As I posted earlier in the week, Total Films latest issue features Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. There are interviews with Emma, Dan, Rupert, Tom Felton, David Yates and David Heyman.  We have scans of the issue thanks to SnitchSeeker, and you can see them all in the gallery!

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Thanks to HPotterDaily we have scans from the latest issue of Studio Cine Live, the issue featured a preview of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I and included an fun interview with David Yates where he describes what is happening in promotional photos.  You may see the scans in the gallery!

It is the scene which I am working on in the next room, at the moment we speak! it is the inside of the house of Xenophilius Lovegood, Luna’s father. The partisans of Voldemort, the death-eaters, are attacking his house. Harry tries to reach Ron and Hermione between of all the explosions.

Harry, Ron and Hermione are searching the Horcruxes which conceal the piece of the soul of Voldemort. In the middle of the movie, they discover that one of Horcruxes is in the ministry of the Magic. Ron is looking after the arrival of three magicians to kidnap them to take their appearance thanks to the polynectar and go into the ministry without being taken.

Rhys Ifan plays the father of Luna Lovegood, an idealist who always believed in Harry Potter. But his daughter is retained by death eaters, which obliges him to deliver them Harry. Rhys corresponds perfectly to this figure of eccentric. He was very joyful to play in Harry Potter. He said that it was like join the team of football of England.

Voldemort gathered his troops to reveal them a secret. If he was not able to kill Harry until then, it is because there is a link between both wands which prevents them from destroying each other. Voldemort orders Lucius Malefoy (Jason Isaacs, here in the center) to give him his wand which is very castrating and humiliating for a wizard, looking forward to putting the hand on one of the famous relics of the death: the elder wand, the most powerful weapon.

When the movie begins, the world is collapsing. Mangemorts persecutent moldus… The ancient members of the order of the phoenix assure Harry’s protection. Mad-eye suggest to duplicate Harry so that the deat-eater doesn’t know after whom to run. Here, it is real Harry, fleeing Privet Drive with Hagrid.

I find the image of this girl with some blood on hands very strong. It is Ron’s blood. They have just escaped from the ministry of the magic. Ron is lying farther, badly torn up by a spell. Hermione create a shield of protection to hide them from Death Eaters. These three children, that we always knew in the reassuring environment of Hogwarts, are now in the real world. An extremely dangerous world where they risk their lives all the time.

It is the last scene of the movie. Harry, Ron and Hermione have just escaped from Malfoy Manor. A member of their team is fatally injured. Why the glance horrified by Ron and Hermione. It helped a lot to take the actors out studios of Leavesden and green funds, for once. Approximately 25 % of the movie was turned with decors natures.

Thanks to SS for the transcript!

Slash Film is reporting that David Yates MAY be the new director for ‘The Hobbit’.

I’ve been seeing on a few industry insider tracking boards that David Yates is supposedly the studios top choice to direct The Hobbit. Note: we have no real confirmation of any talks taking place, so for now take it all as purely rumor.

Yates is best known as the director of the last few Harry Potter films: Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince, and Part I and II of the Deathly Hallows. As you know, Guillermo del Toro recently stepped down from directing the big screen adaptation, but would continue to collaborate with Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens on the Hobbit screenplays until they are finished.

Yates definitely knows how to handle the stress of adapting a highly anticipated big screen fantasy adaptation with epic-sized special effects and has an established relationship with Warner Bros.

I would be SO excited if he does it!

In Total Film‘s latest issue they have some new information on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Director Davis Yates, producer David Heyman, screenwriter Steven Kloves, and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) spoke with them while on the set.

Yates called Part I a road film, saying it was dynamic, adrenalised, and visceral. He continued, “It’s a refugee story about three kids cut off from everything they know and everybody they love, being pursued relentlessly by people who want to murder them.”

He then pondered about the split and how one should go about splitting one story to make it two distinct stories. “Do you break it with a moment of suspense or one of resolution?” he asked aloud.

He also called Part II,  “A big opera, a great big epic, with huge battles.”

Emma said she felt she was on a different film as this film doesn’t have the structure that the previous films had.  She explained, “The others have this structure. You know, we come into the Great Hall and there’s the opening talk. And that’s gone.”

Screenwriter Steven Kloves gave a bit of a hint about the split, saying it was the most sound creative decision on where the split occurs.  He also stated that the split will give a proper send-off to certain characters, “It should allow us to stretch a bit with the characters and give them the proper send-off.”

Thanks SS!

In a bunch of new interviews (one, two, three), David Heyman, David Barron, director David Yates, and actors Tom Felton, Bonnie Wright, and Jessie Cave talk about the Harry Potter Films.

“Ultimately, what makes these books work, what I love about the books, is that for all the spectacle, for all the adventure, (there are) the characters.” Part I will be “the road movie” with the young stars on the run, Heyman says. The final battle comes in Part II. “And what we are trying to do in this final battle, as much as we can, is root it in characters! For me, it’s really all about the characters and it’s about the people who are battling and, if you’re invested in that, that is what will make it work!”

Heyman has predictions about co-stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson:  “Dan will continue acting and maybe directing. I think he’s interested in that.  Rupert will continue acting. Rupert is one of the most original people you will ever meet, really lovely. He’s a one-off. And I think Rupert is a really talented actor with great comic timing.  Emma, if she wants, can be a movie star. She is hugely talented and incredibly in touch with her imagination. She is fiercely intelligent and I think she could do whatever she chooses to do.”

Thanks SS!

BBC News recently interviewed a bunch of Harry Potter cast members and the interviews are now online in video and text form, here.  Dan Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Bonnie Wright, Tom Felton and David Yates were interviewed.

“They’ve had a good structure here and at home, they are pretty solid kids,” he says.  “They are going to go and have great fun – they are going to have great success. I’m sure they will thrive. I think they all know I’m here to support them, and if they ever want a chat I’ll be there for them. Ultimately they’ve got to leave the fold and take flight – and I know they will.” – David Yates

There is also another new interview with Daniel that you can read here at CBBC Newsround.