Half-Blood Prince to open with "big attack"
Half-Blood Prince to open with 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 | 74 Comments
Visitor Comments
Posted by harrypotterguru Jul 2nd 2008

Awesome! Can't wait to see it! First!!! =D


Posted by _Raug_ Jul 2nd 2008

Can't wait to see it either :) Second!


Posted by Hpfan247 Jul 2nd 2008

Yay, 2nd!


Posted by NightDreamer Jul 2nd 2008

oh god, I never got to be the first =[ can't wait to see it!!....


Posted by ClintonDickinson Jul 2nd 2008

I can't believe we have news about HBP! Still great to have it! :-)


Posted by trueligth Jul 2nd 2008

I can wait to see everything and I like what I read. I'm six Hurray!!!!!


Posted by up2nogood Jul 2nd 2008

ICKLE...seventh...ies?


Posted by Ruubski Jul 2nd 2008

I'm too EXCITED!


Posted by ginerva_weasley Jul 2nd 2008

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?


Posted by Abergoat Jul 2nd 2008

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.


Posted by AmongYourLife Jul 2nd 2008

ah. that sounds excitingggg. :] Its gunna be greattt!


Posted by BeRtIxBoTsX Jul 2nd 2008

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.


Posted by lunalovegoodlover Jul 2nd 2008

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!


Posted by randomchat Jul 2nd 2008

This will probably be some recollection of Voldemort's disasters upon England


Posted by Candie Jul 2nd 2008

I wonder how they are going to explain a bridge collapsing in the middle of London to the muggles? LOL!!!


Posted by Me_Siriusly Jul 2nd 2008

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.


Posted by mistylupin Jul 2nd 2008

thats going to be SOOO AWESOMEE!


Posted by janegallagher Jul 2nd 2008

Trainspotting, Daniel? Really? I am so curious as to how those two are comparable. Maybe Voldemort is just a metaphor for heroin.


Posted by buddika Jul 2nd 2008

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.


Posted by buddika Jul 2nd 2008

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.


Posted by ickle_diddykins Jul 2nd 2008

@up2nogood - "ICKLE...seventh...ies?" NO SOUP FOR YOU. COME BACK, ONE YEAR! hehe, jk.


Posted by jakesever Jul 2nd 2008

Yeah...Trainspotting...re ally?


Posted by JKFan5 Jul 2nd 2008

"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


Posted by novuscrepusculum Jul 2nd 2008

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....


Posted by merry_sa Jul 2nd 2008

Steve Kloves makes me angry......but i'm still excited anyway.


Posted by irishfanaticwhobelievessnapeisgood Jul 2nd 2008

Can't wait for the movie..... i need the trailer.... NOW!!!!!!!!!


Posted by up2nogood Jul 2nd 2008

ickle_duddykins: Ten years later, I'm glad someone's keeping that joke alive. haha ;-)


Posted by Rose37 Jul 2nd 2008

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!!!


Posted by Madam_Marshs_Biggest_Fan Jul 2nd 2008

I hope the opening's better than order of the phoenix's was...


Posted by Luna22 Jul 2nd 2008

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!!!!


Posted by njhpfan33 Jul 2nd 2008

YES just like the song. Londen bridge is falling down, etc. Hooray David Yates


Posted by matsemann08 Jul 2nd 2008

I hope a bit of this clip make it to the Teaser trailer!


Posted by georgesear101 Jul 2nd 2008

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.


Posted by Rose37 Jul 2nd 2008

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!!!


Posted by hp_rox_my_sox15 Jul 2nd 2008

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!?!


Posted by paranoid4 Jul 2nd 2008

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


Posted by tabitoo Jul 2nd 2008

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.


Posted by Fia Jul 2nd 2008

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!


Posted by Fia Jul 2nd 2008

I loved your comment, tabitoo! I'm laughing so hard right now! :) :)


Posted by nearly_headless_nick Jul 2nd 2008

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.


Posted by the_shrieking_snack Jul 2nd 2008

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!!!!!!!!!!!


Posted by Lauryn Jul 2nd 2008

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.


Posted by angelina_johnson92 Jul 2nd 2008

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.


Posted by ashurlito Jul 2nd 2008

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.


Posted by ashurlito Jul 2nd 2008

sorry i ment(sp?) harry, ron and hermione sittiong on a couch


Posted by GemmaGinny Jul 2nd 2008

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


Posted by phoenix_knight Jul 2nd 2008

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.


Posted by phoenix_knight Jul 2nd 2008

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!


Posted by honeydukes0209 Jul 2nd 2008

Oh, okay....this makes sense, what with the bridge collasping and all...


Posted by polkadots56 Jul 2nd 2008

ditto paranoid4. I want the flippin trailer.




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