Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows will be 2 films

[cinderboy]

It's Official: Deathly Hallows Will be Two Films!

Source: Los Angeles Times
March 13, 2008

After months of rumors, Warner Bros. and the producers of the massively successful movies will announce Thursday that they plan to split Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling's seventh and final "Potter" novel, into two blockbuster films -- one to be released in November 2010 and the second in May 2011, says the Los Angeles Times.

The films will be titled, simply, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II, according to producer David Heyman. Director David Yates, who returned for his second tour of Potter duty with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and is quite popular with the cast, will direct both "Deathly Hallows" films, which will be filmed concurrently. Screenwriter Steve Kloves also returns and, by completion of the franchise, will have written seven of the eight films.

Some cynics will see the move as simply doubling the box-office payday, but Radcliffe told the newspaper that the split is purely in service of the story.

Heyman said he approached Rowling with some trepidation about the strategy but found that she signed off on its logic rather quickly. "I went to Jo and she was cool with it," Heyman said, "and that was quite a relief."

Heyman said now that the "Potter" team knows they can split "Deathly Hollows" in half, the next challenge is figuring out the division.

As Heyman put it: "The question will be, where do you break it? And how do you make them one but two separate and distinct stories? Do you break it with a moment of suspense or one of resolution? These are the interesting challenges. But each book has presented its challenges."

[shadowsworn]

They were great books though. My sister and I went to the bookstore for the release of the last one, and waited there for hours in line. Then I read it in less than a day.

[Deimos]

Do they get better after the first movie? Because that one sucked so badly that I promised myself never to go see any of them again.

i didnt like any of the movies. theyve become slightly more sinister and dark compared to the childish romp of the first film. but they are still marred by less than stellar acting and questionable plot lines.

not my cup of tea, especially when the cinema is filled with screaming annoying little children who have to go to the bathroom every five minutes.

[Xenonight2]

Do they get better after the first movie? Because that one sucked so badly that I promised myself never to go see any of them again.

Yes, they do, actually.

The third one was a great, great movie because it had an awesome director, but they never used him again.