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
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Posted by iwantorlando05 Jul 2nd 2008

He's definitely talking about the London Bridge collapsing. I'm soooo excited that they left that in. It's going to be an awesome opening scene!! Come on "Dark Knight" so that we can see the teaser trailer!!!


Posted by lupus24 Jul 2nd 2008

THIS IS SO EXCITING!!! I would totally write more, but I have to run to work! : )


Posted by rob1007 Jul 2nd 2008

well i think this wont be bad. didnt in the first chapter the muggle prime minister talk about all this bad stuff like a hurricane happening?? i think this will just be an example of one of those. it will probably happen and the bridge will fall then zoom out and make it part of some newspaper like they did a lot in ootp.


Posted by hpismyfav Jul 2nd 2008

OMG THEY ARE GOING TO FAR WITH CUTTING OUT THE FUNERAL! HOW ARE THEY GOING TO END IT? the bridgr scene sounds like a great opening though! I hope they don't destroy it like OOP It was nothing like the book! It was the longest book and the shortest movie! I thought ashurlito idea sound great for the last scene! Where the hell is the Flipping Trailer?????????


Posted by rob1007 Jul 2nd 2008

where does it say they cut the funeral!?!?


Posted by kooldude10694 Jul 2nd 2008

Cool. Can't wait for it. I really want the trailer. I wish WB would push out a trailer release date or something. Does anyone think that a way better beginning for the OOTP movie would be a scene that is when Dumbledore is interviewing Trelawney for the Divination job and then she makes the prophecy and then they could show Snape behind a door listening. I thought of that the other day and that would be totally cool. Who else thinks so?


Posted by HermioneIsMeX Jul 2nd 2008

Trainspotting, orly?


Posted by hplvr92 Jul 2nd 2008

Sweet, some HBP news! Is it just me or has this been the slowest movie so far? Anyway, the funeral stuff, that's kind of out of left field. Chill out guys, they can't keep everything and as someone already pointed out it may have been a misquote. I'm psyched about the bridge collapsing idea, it'd be a good way to set the mood. I'm so excited for the movie. Everyone seriously needs to calm down though, some people are going overboard. They can do what they want, and none of the movies have been atrocious!


Posted by Potter_Chick_86 Jul 2nd 2008

Trainspotting? Really? First he's naked in Equus and now Harry's doing a plethora of illegal things? I think he's talking about all the angst. HBP and Trainspotting are very angsty just on COMPLETELY different levels. And yes, I want the trailer...NOW!!


Posted by mnodurft Jul 2nd 2008

ok...but wouldn't it have been cool if warner bros would have mixed it up and destroyed parliament. first off...that would be so like the death eaters to attack a muggle landmark like that and second, what an allusion to history and other literary works.


Posted by phoenix_knight Jul 2nd 2008

uh, NO mnodurft ... the Death Eaters NEVER attacked Parliament... that's crazy, lol! Although i do wonder why they haven't.


Posted by superfish31 Jul 2nd 2008

I hope this means we're getting our English Prime Minister opening.


Posted by DUI_King Jul 2nd 2008

Radcliffe compares HBP to Trainspotting..? really, radcliffe, really? So everyone gets addicted to heroin, harry freaks out in his dormitory when he sees a baby crawling on the roof, and harry runs off with malfoy's drug money? jesus... they ruined the 6th movie..


Posted by phoenix_knight Jul 2nd 2008

OMG DUI_King, THINK ABOUT IT!!! HARRY POTTER INTOXICATES HAGRID AND SLUGHORN ON PURPOSE! TO GET SLUGHORN'S SECRET! IF THAT ISN'T LIKE TRAINSPOTTING, THEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS! LOL GO HBP! ;)


Posted by phoenix_knight Jul 2nd 2008

OMG DUI_King, THINK ABOUT IT!!! HARRY POTTER INTOXICATES HAGRID AND SLUGHORN ON PURPOSE! TO GET SLUGHORN'S SECRET! IF THAT ISN'T LIKE TRAINSPOTTING, THEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS! LOL GO HBP! ;)


Posted by phoenix_knight Jul 2nd 2008

OMG DUI_King, THINK ABOUT IT!!! HARRY POTTER INTOXICATES HAGRID AND SLUGHORN ON PURPOSE! TO GET SLUGHORN'S SECRET! IF THAT ISN'T LIKE TRAINSPOTTING, THEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS! LOL GO HBP! ;)


Posted by claerwen7 Jul 2nd 2008

am i the only one who thinks that their ruining this movie


Posted by snapeward777 Jul 2nd 2008

omg i always pictured it starting with the bridge collapsing and then switching over to the convo between the ministers. sweet!


Posted by Zonkodude76 Jul 2nd 2008

big atttack eh? This should be interesting considering they cut out most of the movie because of that stupid director David Yates who will also probably totally ruin Deathly Hallows. But wtevr, I really don't like how this guy cuts everything out and keeps only minor things in the movie and has just random moments where something important could have been placed in. At least give us a trailer so we have an idea what the movie is going to be like... Fred and George all the way


Posted by alykat95 Jul 2nd 2008

I thought for a second that Yates was talking about the realese of the film not the opening. That he was predicting that the HBP release was going to be big and attackish . . . wow, I really need to grow a brain. But honestly David . . . STOP TALKING ABOUT THE ACTUAL MOVIE AND GIVE US A TRAILER!!!! We are waiting, and I won't give a crap about HBP until the day that this trailer arrives. GRRRR >:(


Posted by alexxx Jul 2nd 2008

only like 16 days until we know if the trailer is really out with dark knight


Posted by trueligth Jul 3rd 2008

I know there was problems in the film, but in what film there are know problems. Now thank God these problems were only minor and now we (the fans) can see the product in the movie. GO HP GO!!! :);)=)


Posted by MagicMaker222 Jul 3rd 2008

i hope it's a good action scene becaue it seems like the rest of the movie is going down the toliet. No harry/ginny kiss...ugh what the hell? That was going to be one of the best parts.


Posted by jedi_anegram Jul 3rd 2008

"Posted by janegallagher 1 day ago Trainspotting, Daniel? Really? I am so curious as to how those two are comparable. Maybe Voldemort is just a metaphor for heroin." I'd like to see how this compares to Trainspotting, too. I've seen Trainspotting, and I have no clue how it parralels HBP (or vice versa). Should be interesting!




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