Final Harry Potter Book To Be Split In Two Movies

By Chris Georg
11:00, March 13th 2008
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Final Harry Potter Book To Be Split In Two Movies

Harry Potter fans can now rest assured that no details from J.K. Rowling's seventh book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," will be omitted when it gets shifted to the big screen as Warner Bros. studio just announced their plans to break the book up into two flicks.

Producers behind the multimillion film franchise are set to keep kids' favorite characters of the Harry Potter saga alive at least until 2011, Los Angeles Times reported.

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I" is scheduled to hit theaters in November 2010, followed by "Part II" in May 2011, an announcement made by Hollywood's Warner Bros. said.

David Yates, who is directing the adaptation of the sixth novel, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," due in theatres November 21, will direct and Steve Kloves will write both parts, which will be filmed simultaneously.

"I swear to you it was born out of purely creative reasons. Unlike every other book, you cannot remove elements of this book. You can remove scenes of Ron playing quidditch from the fifth book, and those subplots, but with the seventh, that can't be done," producer David Heyman told the Times.

Moreover, according to Heyman, Rowling also embraced their intentions to have her last book split in half. "I went to Jo and she was cool with it and that was quite a relief," he said.

"Deathly Hallows," which sold more than 11 million copies in its first 24 hours of release, is 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.

Although rife with greedy speculation, the split in two actually solves a great problem for the studio and producers, who previously faced criticism for leaving out important parts of the books when making the movies. Given the books' complexity, at least the previous three installments could have benefited from a double running time

"I think it's the only way you can do it without cutting out a huge portion of the book," "Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe, 18, told LA Times. "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."

Right now, Radcliffe and his costars, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, are filming the sixth installment in the franchise, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," at an old aircraft factory outside London. "It's been brilliant," Radcliffe said of the production. "It's also, I think, the funniest of the films so far."



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