Reelz Channel has posted their newest Muggle Minute which features a look at the non-Harry Potter careers of Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint. Watch below!
MSN Movies UK has posted a new set report from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows where they interviewed Daniel Radcliffe, David Heyman and David Yates!
“It’s a lot more grown-up than anything we’ve done so far,” says Yates. “This one is particularly violent at times so it’ll be quite interesting when we present it to the studio.” True enough, Radcliffe looks like he’s in the wars. “These are wounds that happen to me from various things in the battle,” he tells us, sitting down for a chat. “In the last two hours of the film, I start becoming a bloody mess. The action in this film is going to be pretty extraordinary.”
But first comes Part One, where Harry, Ron and Hermione leave Hogwarts on a roadtrip to search for the Horcruxes – whatever they are. Venturing completely outside Hogwarts is a big reason that Deathly Hallows will be an entirely new experience for Potter fans, claims Radcliffe. “It makes a huge difference,” he says. “We’re not wearing the robes. It gives the film a totally different feel. You’re not going to be seeing the great hall for another five months.”
The LA Times has updated with their latest edition of Hero Complex and it has some quotes from Daniel Radcliffe, David Heyman, Tom Felton and Steve Kloves.
Screenwriter Steve Kloves said that there technically is one glimpse of Hogwarts in the film but he’d rather not elaborate. “This moment would fall in the category of flashback,” said the writer who finishes the franchise having written scripts for seven of the eight films. “Revealing it may ruin a rather lovely — albeit small — moment of the movie.”
Radcliffe said treading past the stony floors of the well-used Hogwarts movie set in Watford, England, energized the cast during the production of the seventh and eighth films, which were made together in a shoot that began in February 2009 and did not wrap until mid-June of this year. “I think getting out was a marvelous thing for the story and for the look of the film,” he said. “This movie just looks different than the other ones. We’ve spent so much time at Hogwarts that it makes it fresh to go somewhere new on screen.”
Thanks again to HarryPotterLA we have translations from two of the interviews in Cinemania (with more on the way!) For now we just have Emma and Dan, which may be read here.
Harry Potter is going to be part of Hollywood history as one of the biggest franchises of all time. What would you like the people to remember about them? Dan: I hope they remember the bond between Harry and both of his friends. Friendship is very important, even more if you were unfortunate and you grew up without parents, like Harry. His friends were his family, and for many kids who are in similar situations in the real world, he’s kind of a role model.
Is it true the first time Rowling met you she said it was like finding his lost son? Dan: That’s true. You can’t receive a better compliment, can you? She’s very nice. The first time we talked on the phone she said she wanted to adopt me, which was a great thing. I just handed the phone to David Heyman (producer), I was very embarrassed. She’s a great person.
From all the directors, which one is the one who understood better the Potterverse? Emma: Chistopher really understood the book’s heart; Alfonso, his magic; Mike understood the comedy; and David, the darkness and subtlety. Everyone gave interesting things.
Which was the most memorable scene? Emma: The most fun was Fleur & Bill’s wedding, everyone dancing and everything. The last week I made a scene where I had to jump over a dragon’s back and it was amazing. As well as the scene where we are chased by Snatchers through the forest. Also, I’ll never forget the scene where Helena Bonham Carter tortures me.
Hopefully the other translations will be ready today!
In a new interview with the NZ Herald News a bunch of the cast talk about filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Matthew Lewis, Daniel Radcliffe, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Felton and David Heyman were interviewed.
“We were all aware that this great juggernaut was reaching the end of its journey, so we wanted to give it and the characters the proper send-off they deserved,” says producer David Heyman, describing the rationale for the split.
“The only way to do that and preserve the integrity of the work was, we felt, to have two parts because Deathly Hallows is so rich, the story so dense and there’s so much that is resolved.”
Daniel Radcliffe had campaigned from the start to break the story into two movies. Unlike the earlier books, which had secondary plot lines that could be omitted, Deathly Hallows had few details to drop, Radcliffe says.
“It’s just the three of them on the road, and that’s what you’re focusing on, that’s where everything happens. So there’s very little you can actually cut without changing the story,” he says.
“There was no way you could do justice to the book and really capture the story in one film, unless you made that film six hours [long].
“And while I know there are some Potter fans who would be quite happy to have a six-hour Harry Potter film, we do want to make films not just for the huge fans of the books, but also for the other people, regular cinema-goers, who perhaps haven’t read them. So it was essential to make it palatable for sort of everyone, while also remaining true to the book, and to do that, you have to make it into two films.”
Similarly, to ensure cinematic continuity, director David Yates – who previously helmed Half-Blood Prince and Order of the Phoenix – was re-enlisted for both parts of Deathly Hallows. That decision became a life-saver during filming, says Matt Lewis, who plays Neville Longbottom.
“Not only was it a really long shoot, it was also really tricky because we didn’t film them back to back,” he reveals. “We shot them simultaneously, like Lord of the Rings, so it got really confusing. If we didn’t have such a good crew and David directing us, it could have got completely out of control because the schedule for the last year was crazy. I literally don’t know what film each scene was in, or how they fit together. But we all just buckled down because it’s the last one and we wanted to make it as memorable and epic as possible.”
DailyRecord has posted an interview with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint where they discuss a myriad of things. There is also a new banner poster of Harry as well as a new version of the trio running in the forest poster that may be seen here and here! Some snippets from the interviews are below.
He was especially impressed by the sequence when a potion turns a bunch of schoolmates into doubles of Harry so that there are seven Harry Potters on camera. He said: “That scene is going to be pretty fantastic. Obviously people will realise that it’s a visual effect but normally when you have one person talking to another version of himself it is pretty obvious how it has been done. In this scene though it’s great – arms are overlapping and it looks fantastic. We did 96 takes for this one shot. We had to do each shot seven different times with all the Harrys standing in different places. That is the first really cool bit of magic in the first part of the film. It was so well thought out and well done.”
Daniel knows that for devoted fans it will be agony to wait for the second part of The Deathly Hallows and that they might actually have preferred to see the two parts in one epic Harry Potter marathon movie. He said: “I know that the dedicated fans would gladly sit through a six-hour Harry Potter film but not everybody possesses the same passion that they do.”
Although he is a star of one of the world’s most successful film franchises, Rupert admits he is still over-awed by the famous faces who appear in the Potter movies. He said: “They do all have quite a presence. When we started I got very excited at working with stars like Alan Rickman and Robbie Coltrane. I used to ask for autographs at the first opportunity – I think it was at the first read-through.” Rupert reckons he wasn’t in the best shape for the action in The Deathly Hallows. “There is a lot more running than I’m used to.” “I quite like the stunts but I don’t do any kind of exercise at all so it hit me quite hard. “Everyone wants this film to be the best one ever.”
The 20-year-old is studying in the US at prestigious Brown University in Rhode Island and has settled into academic life. She said: “It’s hard to choose one thing that I like most about university. I guess I just enjoy the simplicity of my life. I am sharing a tiny room with another girl and I only have space for three or four pairs of jeans and a couple of tops. My life has been compressed but it’s nice.” Her student schedule in the States is a world apart from the red carpet glamour of being a film star. She said: “I live in a bubble. I don’t read newspapers and I don’t watch TV.” Emma is also pleased that she has been accepted by the other students. She said: “I was amazed how quickly everyone on campus got over that I was from Harry Potter. I’m going to be there for four years so they’ve realised that they are going to see me most days and have just got used to me.”
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