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Last 'Harry Potter' Book Becomes 2 Films
Hollywood Reporter via Reuters ^ | March 12, 2008 | Borys Kit

Posted on 03/12/2008 7:05:56 PM PDT by RayChuang88

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The final "Harry Potter" book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," will be adapted into two films, Warner Bros. said Wednesday.

Titled "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," the movies are set to be released in November 2010 and May 2011.

They will be shot back-to-back by David Yates, who is directing the adaptation of the sixth novel, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," due in theatres November 21. Steve Kloves, who has written all but one of the "Potter" movies, also is returning to write the two-parter.

"Hallows," which sold more than 11 million copies in its first 24 hours of release, is J.K. Rowling's biggest book, weighing in at 784 pages. Adapting the novel would have resulted in truncating large swaths of it or making an extra-long feature in order to fit everything in.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Business/Economy; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: harrypotter; movies; potter
I am VERY happy Warner Brothers decided to do Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as two movies. The reason is simple: if you've read the book, there is a HUGE amount of new plotlines and plot twists in the book, much of it material that were not part of the earlier novels.

I can't wait for it to come out at the end of 2010 and and spring 2011.

1 posted on 03/12/2008 7:05:57 PM PDT by RayChuang88
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To: RayChuang88
Off topic, but when's Prince Caspian coming out?
2 posted on 03/12/2008 8:03:44 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

May


3 posted on 03/12/2008 8:27:21 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Giving up "Hairspray" and the cast for Lent. Prayers appreciated!)
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It pissed me off so bad that she put the homo crap out that I refuse to have anything else to do this author or any work that comes from her.

Totally unneeded and totally uncalled for crap.


4 posted on 03/12/2008 8:29:24 PM PDT by ScratInTheHat (Don't like my immigration stance? I'm dyslexic. PC keeps sounding like BS to me!)
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To: netmilsmom

Appreciated.


5 posted on 03/12/2008 11:37:14 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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Well.... I know exactly why she did it though.

She has taken so much crap from fundamentalists over the years that she just had to yank their chain one last time I think.

All she did was utter 5 syllables - “Dumbledore was gay.” And she threw them into an enraged frenzy.

Did it mean anything at all? Nope. Did she write it in the books where the kids could read it? or even imply it ever in the story? Nope.

She did it during a press conference just after getting done once again answering questions about whether her life’s work was intentionally written to turn kids away from the church.

It was calculated and had the exact effect she intended it to have, flaunt the wrath of those who have been attacking her since the first book was published and the success it had in promoting reading for literally millions of children worldwide.

But since it wasn’t the bible they were reading people have been attacking her for turning children’s attention away from what they felt what was the only proper reading for kids. She completely enjoyed herself for once and just dug their hatred toward her a little deeper for the sheer hell of it.


6 posted on 03/13/2008 12:04:36 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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I think this is a mistake. They didn't break Return of the King into two movies. I would rather have one three-hour-plus movie than two movies.
7 posted on 03/13/2008 12:08:50 PM PDT by TheRealDBear
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I think this is a mistake. They didn't break Return of the King into two movies. I would rather have one three-hour-plus movie than two movies.

Well, yeah ... but that's a different market.

As it is, I think it's probably much better to split this one up. There's a natural break: end the first one after Ron returns and destroys the locket; and then pick up with the rest of the book. You'd get two good movies, and there'd be space for all ot the details that would otherwise have to be worked around.

8 posted on 03/13/2008 12:13:43 PM PDT by r9etb
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What was interesting about the Lord of the Rings movies was that Peter Jackson did two versions of each movie, with an Extended Edition that had more information from the books. And they're long, too--be prepared to spend nearly twelve hours straight through if you watch all three Extended Edition movies straight through on DVD.
9 posted on 03/13/2008 8:11:47 PM PDT by RayChuang88
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There's a natural break: end the first one after Ron returns and destroys the locket; and then pick up with the rest of the book.

In fact, that chapter from Deathly Hallows ("The Silver Doe") is a very important climax for what amounts to the first storytelling arc in the novel. Once we go to the next chapter ("Xenophilius Lovegood"), the second storytelling arc involving the Deathly Hallows starts up.

10 posted on 03/13/2008 8:14:54 PM PDT by RayChuang88
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Well, yeah ... but that's a different market.

How so? They're both fantasy books that draw to a largely teenage crowd, with its share of older fans.

11 posted on 03/14/2008 12:35:43 AM PDT by TheRealDBear
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