Carnegie Mellon Today has a new interview up with Michael Goldenberg, where he discusses writing the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix script.

“You are translating from one language into a very different one,” he says. “The tools of a screenwriter are opposite to those of a novelist. In a novel, you have the luxury of digressing and exploring, and stopping to luxuriate in all the details. Screenwriting is first and foremost about compression�distilling, picking the one detail, the one telling image, or the dialogue that encapsulates what might have taken many pages in the book. We’re looking at it from the other end of the telescope.”

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The Harry Potter fansite HPANA released a video with interviews  held at the American OotP premiere in Los Angeles. You can see interviews with Dan Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, David Yates, Imelda Staunton, Chris Rankin, David Heyman and Michael Goldenberg.

You can watch the video HERE

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Michael Goldenberg, the screenwriter for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has done a new interview.

Mr. Goldenberg’s thoughts on when offered the fifth movie:

It was one of those things where the call came in, and you’re thrilled, but at the same time there’s that moment of realizing you’ve just lost control of your life for the next couple of years.

And so when I read it, I was very aware of that and very careful to mark up what jumped out at me and what seemed obligatory and what really moved me and what I felt needed to be in the movie.

Goldenberg one of the most pivotal scenes, the pensieve:

…that kind of loss of innocence – seeing a parent whom you’ve idolized suddenly revealed as flawed, and an authority like Snape, whom you’ve demonized, suddenly revealed as much more complicated than you first thought.

See the scans HERE courtesy of HPANA

After some fake reports were posted on Harry Potter fansites, yesterday(I did not post the article), Michael Goldenberg , the screenwriter for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, has done an interview with The Leaky Cauldron where he discusses the new film.

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Read the full interview HERE.
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