Last HARRY POTTER to be split into two movies?

by Matt Holmes

Finally Warner Brothers are starting to use their heads in a world where it seems they are hell-bent on ruining their comic book film income for the upcoming years. The Daily Mail here in the U.K. are claiming that some members of the crew working on HARRY POTTER 6 have told them of WB's plan to film the last book in the series HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS in two movies, with the final chapter released just a couple of months after the first, ala' THE MATRIX finale a few years back.

This move would seem to make sense as, A) HARRY POTTER movies make around $600 million PROFIT, so it's an extra cash-cow for WB and with them struggling to find a POTTER replacement and get tentpoles off the ground... this is easy money.B) The book is 776 pages long (more than 3 times as large as the first few books) and fans were pissed with each growing movie over how much material was being left out. Two movies obviously allow a far larger scope.C) It's more appealing to big directors, because they know this one will be epic and grandiose finish. My girlfriend is absolutely desperate to get me into this series because as you know my current CV of Potter knowledge only consists of 20 minutes of one of the movies and not one book read. I will give them a go... but I'm not convinced it's the world I'm going to be interested in. Next job for WB is to find a director for this. Interestingly my girlfriend is a big LOTR fan and she claims that Guillermo del Toro was PERFECT for THE DEATHLY HALLOWS but not the type of director she wants to see on THE HOBBIT. I'm pretty convinced he will end up with one of the gigs. But just which one? Time shall tell. source - cinema blend
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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.