David Yates to Direct “Half Blood Prince”May 3rd, 2007 in Directors, Movies |
David Yates, who is set to make his Harry Potter series directorial debut July 13, has revealed that he will also be sticking around to film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. In doing so, Yates will be only the second director in the Harry Potter film series to direct more than one of the films.
Chris Columbus kicked off the series by directing the first two films, but since then the series has seen multiple directors. Alfonso Cuaron directed Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and Mike Newell took the reins with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Yates’ Harry Potter premiere takes place July 13 with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which opens only days before the release of the final book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
“I’m doing ‘Half-Blood Prince,’ and I’m doing it because I love the world, I love the characters. I think I have more business with this world and these characters,” said Yates.
The fifth installment in the Harry Potter franchise will star all of the series regulars, including Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson.
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August 7th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
David Yates is the worst person to do HBP. He did an appaling job on OOTP (not the actual film as such, just the way he related to the book, missing out too many key storylines etc. If he does it the same way as OOTP then I will be absolutely gutted.
P.S He wont even bring back Christian Coulson in HBP who was Tom Riddle in COS because he is older than the rest of the actors.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I LOVE HARRY POTTER ADN CAN’T WAIT FOR THE 6TH MOVIE TO COME OUT
June 30th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
i agree with Harry Saxon. I was very dissapoint wth OOTP and he did miss some key point in it and I vry much hope he soedn’t miss it here… Like the KISS and QUIDDITCH….. I luv the HP books and moies, but i think he wanted it to make it dark and tried it to be funny like GOF but that didn’t work…. And I wanted to see Christian Coulson, i think he’s cute….^_^