The Huffington Post has a new, very long, interview with Harry Potter producer David Heyman. In the interview he talks about working on the series and the final films as well as the different directors they have had do the films and so much more.
Q: I thought people would say, “Is it too British? Are people going to get it?” Even though Lord of the Rings originated with a British author it went beyond the Britishness of it all but part of the Potter films’ charm is their pure Britishness.
DH: Absolutely, and I think we’ve celebrated that more so as we’ve gone on. We had an American director [Chris Columbus] on the first [Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and second, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]; Mexican [Alfonso Cuarón] on the third [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]; and then on the fourth[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, we had one Englishman, Mike Newell; and then on the fifth [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ], sixth [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]. and now seeing it through to the end [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows], we have another Brit at the helm. And that’s great too.
Q: Are you amazed that the series has been so successful or did it seem relatively foolproof?
DH: I didn’t know that we were going to go to the end really until after the fourth film. Once we’d done the fourth film then I felt pretty secure that we’d probably march towards the end. I thought that with the sixth one, there might be a hiccup as it were. And I think the last film will be successful because it’s the last one, but I was a little bit nervous about this one for various reasons.As I’ve said, it was a bit of a tweener, a lot of it is setting up the next film, and one always has doubt – will people pirate it? What’s happened is that I think people have assumed a certain ownership of these characters and these actors; they enjoy watching them grow up before their eyes — our eyes.
Of all the great advantages I have, or we have, over other franchises is that we have Jo Rowling’s books. Certainly other franchises, I mean look at Bond, have to create a new story each time. So, I’m always relieved, a little bit surprised and relieved.
As promised here is part 2 of Magical-Menagerie’s coverage of the World Premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I in London on November 11th! Part I can be seen here. Before I post the video I would like to say thank you SO MUCH to my amazing friend Maura for stepping in to brave the press pit when I wasn’t able to get to London for the premiere. You are AMAZING and did a great job with the footage!
In case you don’t want to scroll down here’s the first video:
Today at the press junket for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I it was revealed that the epilogue for Part II will be reshot around Christmas. RupertGrint.net has some audio from the junkets and you can hear the bit about the epilogue in Daniel’s interview at around 20 minutes and 20 seconds into the interview. They also have interviews with various other stars. Links for all the audio files are below, thanks to RupertGrint.net, again!
The Leaky Cauldron has posted up their red carpet interviews from last night’s premiere! They interviewed Emma Watson, David Heyman, David Yates, Jason Isaacs, Matt Lewis, Katie Leung, Evanna Lynch, and Jo Rowling.
I will hopefully have our footage of the event up tonight!
Today we have a bunch of new video interviews with the cast of Harry Potter, watch them all below (if there is no credit it means I found the video myself):
Alexandre Desplat, David Heyman talk Deathly Hallows Soundtrack
WB has released thirteen new interviews with the cast of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Bill Nighy, Tom Felton, Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Isaacs, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Imelda Staunton, David Yates, David Heyman, and David Barron are interviewed. Watch them all in a playlist below:
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