The LA Times has a new interview with Steve Kloves, the screenwriter for all the Potter films except for Order of the Phoenix.

What, if anything, can you say about the climactic moment between Snape and Dumbledore? In the book, it’s a short but intense scene.

It is informed by everything [Potter readers] have come to know is true. So if you watch the film carefully, there are performance moments that are quite extraordinary, Alan Rickman [who plays Snape] especially. There is something we added that you can look forward to, a short scene between Harry and Snape prior to the big event. It’ll be interesting to see how it plays to the audience. It should be a haunting moment for Harry. While I was writing, I just had a notion about a moment between him and Snape, something Harry could look back on and question as to why he didn’t act differently.

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The Baltimore Sun has a new article online and it has a bunch of fun information such as an interview with director David Yates and Steve Kloves, the screenwriter for most of the Potter films!  They talk about bringing the Potter films to life.

Screenwriter Steve Kloves, a distinguished director himself (The Fabulous Baker Boys), has been working with Yates back-to-back-to-back on Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows I and II. He says Yates’ “vast resources of patience” are good to have on Potter films, “since the books are difficult to wrestle to the screen.” But “there is something else that separates David Yates,” says Kloves. “He is willing to do the heavy lifting, to make the difficult decision when necessary – something which many directors are not willing to do.” Kloves, the adapter of all but one Potter novel (Phoenix), writes first drafts that tend “to be both wishful and practical” in his desire to retain Rowling’s details and plot twists. “Wishful in the sense that I want to get the entire book on the page and practical in the sense that I know the wishful side of me is insane.”

Harry Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves did an interview with the Baltimore Sun and he talks about the Deathly Hallows film!

“Years ago,” he writes, “we briefly and seriously” considered doing Goblet of Fire as two films. So this concept is not altogether new. As for Deathly Hallows, I intuited” almost from the first moments I began reading it and certainly once I  finished that to realize the story in a single film was going to be a tall order. Others in ‘the group’ felt similarly. So the idea of two films began to get kicked around as early as late summer of 2007. We didn’t take it lightly. But ultimately everyone felt that despite the challenges it would present, it was the most sound creative decision. I’m sure some will think we’re crazy. My wife looked at me cross-eyed when I first mentioned it. But I’m really excited about it because it should allow us to stretch a bit with the characters and give them the proper send-off. The story is highly emotional and those moments deserve time to breathe. And, personally, I feel we owe it to Jo in order to preserve the integrity of the work and the fans for their loyalty all these years to give them the best and most complete experience possible. I’d love to do it in three parts!”

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