Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)
“Harry Potter” fans may get a treat when the final novel in the series comes to the big screen.
Weighing in at over 700 pages, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” left many fans wondering how the story could be condensed for the big-screen and still make sense. Even series author J.K. Rowling felt that in order to do justice to the novel, the movie version would have to “be at least four hours.”
According to British newspaper The Mail, Rowling and her fans may get their wish. Warner Brothers is considering splitting the film adaptation of the final Harry Potter novel into two films. The two halves would follow the precedent set by such two-part films as “Kill Bill” or the final two “Matrix” films and be released within a few months of each other.
Warners insists that the proposed idea is more an artistic one than a financial one.
“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,” said a source at the studio in The Mail.
There’s also rumors that the proposed split is also intended to help the movie land an A-list, high-profile director for the final installment of the series.
Beyond the fact that Warners will produce the final installment of the “Harry Potter” series on the big-screen, none of this should be taken as anything more than (interesting) speculation and none of it has been offiically confirmed.
Looks like they read my old blog then. I wrote this in the middle of August last year suggesting just this kind of thing
http://www.thisisby.us/index.php/content/saturday_night_at_the_movies
And I specifically suggest Potter. I’ll have some money please Warner
I think that it is a very interesting book and would like to have more books like this one.