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.”
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.”
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!
I have just found another new clip from the Ultimate Edition of Prisoner of Azkaban Amazon.com’s product page. The video is Warwick Davis and David Heyman talking about the goblins in Sorcerer’s Stone.
Today we have three videos from the press conference held at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter on June 17th. The first is with Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton and Michale Gambon. The second with Matthew Lewis, Bonnie Wright, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps and Warwick Davis. The final video is with David Heyman, David Barron, Stuart Craig and Alan Gilmore.
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