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connielane) wrote2008-01-14 02:08 pm
connielane) wrote2008-01-14 02:08 pm
I know I'm in the minority on this, but...
Eeeee! Kloves is writing the DH script! Or ... I should say, he will be writing it once the strike is over.
As to some of the other rumors that have been going around...
- As you can see if you follow the link above, WB says there has been no decision made about splitting DH into two films. I'm of two minds about the issue myself. On the one hand, I agree with Quint of AICN that it would be nice to send the series out with a bang, and a two-parter would be a special way to do that, especially if they took the Matrix approach and released them within a few months of each other. On the other hand, where would they cut it? Ron's departure is too soon, captured and taken to the Malfoy Manor is too late, and everything between is too soft. I don't think there's *so* much they could excise from the book. Everyone keeps talking about long periods of camping where they don't do anything, but ... um, that is not how I remember it. Some of the details of time passing could be cut, but that doesn't amount to as much as people might think, not to mention all the information that is gathered during that time. And then you've got to think about the final battle, which doesn't take up much page space, but would HAVE to be frigging epic, else it would be laughable to an audience that still remembers Peter Jackson's renditions of Helm's Deep, Minas Tirith, and Mordor.
- Okay, so there are also rumors that Katie Bell has been cut from HBP, and that Cho is going to be the one who gets the cursed necklace. Cho running into Death Eater trouble in Hogsmeade sounds suspiciously like a certain Totally Unbiased Fanfic to me, but then so did Hermione being tortured at Malfoy Manor (ZOMG, JKR and Steve Kloves are reading our LJs!). This news seems a bit strange coming only a few weeks after we heard that Katie Bell had indeed been cast. But then ... movie!Harry's world of acquaintances is necessarily smaller than book!Harry's. As much as I would have loved to have seen Katie Bell, people who haven't read the books are just not going to know who she is, and they won't be as invested in her as they will Cho. One wonders how this will fit into the unresolved issue of Harry/Cho and the whole Veritaserum thing from OOTP, but ... we'll see.
- Also new to Rumorsville is the reported scene where Ron helps win the Quidditch Cup and Lavender runs up to give him a victory snog. I'm not sure why this is bad news, though. I really, really don't think this is going to overshadow the "sunlit days." I mean, dudes, they are ALREADY showing us H/G stuff, which makes me think there's more than enough shippy goodness to go around. Looks to me as if Kloves wanted to make up for Ron not getting to have his moment in OOTP (Hah! He does NOT hate Ron.) Yes, yes, Harry is supposed to be in detention from slicing Draco up, but this is one of those things that was very likely moved around. I wouldn't be surprised if "Sectumsempra" was moved a little closer to the climax, for several reasons, not the least of which would be to put Draco's "I can't do it" closer to the scene where he's actually having to do it. The other thing this is changing, of course, is that Ron and Lavender seem to still be together at the time of the QC, when in the book they had broken up already. But who knows what this will actually be like in the context of the film (or that Lavender running up to kiss Ron is the same as a lingering scene of them snogging, which is not likely, given that we should have seen plenty of that already at that point).
- And in smaller rumor news, there is a report that Lavender is supposedly wearing glasses. This is the kind of detail that a)always gets blown way out of proportion (PANSY'S STRAPPY DRESS HERMIONE'S PINK DRESS OMG!) and/or b)typically turns out to be not what we thought. I have a hard time imagining her in glasses, but maybe Jessie wears them in RL and this rumorist saw her between takes.
Anyway, my point is that it's WAY too early to be passing judgment on stuff like this. Rumors like these have been a presence throughout all of the films, so why should this one be different? And who's to say that any of this - except the Kloves news, which comes from WB (sorry, anti-Kloves folks) - is more than just a rumor to begin with?
As to some of the other rumors that have been going around...
- As you can see if you follow the link above, WB says there has been no decision made about splitting DH into two films. I'm of two minds about the issue myself. On the one hand, I agree with Quint of AICN that it would be nice to send the series out with a bang, and a two-parter would be a special way to do that, especially if they took the Matrix approach and released them within a few months of each other. On the other hand, where would they cut it? Ron's departure is too soon, captured and taken to the Malfoy Manor is too late, and everything between is too soft. I don't think there's *so* much they could excise from the book. Everyone keeps talking about long periods of camping where they don't do anything, but ... um, that is not how I remember it. Some of the details of time passing could be cut, but that doesn't amount to as much as people might think, not to mention all the information that is gathered during that time. And then you've got to think about the final battle, which doesn't take up much page space, but would HAVE to be frigging epic, else it would be laughable to an audience that still remembers Peter Jackson's renditions of Helm's Deep, Minas Tirith, and Mordor.
- Okay, so there are also rumors that Katie Bell has been cut from HBP, and that Cho is going to be the one who gets the cursed necklace. Cho running into Death Eater trouble in Hogsmeade sounds suspiciously like a certain Totally Unbiased Fanfic to me, but then so did Hermione being tortured at Malfoy Manor (ZOMG, JKR and Steve Kloves are reading our LJs!). This news seems a bit strange coming only a few weeks after we heard that Katie Bell had indeed been cast. But then ... movie!Harry's world of acquaintances is necessarily smaller than book!Harry's. As much as I would have loved to have seen Katie Bell, people who haven't read the books are just not going to know who she is, and they won't be as invested in her as they will Cho. One wonders how this will fit into the unresolved issue of Harry/Cho and the whole Veritaserum thing from OOTP, but ... we'll see.
- Also new to Rumorsville is the reported scene where Ron helps win the Quidditch Cup and Lavender runs up to give him a victory snog. I'm not sure why this is bad news, though. I really, really don't think this is going to overshadow the "sunlit days." I mean, dudes, they are ALREADY showing us H/G stuff, which makes me think there's more than enough shippy goodness to go around. Looks to me as if Kloves wanted to make up for Ron not getting to have his moment in OOTP (Hah! He does NOT hate Ron.) Yes, yes, Harry is supposed to be in detention from slicing Draco up, but this is one of those things that was very likely moved around. I wouldn't be surprised if "Sectumsempra" was moved a little closer to the climax, for several reasons, not the least of which would be to put Draco's "I can't do it" closer to the scene where he's actually having to do it. The other thing this is changing, of course, is that Ron and Lavender seem to still be together at the time of the QC, when in the book they had broken up already. But who knows what this will actually be like in the context of the film (or that Lavender running up to kiss Ron is the same as a lingering scene of them snogging, which is not likely, given that we should have seen plenty of that already at that point).
- And in smaller rumor news, there is a report that Lavender is supposedly wearing glasses. This is the kind of detail that a)always gets blown way out of proportion (
Anyway, my point is that it's WAY too early to be passing judgment on stuff like this. Rumors like these have been a presence throughout all of the films, so why should this one be different? And who's to say that any of this - except the Kloves news, which comes from WB (sorry, anti-Kloves folks) - is more than just a rumor to begin with?
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What do you mean, one of the biggest??
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