Kloves said, “I had a remarkable ability to anticipate events, because I swam in the narrative for 10 years.” For example, he said, he always suspected that behind the oily nastiness of Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) lurked a man of deep bravery with his own lonely integrity. For the previous movies he had to use his best judgment about what was yet to come.Īfter a while, Mr. Kloves said, because it was the first time he knew how Ms.
Writing the script for “Deathly Hallows” was in some ways easier than writing the earlier scripts, Mr. Heyman said the scene had been inserted to show the two friends’ deep affection for each other and to make the point that even in the midst of everything, they are still kids.) But the story, as ever, remains faithful to Ms. (The scene is merely alluded to in the book.) Some big things have been left out Harry’s birthday party, for instance and some small things added, like a scene in which Hermione and Harry, bereft and depressed in the wilderness after Ron walks out in a huff, spontaneously dance together as music plays on their radio. Owl-eyed Harry Potter scholars will spot small divergences from the book even at the outset, when Harry bids farewell to his hateful relatives, the Dursleys (a moment of sympathy from Dudley, Harry’s cousin, was cut from the film), and when Hermione, heartbreakingly, protects her parents by casting a spell that erases herself from their memories.
All that I ask is that you be true to the characters.’ And I believe I’ve fulfilled that request.” “The first day I met her, she said: ‘I know the movies can’t be the books. “But as Steve began to break the book down, it became clear that there was no way to tell this story in one film and to have the film make sense and do the book any justice.” (And, of course, the decision allows Warner Brothers to spin out the franchise for one last probable box-office bonanza.) Though expectations for the finale are even higher than usual, the filmmakers say their approach has essentially stayed the same throughout the series. “When the idea was initially mooted, I was, to put it mildly, uncertain,” said David Heyman, one of the key producers, speaking of the decision to make two movies from one book. Part 2, which builds to a final battle between good and evil inside the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, is scheduled for release in the summer of 2011. Part 1, to be released on Friday, covers the first half of the novel, a kind of prolonged road trip in which Harry, Ron and Hermione become nomads in hiding, sorting out their feelings for one another while eluding capture and searching for magical objects that must be destroyed before Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) can die. More than 700 pages long and crammed with quick-moving plot developments leading to an apocalyptic finale, the book ultimately proved too dense to make into a single film. Kloves is the screenwriter for all but one of the movies, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.”) But “Deathly Hallows” was perhaps the most difficult of all. Rowling’s seventh and final volume, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” came out in 2007, he said, he knew the characters almost as thoroughly as she did herself.Īdapting the stories for film has been a delicate process all along, as faithfulness to books adored by millions has always had to be balanced with the conventions (and length) of Hollywood blockbusters. Kloves has immersed himself so deeply in the world of Harry Potter that by the time J. The stories have become progressively darker and more complicated. The three central characters Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint) have grown up on screen, enduring the twin horrors of Voldemort and adolescence before our very eyes. A LOT has happened since the screenwriter Steve Kloves began working on his adaptation of the very first Harry Potter book, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” in the late 1990s.
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