll film everything.. In the first six, the settings were all at school and there wasn't much of a variance in the main setting of the story. With the seventh book, everyone goes all over the place..

[Joker]

With all the stuff that happens in the seventh book, you really can't afford to leave anything out.. With the other six books, you could compare the subplots to extracurricular activites... You don't need to include them sometimes, and it saves time if you don't.

I really wonder though how they'll film everything.. In the first six, the settings were all at school and there wasn't much of a variance in the main setting of the story. With the seventh book, everyone goes all over the place..

But they will...they're bound to. It is inevitable. If they really felt that way about the seventh book they should have felt that way about the others! THIS IS TOTAL BULL! SHORT AND SIMPLE!

A way to make money which is just so screwed up. I swear to the heavens both movies had better be two hours long or else I'm going to write some serious hate mail.

[ninpuu_ran31]

I think each movie should be three hours at the very least. Or three hours in the first and two in the second at least. How many pages were in the seventh book?

[Dino~Thunder]

I'm glad they are separating them, that just means they can keep more things in the movies. I'm really excited for these two films ^_^ I wonder where they will end the first one though...and where they will start the second one.

[Joker]

I'm glad they are separating them, that just means they can keep more things in the movies. I'm really excited for these two films ^_^ I wonder where they will end the first one though...and where they will start the second one.

They'll likely end it with Ron running off and leaving...*shrugs* there aint no telling. *sighs* I'm really just feeling like screaming.

[DaiRed]

Ugh. Why can't they just make it one longass movie?

[ninpuu_ran31]

Too much money to spend on one film... Besides, I don't think people want to go into a movie theater at 12:00am and come out of the theaters at 5:30am...

[Onlyne]

They'll likely end it with Ron running off and leaving...*shrugs* there aint no telling. *sighs* I'm really just feeling like screaming.

Whats so bad about it dude? Now we can have the more of the book in the movie without cutting very much of it. It will say Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and then later Part 2, so if you're thinking people will go see Part 1 and be like "Oh there's a part 2? screw that!" That wont happen because we know how popular the movie is and how exciting they are so yeah, people will want to see the next one. The movies will also leak into the next decade as well as come out all on the same DVD.

But yeah I think they'll end it at the scene at Malfoy's Mansion, since thats one of them most intense scenes of the book. Even though it is split, I dont think its enough for a 2 hour long movie, so I'm sure they're gonna feel it with alot of original scenes which should be pretty good as they've always been.

[GoldPhoenixRanger]

I think our dear Mr. Heyman has forgotten one small detail regarding cutting out subplots

*Deathly Hallows Spoilers* (just in case anyone hasn't read it yet)




In DH, the whole reason for the first kiss between Ron and Hermione was because he showed he cared about the house elves by saying that they couldn't be ordered to die for the wizards!! Without the SPEW storyline to back it up, there is absolutey no reason for Hermione to kiss Ron!!!! Am I the only one that's noticed this!?!?!?!?!

-GPR

[ninpuu_ran31]

Well I think they can include that tidbit in there about Hermione's thoughts or the house-elves.. but they might do this without S.P.E.W...

I mean, creating the house-elves and making effects for them already takes a lot of time and quite a bit of money. The movie would only be delayed further if they took all that time to create a scene where Hermione pitied the house-elves and saw what they were doing. This was the reason why Winky wasn't included in the fourth movie in the first place.

I do sympathize.. But if you were working on the movie, you'd have to consider the costs and the time that you're given to finish up the film..

[ForeverBlue]

This is really cool news they are splitting the 7th movie into two. They don't want to leave anything out.

Daired: if it was just all in one movie...it would take too long, probably close to at least 4 hours long...would cause too much strain in the eyes that way (even make your eyes go red that is). Also too much money to do that like ninpuu said. Yes, there was movies that was just over 3 hours such as Titanic & King Kong was as that is just an extra hour for those kinda movies...it wouldn't bother peoples' eyes that much but 4 hours long for a movie, too much money and hard on the eyes that way

[Onlyne]

I think our dear Mr. Heyman has forgotten one small detail regarding cutting out subplots

*Deathly Hallows Spoilers* (just in case anyone hasn't read it yet)




In DH, the whole reason for the first kiss between Ron and Hermione was because he showed he cared about the house elves by saying that they couldn't be ordered to die for the wizards!! Without the SPEW storyline to back it up, there is absolutey no reason for Hermione to kiss Ron!!!! Am I the only one that's noticed this!?!?!?!?!

-GPR

Yeah I noticed too. But they will probably substitute it for another reason why she would kiss him. You may remember that they are still not introducing Bill Weasley as well as his marriage to Fleur Delacour who isnt coming back for the movie. No wedding means no....alot of things. So they will probably substitute that with Lupin and Tonks' marriage.

[Kryptonian]

I'm glad it's being cut into two parts, it means that it wont all be packed into one movie, which means that corners won't be cut.

[Titanium Ranger]

They're cutting this into two parts? I'm happy to hear that but what about the Order of the Phoenix? The thickest book in the HP series? It seriously needed to be split into two parts... there were moments (like the Hogsmeade visit) where there was no pre-explanation of sorts. One second they're deciding if they should form the DA, next they're already in the pub.

At least that book deserved a two-parter but it's understandable for the Deathly Hallows. Yet I again seem to doubt it was entirely for the sake of keeping important material.

[MMM]

Yeah, the Order.. also needed to be partitioned.

[Chromium Ranger]

Yeah, but as David Yates said, there are some parts to the other books that can be cut out to save money and time, but JK Rowling is so brilliant that if you cut out even a tiny bit of the 7th book, the entire thing will be screwed up. As for where they'll split the movie, I honestly have no idea. I don't think they'll go as far as the Malfoy Mansion scene, but I do like Joker's idea of the part where Ron runs off, seeing how maybe half of the people who watch the movies don't read the books, they'd be left with a cliffhanger while the rest of us just wait to see the rest of the movie.

[Titanium Ranger]

Unless I'm forgetting something, that would pretty much go against the reason why the movies were split up in the first place. At first, Harry's just preparing to go off. Mrs. Weasley tries to put it off for a while. There have been one or two Voldemort appearances but then they depart to find the Horcruxes. They're just travelling around (I'm assuming they'll skip a couple of days in a matter of a minute with that). Then the fight happens and Ron leaves. The main plot hasn't even started yet! Harry doesn't even have a clue to the first Horcrux, neither would he have Gryffindor's sword and the only cliffhanger would be that Harry has to continue alone with Hermione on the journey. It might be cool to see it ending that way but there would be barely anything new to the plot for the first part, since the audience would already have been introduced to the notion of the Horcruxes in Movie 6....

[Chromium Ranger]

Actually I think you've got your events out of order. From what I remember:

*Spoilers*







They have the entire thing at the Burrow, the wedding, Harry's birthday, etc. Then they go to that place in Muggle London (don't know if they'll include that) and go to Grimmauld Place. He finds his mum's letter, gets into the fight with Lupin, and find out what happened to the real locket. Then they go to the Ministry and steal it, have the daring escape, and then they start traveling around. So they have the first Horcrux, just no way to destroy it. I suppose it would be a pretty bad place to split though.

[Titanium Ranger]

That's true. My bad I guess...