I KNEW IT! I bet they’ll cut it off around the silver doe, after Ron and Harry become friends again.
I am so happy they decided to do this, I was worried they were going to butcher the last book, but now we know it will be done right and done with the best of teams at the helm! Great news for Potter fans across the world! =)
I have to agree with TML on this: Shell Cottage is too far into the story to have the break. I still maintain that after Ron leaves is a great place to stop the first movie (even if there is a cheesy voice over. haha. —actually, i think yates would have much better taste to do that, even if he is a TV director.)
OMG OMG OMG! yes!
i am speechless and happy and excited and omg! how unfortunate though to how far apart they will come out.
YES!!! Although, I still don’t agree that cutting out S.P.E.W. was okay, which they seem to think it was. However, woo- hoo! They’re teasing me with the months apart release though. I think the original actors will probably play their characters in the epilouge but perhaps a little make-up magic will be performed to make them look older than they did at the Battle of Hogwarts. It’s kind of cool that we’ll get Potter releases so far into the future even though the wait will stink. (It’ll be nothing compared to the pain we had to endure waiting for the book) I’m happy about Yates as well.
AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! I am screaming right as I type. I DO NOT want Yates 2 film these!!!!!!!! I am so P.O.ed!!!! The spliting thing is cool. I was hoping they would do that. But November and may is a long gap…hmm..oh well! I am happy at sliting it and VERY ANGRY that Yates is directiong!!!!!!!!!!Gotta go scream some more….....
I love how everyone is moving up where part one should end. First it started out with Dobby’s funeral and now every seems to think cutting it after Ron comes back or when they’re at the lovegoods is a good place. I was thinking the Silver Doe would be a good place, so I guess that is around the time Ron comes back. But the Lovegoods is an interesting theory because I just thought that whole chapter with Xeno was pretty suspenseful. it was really creepy how Xeno was trying to keep them there and then when Harry saw Luna’s room. that’s a really good chapter.
TML
You can’t cut Gringott’s! That’s where they get one of the Horcruxes! And if you think WB are going to skip the chance to show the trio riding on the back of a dragon blasting through a bank… well I just don’t see how you could think of cutting Gringotts. I agree they probably should just be captured from Xeno’s. That makes a lot of sense. They’ll probably cut Potterwatch.
Tyler
I completely agree. Who in the world would even suggest that they should cut Gringotts. That chapter was absolutely fantastic. It’s one of the most suspenseful and exciting moments in the whole book.
They could lower the number of Horcruxes by one, move the Horcrux to Malfoy Manor… all sorts of easy fixes. The fact is that the most excess garbage from DH comes from the lead up to the whole scene at Gringotts. It being cut would fix most of their problems and allow for a better flowing story.
Mixed feelings here… YAY for two movies (I was very much for this on the staff cast), but I dunno about Yates. He needs to commit to making two more-than-full length movies, I think, for it to be successful as a two-parter. He’s been quoted in interviews as saying that he’s a fan of the 90 minute film, and I just don’t think that will cut it for this (or for HBP, for that matter).
My bet has always been that they’ll end the film after the attack by Nagini, with Harry nearly dead and Hermione knealing over him, wonderfully cheesy. Then open part II with Voldemort’s vision of the night of the Potters’ murder. In my non-screenwriter’s mind, that’d be perfect.
But, thankfully, I’m not the poor bloke who has to make these sorts of decisions… seeing as no matter what they choose, it’s bound to piss off a lot of people!
Shell Cottage is far too late in the story.