MTV has interviewed Harry Potter producer David Heyman.
“We’re following Harry and his relationship with Dumbledore and his search for this past and the puzzle and the key to defeating Voldemort,” the producer said. “We’re seeing some of Voldemort’s backstory; we’re seeing the budding romantic relationship between Harry and Ginny Weasley and the one between Ron and Hermione, as well as Malfoy.”
“The most difficult choice was to edit out some of the flashbacks in the memories that Harry explores,” Heyman explained. “Each film has to exist on its own terms, and alas, within these memories, they’re really significant and actually in the whole body of the series play a very significant part, but within the film they are detours in a way, going into a story about Voldemort, who doesn’t really appear in this film.”
Bonnie Wright, who’s been playing Ron’s little sister Ginny since the age of 9, has relished in the opportunity, in Half-Blood Prince, to participate in things which she previously only got to watch the boys do – Quidditch. “It’s fun but it’s quite painful sometimes when they throw you about. It’s quite high up, it’s kind of ‘Oh my god, I’m really high up’ and you get that kind of sickening urge but yeah it was fun.”
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What, exactly, makes Quidditch stand out in this film? Rupert had a lot to say about it: “This one’s a little more light-hearted than the last one. The last one was really quite dark but this one’s got a few more lighter moments in it, and the Quidditch is quite fun because, for Ron, there are two sort of sides to it. There’s a side where he thinks he’s really good because he thinks he’s taken the potion. And there’s the other side where during tryouts he’s actually not really good. So I have to do a bit of both for this one.”
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Unlike Dan’s 30 takes for his first kissing scene in Harry Potter, Rupert’s were quite a bit less (although he did pop mints and gum to make sure he was April Fresh). “Mine was nothing like that. I think it was around eight [takes] because he [Yates] knew we were quite uncomfortable about it, and it was quite a nerve wracking scene, so he kept it to I think about eight, so it wasn’t too bad.”
There are two new high res Half-Blood Prince promos online thanks to Warner Bros. They show Harry and Dumbledore in his office and the astronomy tower. The photos were first seen in an Entertainment Weekly article.
Snitchseeker has received word from Warner Bros that the UK release date has not changed like the US release date, and will still be out on Friday, July 17, 2009.
So that means those of us in the US get it 2 days before the UK.
Thanks to mediocrechick on livejournal we have a scan from Entertainment Weekly. The scan has a new photo of Harry and Dumbledore in the Astronomy Tower.
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