Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to be Split into Two Films

The most common complaint by fans of the Harry Potter films is that the director cuts out some of the important plot points (this has been done to make the film watchable at 2+ hours instead of 14 or 15 hours, obviously, but has caused disappointment nonetheless). There was talk during the pre-production for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire about the film being broken up into two parts in order to get more of the detailed story points into the film, but it never happened.

Now, however, during the pre-prod stages of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (the 7th and final book) the producers have decided to break the story up into 2 parts - Kill Bill style, if you will.

Warner Bros. revealed yesterday to the LA Times that they plan to split the film in half with one piece being released in November of 2010 and the finale released in May of 2011. As for the titles, they will simply be called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II.

I like this idea. Though I think that the Fourth or Sixth book of the series would perhaps have been better served by being split (the Deathly Hallows has a lot of down time that could be trimmed). The May release of the final chapter will guarantee it to be box office gold as well, and for anyone who thinks they are doing it just for the money… well they might be, but it’s not like they are going to be making any more Harry Potter movies after this one, so let them capitalize all they want.

It’s going to be a while before we see this, and we still have one other movie coming this year, but I think this will be a fitting end for the movie part of the franchise. Hopefully the increase in length will allow them to include more details and be more satisfying to the fans.

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