Harry Potter will divide himself in two as an ultimate trick.
The concluding book from J.K. Rowling’s mega-selling series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be made into two movies.
As initially stated by the LA Times, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I will premiere in November 2010, to be trailed by Part II in May 2011 six months later, in a Kill Bill and Matrix fashion.
As cited in the Hollywood Reporter, Arabic, not Roman, figures will be used in the titles, as in Part 1 and Part 2. All could well be smoothed down by Thursday, when the Times said Warner Bros., the production company behind the big-screen license, will formally proclaim its campaign.
Whichever you number or name, response from the Potter aficionados has been, in the words of Melissa Anelli, Webmistress of the leading fan blog, The Leaky Cauldron, “hugely positive.“
“This has been rumored for a long time, and even the rumor was getting fans excited in a good way,” Anelli wrote in an email Wednesday. “The fans’ number one complaint with the movies always has been that there isn’t enough time to give the rich detail and colorful characterizations in the work the full berth to flourish…Now we can have some time for that without losing some of the most beautiful scenes in the whole series.”
Harry Potter franchise producer David Heyman expressed a comparable reaction to the Times.
“I swear to you it was born out of purely creative reasons,” Heyman told the newspaper
Heyman said Rowling’s culmination, made available last year, is so crammed with important fine points that “unlike every other book, you cannot remove elements of this book.“
Daniel Radcliffe, who by the moment in time the final movie is out will have logged nearly decade as the big-screen boy wizard, agreed.
“I think it’s the only way you can do it without cutting out a huge portion of the book,” Radcliffe advised.
The initial five Potter movies have collective gross $1.4 billion in U.S. theaters, and some $4.5 billion worldwide. The sixth installment, The Half-Blood Prince, is scheduled to premiere in November.
