This series, part of our Forever Young Family & Children’s Series, celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Harry Potter book series.
Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows is the grand finale to the tale of the eponymous young wizard. The decision to create two films out of the 600 page book was controversial, but ultimately it was a fitting end to the epic franchise.
Director David Yates spoke to Collider about the decision to split the final book into two films: “It was a decision that really came about between Steve Kloves (screenwriter of the Potter films), myself and the Davids (in regards to producers David Barron and David Heyman). We all sat down and agreed it was probably an interesting and cool thing to do. It was a creative choice rather than a studio choice. I mean [the studio was] delighted that we were discussing it but we felt we wanted to […] make two very slightly different films. A kind of melancholic, haunting first film like a chase thriller road movie. Something where you see these kids and their innocence break and then I wanted to make a bigger classic fantasy film with dragons. They’re both slightly different movies but they’re from the same book. The thing that ties them together is just linear narrative that runs through the middle but ultimately they’re two very different movies.”
