They're filming both movies at the same time like Lord of the Rings. Personally, I would have preferred a single three hour epic.

Yeah, while I'll totally pay for seeing both halves and I'll probably enjoy it very much, it IS not that great an idea to make a film a straight-forward all-details-included adaptation.

I'm thinking, here, of the really well-adapted Order of the Phoenix - my least favorite of the books for its whiny yell-iness. With so much of that teenangsty fat so adeptly sliced off the bones, it made for great movie-watching, in my opinion.

And in a related note... the news in that article that most disturbed me was that Steve Kloves will be penning all of the remaining films. It was his ham-handiness to blame at the bloat of the first two films (though it IS a director's role to fix broken screenplays with editing.) It was Kloves' picking of the wrong details to cover that messed up my favorite scene in the series (Prisoner's Shrieking Shack scene.) Bleah, after such an excellent adaptation of OotP, why go back to the oinkfisted one?

Well, if they do split it into to films, hopefully they will film the two at the same time. This will prevent the extra year or so age difference of the actors.

I don't follow this as close as others, I'm not a huge fan and don't read the books. Isn't there another book or two to make into a movie before the last? have they been following the the same number of books with movies?

They're filming the adaptation of the penultimate book right now; other than the recent announcement all other books have had one film.

I haven't read PoA since it was released, so my memories are vague. What was different about the Shrieking Shack scene that displeased you?


I loved that scene in the movie. It was, imo, the best written of the films and by far the best directed.

I like this idea. I have longed for some of the other books (Goblet, Order) to have been split into two full movies. Now I got my wish with at least one. I wonder if it will be two 2 1/2 hour films or two 90 min films?

Why wait until now to be more faithful to the books?

Good question.
I have a feeling that it has more to do with $$$ than being faithful...
;)

They're hardly waiting. The first two films were slavish transfers of the page to film.

I, for one, am glad they got away from that, and started making movies.

OotP STILL sucked rat jizz though.