Exclusive: Harry Potter Deathly Hallows How they're splitting the final film
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is edging ever-closer to release, but we're already thinking ahead to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and so when we sat down recently to talk to Daniel Radcliffe and franchise producer David Heyman, we asked them about the split between the planned two parts of Deathly Hallows.
"We've played around with a couple of places," said Heyman, "and ultimately settled on a place that we think is very exciting, and I think quite bold, in that it's not necessarily where one might expect. You want to give a sense of completion, on one hand, but a sense that there's another piece, more to come. We tried one and then Steve (Kloves, screenwriter) came up with the idea to try it another way and when we tried that, it felt just right."
Daniel Radcliffe added that the split is "at a very tense cliffhanger", which may be a bigger clue for fans.
The pair also discussed the coda to the end of the seventh book (*Mild spoilers follow*), which takes place 19 years after the main story. While Heyman is keen to use Benjamin Button-like technology to age the three main actors to play their older selves, Radcliffe is equally keen to get it right.
"I am nervous about that," he told us, "because if it's good I'll be really, really pleased; if it's not good and that's what people are left with, that would be awful. If it's a choice between having me, Rupert and Emma looking a bit stupid and it being slightly comical or having other actors play us, I would go for other actors every time. So, we'll see."
There's much more from Heyman and Radcliffe in this month's Empire, out on April 23. Did we mention it's our birthday and we've got lots of good stuff in there? We did, once or twice? Oh good.
There are gazillions of new photos from the Wales/Shell Cottage set. I'll post just one, hope it's not too spoilerish:
Helena Bonham Carter as Hermione!!! (that's when Hermione took the Polyjuice Potion):
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They are changing the Malfoy Mannor scenes. Apparently there will be no torture, because Hermione is carrying the dead Dobby's body for the funeral and the goblin's legs aren't broken. ... Read More
I felt a similar 'if they are found, they are dead' thing while reading the book which conveys a real sense of panic about how things can possibly be sorted out, and yes the bit you refer to would definitely be very cliff hangery, finally explaining and underlining the previously apparently silly fear of a person's name. And I did wonder if that would be the cliffhanger ending of the first half.
But I feel there will be some concession to the young uns and the filmmakers will feel some res... Read More
#000000]sftballgirl5 you're absolutely right! I had the Silver Doe scene in mind ever since I heard they would be splitting the last book into two movies. We have some resolution with Ron coming back and struggling briefly with the hocrux before destroying the locket, then Hermione's Rage. But, I think the breaking of the taboo makes a better cliffhanger. Someone watching the movie, who hasn't read the book (but I hope not too many people fit this description, becaus... Read More
I always thought the best split point would be after the Silver Doe. That makes the first film about destroying the first horcrux, the second film about the deathly hallows. Don't know if that's a good enough "tense cliffhanger." For a cliffhanger ending, my guess is either when Voldemort breaks Harry's wand at Bathilda Bagshot's house or when Harry breaks the taboo and the snatchers catch them (before they are taken to the Malfoy Manor). ... Read More
SPOILERS (although I'll try to swerve them)
What if they messed with the order? Put the Malfoy Manor bit before the Xeno Lovegood bit. That way there's a bit more story left for the second film. If it ends at Malfoy Manor there's only the horcrux then the big finale basically, which isn't enough for a film IMO. If it ends at Xeno Lovegoods it basically just adds another action sequence in at the start of part 2, and kills off a character very early on in the 2nd film. If then ended after M... Read More
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My guess all along for how they will split it, is that the first of the two will end at Xeno Lovegood's, with the last line "Are you referring to the sign of the Deathly Hallows?"
That would fit in with Heyman, "more to come", and DR's "cliffhanger", as you have just been introduced to the title object of the book (or film), yet you have no clue of what these are.
That seems the most logical place. Have just flicked through the mid section of the book and this point wo... Read More
ollie1515, I think that too, though the location of the scene (and burial of the character you are talking about) may have to be done elsewhere as it is at Bill and Fleur's house and given that they won't appear in the HBP they may well not make the Hallows films either. ... Read More
My guess all along for how they will split it, is that the first of the two will end at Xeno Lovegood's, with the last line "Are you referring to the sign of the Deathly Hallows?"
That would fit in with Heyman, "more to come", and DR's "cliffhanger", as you have just been introduced to the title object of the book (or film), yet you have no clue of what these are. ... Read More
