Film Journal has done an interview with Harry Potter director David Yates. In the interview he talks about Order of the Phoenix and Half Blood Prince.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was “filmed in seven or eight months–yeah, it was a juggernaut!–but, in total, it has taken about two and a half years from the day I initially sat down with Michael Goldenberg in L.A. to look at the first draft of the script. There were numerous revisions and storyboarding and prepping before The Delivery.”

Regardless of that outcome, Yates is keeping the lad alive via flick six, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. “I’ve been getting the next one ready for three months now while I’m finishing up Phoenix. I’m doing a Chris Columbus. He did the first two films back-to-back, and he had this crazy schedule where he was dubbing One while he was prepping Two. I’ve been doing the same with Five and Six. We start shooting in September.”

Read the whole article HERE.