Thank you to FirstShowing for letting us know about their interview with Harry Potter Producer David Heyman, who spoke for 40 minutes about the Harry Potter films, including Deathly Hallows.
You can watch the interviews here.
In regards to why Deathly Hallows- Part I does not have a 3D release, Heyman said -
The idea came from the studio … We said, “Let’s see what we can do.” We began to work on it with IMAX. They’re very good partners, they’ve done a lot of 3D for IMAX – this is very different. But they were great partners. We looked at in all around 250 shots. It was interesting. Scenes that I thought would not work actually worked quite beautifully. For example, the dance worked really well. It wasn’t shot with longer lenses.
This film actually had a lot more long lens shots than the next film, and long lenses rarely look good with 3D. You’re compressing and yet you’re expanding – it’s odd. So the dancing actually went really beautifully. You highlighted their loneliness within this tent. We didn’t make the tent massive but you were able to isolate them, and that was really beautiful. The way to approach 3D, and the way we did it when we were working on it, was as a character. How do you enhance the atmosphere, enhance the storytelling.
What happened on HP7, Part 1 was we realized we didn’t’ have enough time to do it right. We could’ve done it, but it would’ve been crap. No one wants that. Why do it now? Why screw up now? The studio were pushing, but when we got to the point where it became clear that we weren’t going to be able to achieve the quality that we wanted we had a very adult conversation with them and said, “Look , this is a problem.” And they heard us. They supported us. And we abandoned it.
Part 2 is different. We’ve got more time. We’ve begun the process already. It’s also a very different film. It’s ore of an epic film – a lot more wide angle lenses. And 3D works best with that.
And about the split of the final two films:
We shifted where it ends. We had an initial discussion, this is where we ended it, where it was in the film. Then we revised that because we were concerned. Something happened at the end which was similar to what happened in 6 and 5: the loss of a character – the death of a character. So we then moved it back where we had it earlier in the film.
But then when it came time to cutting it, we put it back to the original thought – not where it is in the script, but where we originally thought about it. And David added this additional scene of Voldemort getting the Elder wand. Because it gave a sense of emotional closure. Or the completion of something emotional. And then with the wand you had a sense of, "Ah, this is what the challenge is. This is what we're going to in the next film.”
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