We have more tonight regarding that new issue of Movie Magic magazinewe told you about a few days ago, which contains a large preview on the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie.” Thanks to Orchid, who let us know she now has all the scans up at her Harry/Ginny website. Of interest is a new interview with actor Tom Felton (scans also here, here and here in our galleries) who speaks a bit more on his character of Draco Malfoy in the sixth Harry Potter film. Tom says that there “are reasons that Draco is the way he is…He’s seen so many things and been taught so many wrong ideas from his father, Lucius, and of course he worships his father. He wants to be like him, to emulate him in every way. But his father has been involved in Voldemort’s dark circle for many years, so it’s not unusual that Draco would want to follow that path too. Everything is to please his father.” The article also contains a bit from Potter film producer David Heyman, who praises the actor’s performance in the upcoming movie, as he says “Tom’s nuances in the new film are terrific. It feels like a deeper richer character than we’ve seen to date.”
On a related note, and perhaps of greater interest to fans, is a possible movie spoiler contained in the magazine’s Encyclopedia of things relating to “Half-Blood Prince.” While it is possible this is a typo or mistake, the article describes the dreadful character of Fenrir Greyback and what is a possible plot twist in the movie. If you do not wish to read more, please stop here, otherwise scroll down for more.
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The article (scan here) describes the Werewolf in the movie, and then says that in his attempt to create “an army of werewolves,” “Fenrir attacks Harry, but Harry or (someone unseen) petrifies him in time. But Ron’s Dad is not so lucky-Fenrir mauls his face and nearly kills him.” As readers will recall, we learned that the character of Fleur was not going to be in HBP, nor have we learned of the casting for Bill Weasley, so perhaps they have given Arthur that terrible fate for this film, however as we do not know if this is indeed the case, please keep this in the rumor category until we can update with more.
Quite frankly, I’m fine with what they do as long as it stays true to the ‘feel’ of the books. It took me til my 2nd time watching OotP to realise that but I’ve accepted it now. There is no time to have hundreds of characters, however interesting, and all the extra subplots. The books can do that and you can revisit them anytime. The movies have chosen to focus on Harry so anything that isn’t necessary is cut or rearranged. And for me it works.
Changing who Greyback attacks isn't just about an extra 'action' sequence, if it's even true, it would be about showing for DH the kind of werewolf he is as opposed to Lupin and making us very worried when we see Hermione carted off by him in Malfoy Manor. Bill and Fleur are not necessary to the plot and at this late stage would be a hindrance to the huge cast we already have. So it makes sense to change who is attacked, and it needs to be a Weasley so that we can see what the cost to them is of fighting back. If they don't suffer this issue then it's not as clear what they are risking to oppose Voldemort.
There will always be reasons for any changes/additions made so I think we need to calm down and see what happens in the actual movie before we decide that this is a bad one. After i got over my whinge about OotP the first time i watched i really enjoyed it. It does capture the spirit of the book and I have faith that the remaining movies will too.
Hmm… very interesting. I’m not to suprised that we won’t be seeing Bill and Fluer, nor to terribly upset (not that they didn’t add a lot to the books, I loved them in the books, but speaking from a movie standpoint). Lupin and Tonks are bigger characters and it will make Teddy’s storyline (if they keep it) much more meaningful.
However, I don’t like the idea of Arthur getting attacked again. As much as I loved how Yates did OotP, I felt like the snake attack was rather weak without the hospital scene and the bit where Harry and Sirius and the Weasleys are all waiting for news. That was huge in the book but was cut down for the movie, and with the amount of information (the “this is how we did it” from the deatheaters and the RAB locket) that will need to be given at the end of HBP, not to mention Dumbledor’s death, I can’t imagine them spending much time on Mr Weasley’s attack which will again water it down and make it rather pointless. I wish that they would cut it all together.
That being said, I loved OotP and am extremely excited for HBP. It will still be amazing, the absence of Bill and Fluer or the switched attack to Arthur would not ruin the movie for me.
Posted by GubraithianGryffindor on July 10, 2008, 05:02 AM
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For Merlin sake….. they have CHO in this movie again and they didn’t even bother to have someone play BiLL???? I mean I knew there was no news of anybody being cast for the role…. I love HBP book…. but the movie has been a real disappointment till now. Hardly any news or photos… and what I have read doesn’t sound too promising. I HAVE TO BE HONEST. I know there’s always been cuts and changes in the other movies but I’ve never been so disappointed in any of them.
uuuuggghhhh. i wish they had given bill a cameo in the 3rd or 4th movie, and gave fleur more screentime in GOF, so this wouldn’t be an issue at all. poor arthur. fenrir needs to attack SOMEONE, so the malfoy manor scene is more frightening, and the weasleys need to suffer more (unfortunately).. but poor arthur :(
Hmmm…interesting. I’m so glad that Tom is finally getting to stretch his acting legs in this movie. He’s definitely a great actor and he definitely deserves more screen time.
I think it would be cool if they made Arthur the one who gets attacked instead of Bill. I mean JKR was going to kill Arthur in book 5 anyways, but then again it would be a little too repetitive since Arthur just got attacked by a giant snake in movie 5. So I hope it was a typo, but if it wasn’t then I can live with it.
Speaking of the past history of David Yates directing the films, I wonder how long the Half Blood Prince movie will be – an hour? Think of all the great stuff he can leave out for the sake of streamlining it! My opinion is if David Yates wasn’t crazy about the stories as written and thought so much was expendable, then why did he get involved with Potter films anyway!
One day someone will remake them the way they were supposed to be done.
That’s cool. I’m really excited for the movie. Not excited for the changes, but no one ever is. I really wish they would have kept Bill and Fleur. I love this director, so either way, I trust it will be a great film.
It surprises me that no one has mentioned the possible elimination of the character of Dobby; after all, we haven’t seen him in the movies for quite a while…
With everything else being cut, mutilated or mangled why wouldn’t they just leave out Dobby’s death as well? Or maybe Hedwig’s? Why not just leave out Voldemort’s demise?
These movies are so *&%@#$! un-canon that they may as well just film the movie they want to make and leave Harry Potter out of it completely!!!!!!!
(Apologies for my venting, but this has been annoying me for quite some time now.)
Maybe, someday, someone will remake all the movies and stick to canon…
(Yeah, and Flitwick will become an Olympic basketball gold medalist while Snape teaches sensitivity classes for Deatheaters and McGonnagall pole dances at The Leaky Cauldron.)
“All i have to say is Guys!!!! GROW UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s a movie!!! yes you might like the movies and have read all the books but get over it! Trust me! I am one of the hugesyt HP fans!! Don’t worry about the movies yuntil they come out ok!!!!!!! OH YA!!! All you people leaving comments, go back to grade to and take a spelling lesson!”
She makes a good point we can’t spell. Thank you emmawatson, i’m also the hugesyt HP fan and yuntil the movies’s come out i’ll go back and redo grade to.
It is sad that they mess everything up. I guess that is the price when you sign a movie contract from the plot of a book. But it annoys me that with the first two movies Chris Columbus suck with Harry’s world very closely, following the book very carefully. Now that everyone has the visual image of his surroundings the focus on other things not in the book. Some are good, the the highlighted changes of seasons in POA featuring the Whoomping Willow; but others they stray to far from the book.
ALSO: I just got back from Mama Mia! It is really good. Funny, light and entertaining. And Julie Walters can sing! I never would have guessed it of her! A very good movie. Totally worth $11.50 (Australian dollars)
Oh dear, it seems I’ll have the cinema all to myself for HBP – as if! And a message to all Yates haters : if the attack on Arthur is true its a script change (guess who). Finally, OotP was great, including the first fifteen minutes!! Rant over.
The HP movies don’t bring anything new or refreshing to the series. They’re just a badly mangled uncanon version of a book series. I feel the HP movies have dumbed-down the books and Yates proved that to me when he explained why they cut the Lily-backstory and Snape’s Worst Memory. Everyone I knew who read the books wanted to see that storyline unfold in the OOTP movie. That stuff got cut down to a few glimpses of Lily/James/Snape. Yates said he didn’t think it would translate clearly to suddenly introduce Lily and that backstory to the audience. what do you mean? The majority of the people who watch the HP films are kids who eat up these books like crazy. I don’t understand why they think we’re too slow to fully grasp such subplots?
The entire Marauders’s backstory was gutted to the rubbish we saw PoA. Ugh. How anti-climatic was that? The whole story surrounding the events that impact Harry’s life ALL go back to the Marauders’s era and Snape.
I don’t blame Warner Bros. because they’re clearly capable of producing QUALITY films, “Batman: The Dark Knight” being a perfect example where VERY talented writers put together such a compelling script with some amazing actors. HP have great actors working with sub-par material. In comparison, Kloves is such a bloody amateur.
“How does keeping the wedding scene help/relate to Harry? Screw everyone else.”] <<<< This is the kind of stupidness they will consider when making the DH script and cutting “unnecessary” things out.
They gutted OOTP and left things only directly connected to Harry and basically saying F.off to everyone else. I hated the way Yates explained that when talked about cutting Quidditch and other stuff. And what did that result in? The shortest Harry Potter film to date. Bullocks.
Quite frankly, I’m fine with what they do as long as it stays true to the ‘feel’ of the books. It took me til my 2nd time watching OotP to realise that but I’ve accepted it now. There is no time to have hundreds of characters, however interesting, and all the extra subplots. The books can do that and you can revisit them anytime. The movies have chosen to focus on Harry so anything that isn’t necessary is cut or rearranged. And for me it works.
There will always be reasons for any changes/additions made so I think we need to calm down and see what happens in the actual movie before we decide that this is a bad one. After i got over my whinge about OotP the first time i watched i really enjoyed it. It does capture the spirit of the book and I have faith that the remaining movies will too.