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Is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows going to be split into two parts?

by Wendy on January 14th, 2008

Wow, news already about the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows movie!

Warner Brothers are apparently considering splitting the filmed version of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows into two halves because of the tome’s length.

According to British rag The Mail on Sunday, the crew working on the sixth adaptation - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - have already been told the news.

The paper quotes an unnamed ‘film source’, who said: “There’s so much to fit that the view is the last movie should be in two halves. There is a huge battle when Harry, played by Daniel Radcliffe, takes on Voldemort that needs to be done really well.”

As the Harry Potter books have got progressively longer and more complex, the filmmakers adapting them have had to omit increasingly large chunks of the books. Many fans weren’t happy that The Order of the Phoenix (nearly 900 pages) and The Goblet of Fire (over 700) were compressed into single films.

In recent weeks rumours about who will direct The Deathly Hollows have also been circulating, with Hellboy helmer Guillermo Del Toro and even Steven Spielberg rumoured to be interested in the job.

- source

Here’s more about the possibility of Steven Spielberg directing Deathly Hallows:

As for that Spielberg tease in the headline, the article then goes on to say that big-name directors such as Steven Spielberg are being courted to helm the final film. Uh, that ain’t gonna happen either. How about I throw in Clint Eastwood, James Cameron and Martin Scorsese just for the hell of it. As a matter of fact I think I heard from unnamed sources that Uwe Boll and his German financiers were ready to pounce on the final film and were just waiting for the papers to come through. Boll apparently threatened to make Parry Hotter and the Lively Condemnations should he be denied. I mean, who are these sources?

The final quote from the piece comes from a “spokesman” saying, “People are discussing all possibilities.” Ha, my source said the same thing! They are discussing stuff. Go figure, it could be the same person!

Get excited about the seventh film coming to theaters but don’t put too much stock in silly rumors until we get an actual source.

- source

I think it would be great to have Deathly Hallows in two parts, what do you think?

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