Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Movie

[gadzookz]

Teaser trailer online now. (http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b148373_rate-a-trailer_harry_potter_vs_lil.html?sid=rss_topstorie s&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories)

It will be interesting to see how these last three movies (book 7 will be split in two) play out. Will they have to go back and explain things cut out of earlier books, or will they put elements or earlier books in the later movies, or will they just change the movie to fit the movie world?

Movie 5 had to leave a lot of stuff out. Almost all of the house elf storylines, Dobby in particular. Creature had barely a cameo.

Anyway, movie teaser looks promising!

[ShakeNBakes]

I'm pretty sure they had planned on cutting Creature completely out of movie #5, but then JK told them they had to keep it. (This was before book #7 came out and before anybody realized the role Creature plays later in the story) So that will likely be included.

But that's pretty much par for the course when a book becomes a movie. Either parts just don't make the cut or the movie is 73 hours long. The major plot points will be in the movie, some minors ones will be changed to make it flow better, some minor ones will be completely ignored. I say, suck it up and deal with it.

[The Smokin' Cracktuary]

.... I say, suck it up and deal with it.

That's what she said!!! :lol:

[kamek85]

(sounds of crickets, tumbleweed, smattering of applause)

[Person Man]

The biggest problem they're going to have with this movie is that Draco's part becomes interesting and complex, but we haven't seen any indication that the actor who plays Draco is even remotely good.

[GuineaPig]

sorry i'm lazy what's the date for the movie?

[ShakeNBakes]

The biggest problem they're going to have with this movie is that Draco's part becomes interesting and complex, but we haven't seen any indication that the actor who plays Draco is even remotely good.
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[E. Blackadder]

Teaser trailer It will be interesting to see how these last three movies (book 7 will be split in two) play out.
Let's just skip the next-to-last movie. Can anyone say Return of the Yeti?
Yes, I mis-spelled it, for comic effect. possibly unlike the people who mis-spelled Kreacher.

[Levin]

The biggest problem they're going to have with this movie is that Draco's part becomes interesting and complex, but we haven't seen any indication that the actor who plays Draco is even remotely good.
1. I'm holding out a some hope for Bonnie Wright (Ginny). After some awkwardly bad scenes (lousy direction?) in the first two, she seems to be becoming a stronger actor. And from the stills that have been released, she is turning into an attractive young woman.

2. Obviously Alan Rickman has the chops for Snape in this film, but the character has been pretty minor scriptwise since Prisoner of Azkaban. It will be weird to have him suddenly a major character again.

3. Hero Fiennes-Tiffin (the kid playing orphanage-era Tom Riddle) looks pretty awesome from the trailer. Haley Joel Osment in Sixth Sense awesome.

4. Jim Broadbent will more than hold his own as Slughorn.

5. Consensus: you are right. Tom Felton is the weakest link.

[Levin]

sorry i'm lazy what's the date for the movie?
November 21, 2008

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417741/

[Ohel Moed]

The biggest problem they're going to have with this movie is that Draco's part becomes interesting and complex, but we haven't seen any indication that the actor who plays Draco is even remotely good.
Totally agree.

[Will Durant]

Movie 5 had to leave a lot of stuff out.
The result being that the movie was a LOT better than the book.

[Dr T Non-Fan]

The result being that the movie was a LOT better than the book.
Puh-lease.
Worst chop job in the series, so far. I have a hard time watching it, it's so fooked up. Room of Requirement is now apparently penetrable. Great! Let's not read the next book first before screwing up the next important piece of plotlint.

[Levin]

Characters not included in the cast list:

Phlegm -- she's not critical to this part of the story.
But I'd guess they are still going to get Bill and her married in Part 7.
Prime Minister Scrimgeour and Percy Weasley -- Some of Harry's best lines are to Scrimgeour, too bad.

All of the Gaunts (Merope, Marvolo, Morfin) -- yeah, I don't see how they are going to get around introducing these guys.

Hepzibah Smith -- more likely to be able to get by without her

Prof. Trelawney -- in the book, she gave Harry some very important information that only she and Dumbledore knew. I guess DD will give it to him.

[Dr T Non-Fan]

Prof. Trelawney -- in the book, she gave Harry some very important information that only she and Dumbledore knew. I guess DD will give it to him.
There is also a very interesting exchange between Trelawny and Harry in hallway to Dumbledore's office. Muttering about the lightning-struck tower and all.

[Coffee Coffee]

All of the Gaunts (Merope, Marvolo, Morfin) -- yeah, I don't see how they are going to get around introducing these guys.


They're skipping all flashbacks but one(probably the one in the trailer) that's how

[Dr T Non-Fan]

Maybe they'll take out the horcruxes entirely. That would shorten things up a bit. Voldy goes after Hallows instead. Way to fook up the whole series, jag-off director.

[Levin]

Here's some other discussion on the topics.

1. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417741/faq ... I love 2nd FAQ being the key revelation of the story, and not being in spoilers.

2. From a few months ago, describing an extra scene at the Burrow, possibly explaining the scenes in the trailer with Harry running, Ginny outside in her pajamas with a wand, and Fenrir. http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/02/22/harry-potter-adds-scene

[Browncoat]

The biggest problem they're going to have with this movie is that Draco's part becomes interesting and complex, but we haven't seen any indication that the actor who plays Draco is even remotely good.

I dunno...they're still using Radcliffe and Grint. They may be better actors than Felton, but in a "hangnails are better than appendicitis" kind of way.

[Jonas Grumby]

1. I'm holding out a some hope for Bonnie Wright (Ginny). After some awkwardly bad scenes (lousy direction?) in the first two, she seems to be becoming a stronger actor. And from the stills that have been released, she is turning into an attractive young woman.


We re-watched the series recently and I was amazed at just how bad her acting was in the early ones. If one actor looks lousy and the rest seem fine, I don't think you can blame the direction much.

[Jonas Grumby]

I dunno...they're still using Radcliffe and Grint. They may be better actors than Felton, but in a "hangnails are better than appendicitis" kind of way.

:iatp:

[GuineaPig]

first 3:33 of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0IWHfBr-Cw&feature=related)

[Jonas Grumby]

first 3:33 of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0IWHfBr-Cw&feature=related)

Please. You have to do a better job of selling before any of us click on that. :shake:

[Person Man]

I dunno...they're still using Radcliffe and Grint. They may be better actors than Felton, but in a "hangnails are better than appendicitis" kind of way.
But Radcliffe and Grint don't have scenes in any of the movies that will require the kind of subtlety and complexity that Draco's confrontation with Dumbledore does.

[Elessar Dunedain]

:popcorn:

[Luda]

Maybe they'll take out the horcruxes entirely. That would shorten things up a bit. Voldy goes after Hallows instead. Way to fook up the whole series, jag-off director.

shouldn't the plural be horcruces?

[Person Man]

shouldn't the plural be horcruces?
horcri

[GuineaPig]

Please. You have to do a better job of selling before any of us click on that. :shake:

That actually the title of the video.

[Jonas Grumby]

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/08/news-flash-harr.html

Good lord! Harry is shoving off until next year!!

[Gentle Giant]

In an irony sure to set blogger hearts beating giddily, the film graces the cover of EW’s new fall preview issue, which hits stands today. EW and Warner Bros. share a parent company, but they clearly do not share, you know, important friggin’ information.One clear winner here—apart from EW readers now in possession of a “Dewey Beats Truman” collectible...Funny stuff.

[Dr T Non-Fan]

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/08/news-flash-harr.html

Good lord! Harry is shoving off until next year!!
So, for seven additional months, they can add another hour to the movie?

Oh, right, this is David "I'm making my movie, not the book's version, even though it will affect the next movie" Yates directing.

[Person Man]

"Harry, it is time to tell you that to defeat Voldemort, you must destroy his three horcruxes!"

[Lucy]

"Harry, it is time to tell you that to defeat Voldemort, you must destroy his three horcruxes!"Horcrices.

Index, indices
Matric, matrices

Think it's Greek.

(although my dictionary does give "cruxes, also cruses" as the plural for "crux".

[Dr T Non-Fan]

"Harry, it is time to tell you that to defeat Voldemort, you must destroy his three horcruxes!"
Three can be a magical number, I guess.

[Levin]

"Harry, it is time to tell you that to defeat Voldemort, you must destroy his three horcruxes!"
I actually wouldn't have a hard time with the following changes along these lines.

1. The locket in the cave is not a fake. The Kreacher subplot totally goes away. We can even still have Ron destroying it.

2. Hufflepuff's cup has already been taken care of by Dumbledore. The Gringotts break-in goes away. Cool scene, long scene, long set-up. Odd to take out a scene that graced the cover of the British version of TDH, but still expendable. Goblin subplot goes away. Hermione doesn't get to destroy a horcrux ... or maybe she and Ron could take care of the locket together, each holding on to the sword. :shrug:

3. Thus Harry is left with the Diadem, Nagini, and himself to destroy.

[4sigma]

But they don't need to cut scenes from Part 7 -- they need to trim Part 6 no? I'd be surprised if they cut the Gringott's break-in -- there's good action/"spooky" potential in the goblin tunnels.

[Person Man]

They're making Deathly Hallows into two movies, so I doubt much will be cut.

In fact, it would make a lot of sense to move a few important details from HBP into one of those two movies.

[Levin]

I wonder whether the two-film Deathly Hallows is really going to happen. I saw where Steve Kloves (screenplay) was worried that the enthusiasm for the films will die way down now that the books are finished.

As far as trimming HBP, Quidditch and Apparation are easy targets for downsizing.