Half-Blood Prince to open with "big attack"
Snitch Seeker has informed us of a couple new quotes coming from Half-Blood Prince director David Yates and Dan Radcliffe. Yates reportedly had this to say about the opening of the film, courtesy The Sun:We’re opening with a big attack. We’ll bring a major London landmark crashing down.
Back in March, we provided you with details of filming going on at Millenium Bridge. We told you was that it was all for a "bridge collapsing scene," which is likely what Yates refers to in this interview.
Radcliffe also talks in the article, comparing HBP to the film Trainspotting. We'll let you if a more complete interview comes online from the original source: Empire Magazine.
Posted by Andrew on Jul 2nd |
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Awesome! Can't wait to see it! First!!! =D
Can't wait to see it either :) Second!
Yay, 2nd!
oh god, I never got to be the first =[ can't wait to see it!!....
I can't believe we have news about HBP! Still great to have it! :-)
I can wait to see everything and I like what I read. I'm six Hurray!!!!!
ICKLE...seventh...ies?
I'm too EXCITED!
Tell me, screenwriters, do you like making HP fans mad, or is this by accident? I understand cutting out the fist HBP chapter, but, come on, Dumbledore and Harry going to Slughorn's was pretty exciting. This and attacking the Burrow (which completely and utterly invalidates book 7 by the way). What next?
ginerva_weasley: What? The bridge collapse is mentioned in the first chapter, and the rest of the first chapter is going to be in the movie in some shape or form. Dumbledore and Harry going to Slughorn's is in the movie.
ah. that sounds excitingggg. :] Its gunna be greattt!
thats awesome, but im still really mad at the fact, that they are cutting Dumbledore's Funeral scene. HOW ARE THEY GOING TO END IT? by him lying down dead in the grass....THE END..gees.
thank g-d! i love that they will begin so dramatically, and i love that we're getting news about HBP! i've been telling myself that even if john mccain wins the election on the 4, at least there will be something else to look forward to in november!
This will probably be some recollection of Voldemort's disasters upon England
I wonder how they are going to explain a bridge collapsing in the middle of London to the muggles? LOL!!!
WOW. Listen I will be so mad if Dumbledore's funeral isn't in the movie. I still can't wait to go see it in IMAX.
thats going to be SOOO AWESOMEE!
Trainspotting, Daniel? Really? I am so curious as to how those two are comparable. Maybe Voldemort is just a metaphor for heroin.
Jk rowling's version of the funeral with dumbledore and the people talking and Harry saying that he can't be with Ginny, was just perfect. I wonder how they are going to do it? anyways . . . in the book wasn't the bridge collasping scene not even a scene? It was just mentioned in the conversation. so I dunno if that's gonna be the action scene at the beginning at the movie.
woops I change my mind! XD I just read the old post from March about the bridge scene. I thought that it was just a guess, but during that month I had so much school so I didn't go on and see that post. :] anyways, I am so happy that it is opening with a big scene and very actiony! It will get a lot of people "into" the movie.
@up2nogood - "ICKLE...seventh...ies?" NO SOUP FOR YOU. COME BACK, ONE YEAR! hehe, jk.
Yeah...Trainspotting...re ally?
"thats awesome, but im still really mad at the fact, that they are cutting Dumbledore's Funeral scene. HOW ARE THEY GOING TO END IT? by him lying down dead in the grass....THE END..gees."--------LOL!! that made me laugh hahahaha i really hope they DO NOT cut that scene. its probably one of the best and most memorable from the book for me
OKAY EVERYONE! THIS DUMBLEDORE'S FUNERAL THINGS HAS GONE TOO FAR! for a start, we don't have a direct quote so natalina tena's words could have been twisted (however unintentionally). secondly, me and many others always interpreted it that tonks role in dumbledore's funeral was cut (the remus-tonks kiss), nto the funeral itself. please, stop complaining. Secondly, this news is BRILLIANT! I can't think for a better way to start the film, and get across the terror of Voldemorts rise. It would also be a great way to introduce the other minister chapter, we could cut to the Muggle Prime Minister listening to the news on the radio, and we hear the voice of an Opponent blaming it on the Government. The Minsiter turns off the radio, tries to get on with some work, and we hear a cough....
Steve Kloves makes me angry......but i'm still excited anyway.
Can't wait for the movie..... i need the trailer.... NOW!!!!!!!!!
ickle_duddykins: Ten years later, I'm glad someone's keeping that joke alive. haha ;-)
Great to know, but if that Big open is the only really big event that happens in the movie, I will be mad!!! Good luck wb. You will need it!!!
I hope the opening's better than order of the phoenix's was...
I'm REALLY excited....my friends think I'm going mad!! Well....that IS the reason I like Luna so much!! Can't wait for the movie!! HP rocks!!!!
YES just like the song. Londen bridge is falling down, etc. Hooray David Yates
I hope a bit of this clip make it to the Teaser trailer!
OMG i love seinfeld!!!!!! soup nazi rules!!!!!! i think the bridge collapsing will be a great way to start the movie because it shows that they arent messing around and this movie will be seriously wicked.
I hope that the london clip is also in the trailer, but remember guys. The trailer will reflect how good or bad the movie will be!!! So if you see the trailer as not so great, that the movie itself will be a bore to you!!!
That's good news and all, but WHERE IS THE TRAILER! Everyone keeps on saying stuff about it being leaked, and how it's going to be so great, but has anyone seen it yet? grr, why must WB make us wait soo looong!?!
OH MY F* KIESTER!!!!!!!! THEY ARE GONNA SHOW THE SCENES ABOUT THE MINISTERS ARE TALKING IN THE FIRST CHAPTER BUT YEAH WHERE THE HELL IS THE TRAILERTRAILERTRAILERTRAI LERTRAILERTRAILERTRAILERT RAILERTRAILERTRAILERTRAIL ERTRAILERTRAILERTRAILERTR AILERTRAILERTRAILERTRAILE RTRAILERTRAILERTRAILERTRA ILERTRAILERTRAILERTRAILER TRAILERTRAILERTRAILERTRAI LERTRAILERTRAILERTRAILERT RAILER TRAILERTRAILERTRA ILERTRAILERTRAILERTRAILER TRAILERTRAILERTRAILERTRAI LERTRAILERTRAILER TRAILE RTRAILERTRAILERTRAILERTRA ILERTRAILERTRAILERTRAILER TRAILERTRAILERTRAILERTR AILERTRAILERTRAILERTRAILE RTRAILERTRAILERTRAILERTRA ILER TRAILERTRAILERTRAIL ERTRAILERTRAILERTRAILER
Trainspotting!!! I loved that film. It was one of the best I've seen. So all the HP kids are going to be battling an addiction to heroin, having sex with underage schoolgirls. Wind up in a drug house where a baby dies because everyone is so out of it that they don't even notice it's dead until it's decaying in it's crib. Wow I didn't know that they were going to change HBP so much but I'm all for it.
This is exciting! But what have they taken out? Let's see: the funeral scene (what the Hell! Why did they do that?!), the Gaunts (have fun explaining the ring hallow/horcrux in DH, 'cause Harry won't have seen it!), and they've taken out Lupin and Tonks struggling to be together! What have they added? A death eater attack, which totally ruins the concept of Voldemort lying low, which (pardon me if I'm wrong) is the main concept of the book: Voldemort is lying low, gathering an army, while Harry finds out info about his past. And has anyone noticed that they didn't find the locket in OOTP? How are they gonna bring that off in HBP? Just curious. Anyway, it could still be good. I wanna see the trailer first, to see how good it is. GO MCCAIN!
I loved your comment, tabitoo! I'm laughing so hard right now! :) :)
I know all of you have read the books, but maybe you should read HBP again. Because in the book there is an bridge attack, and in the book there are drugs too. So all of this would canon. Romilda wants Harry to take a potion so she will have him, in the muggle world that would be drugs, so of course HBP is comparable with a movie like Trainspotting. But this is The Sun, they love to make up things and take other things out of context, so this can be so far of what tht interview is really about, if it actually exist.
Wow. Just....wow. "We're opening with a big attack. We'll be bringing a major London landmark crashing down." You just watch as its a big TERMITE attack, resulting in the 'crashing down' of said landmark. As for Dumbledore's death scene, He'll prolly just trip over invisible-Harry and fall off the Tower. I WANT THE TRAILER ANYWAYS THOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!
Rose37, not necessarily. I loved the PoA trailer, I thought it was brillant. But, the movie on the other hand, was a piece of crap. Really, it was just awful.
That's pretty cool but I wanna see the trailer sooo badly. But I don't know how I feel about all these sex and drugs refrences though, because the book isn't like that at all.
IF THEY ARE CUTTING THE FUNERAL SCENE I THINK THIS IS HOW THE SHOULD END IT: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Luna, Neville, Ginny are walking to the castle and in the background they will show you the centaurs(sp?) going back in the forest and the mermaids back in the lake then when they are going in the castle harry would be like " guys ill be up in a minute i have to talk to ginny... alone" so then later ron says " okay" and walks away with hermione, neville and luna. Harry looks at ginny in a serious face and says " ginny i can't be with you, its to dangerouse i dont want to see you get hurt" then ginny would be like " i'm not going to get hurt" then harry says " ginny please dont make this difficult for me and you, i still love you" " i love you too" then it cuts and g to ron and hermione on a couch and they talk about future things and then the camera is like walking away from them and then it shows the whole castle and it ends.
sorry i ment(sp?) harry, ron and hermione sittiong on a couch
i can't wait for the trailer, never mind the film! i don't want quotes i want the trailer :( i'm getting impatient... :D
I KNEW IT I KNEW IT!!! I ALWAYS KNEW THAT THEY WERE GONNA START WITH A BIG BANG ATTACK OF THE BRIDGE, THAT'S GONNA BE MY FAVORITE BEGINNING YET! MY FAV. HP BEGINNING WAS OOTP AT FIRST... :) AND DO ANY OF U GUYS WONDER HOW LONG THIS MOVIE WILL BE? I'M HOPING IT'LL BE LONGER THAN COS.
HEY, and all you guys worrying about the "DRUG PARRALLELS" Other than Felix Felicis. think about it, HARRY POTTER PURPOSELY GETS HAGRID AND PROFESSOR SLUGHORN DRUNK SO THAT SLUGHORN CAN TELL HIM THE SECRET OF THE HORCRUXES... Doesn't that ring a bell that this movie will have LOTS of drug parallels... oh, and did i forget to mention sexual energy! YES! this is gonna be one HELL of a movie!
Oh, okay....this makes sense, what with the bridge collasping and all...
ditto paranoid4. I want the flippin trailer.
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