Harry Potter fans rejoice! Warner Bros is expected to officially announce plans to release the adaptation of the last and final Harry Potter book, split into two separate films. This makes more than perfect sense considering the 36 chapter plus epilogue book is a whopping 759 pages long. Fans have complained that the last two movies which suffered from plot compression. That’s probably because to hardcover releases of Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix ranged from 734 to 896 pages in length.

Warner Bros will release Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I in November 2010, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II six months later in May 2011. Both of the movies will be filmed concurrently. Screenwriter Steve Kloves, who wrote five of the fix films, is hard at work on both screenplays. Director David Yates, who directed both Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince (which began production in September) has already signed on for both sequels. Producer David Heyman explained to the LA Times:

“I swear to you it was born out of purely creative reasons. Unlike every other book, you cannot remove elements of this book. You can remove scenes of Ron playing quidditch from the fifth book, and you can remove Hermione and S.P.E.W. [Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare] and those subplots . . . but with the seventh, that can’t be done.” “The question will be, where do you break it? And how do you make them one but two separate and distinct stories? Do you break it with a moment of suspense or one of resolution? These are the interesting challenges. But each book has presented its challenges.”

The official book synopsis: “It all comes down to this - a final faceoff between good and evil. You plan to pull out all the stops, but every time you solve one mystery, three more evolve. Do you stay the course you started, despite your lack of progress? Do you detour and follow a new lead that may not help? Do you listen to your instincts, or your friends? Lord Voldemort is preparing for battle and so must Harry. With Ron and Hermione at his side, he’s trying to hunt down Voldemort’s Horcruxes, escape danger at every turn, and find a way to defeat evil once and for all. How does it all end?”

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince hits theaters on November 21st 2008.

“哈迷”们开始庆祝吧！华纳不久就会正式对外宣布：公司计划将哈利波特系列的终结篇搬上银幕，并分为两部上映。考虑到小说有36章节，再加上结尾，足足有759页的内容，这个安排最合适不过了。随着精装版的《哈利波特和火焰杯》与《哈利波特和凤凰令》从734页加长到896页，哈迷们抱怨上两部电影的情节受到压缩致使电影质量严重缩水也就不足为奇了。
 
华纳公司计划在2010年的11月发行《哈利波特与死圣（上）》，6个月之后，既2011年的5月再发行《哈利波特与死圣（下）》。两部电影将同步拍摄。编剧史蒂文·克罗维斯已经写了5部哈利波特电影的剧本，现在正埋头苦干于《哈利波特与死圣》上下两集的剧本创作。曾执导《哈利波特与凤凰令》和《哈利波特与混血王子》的导演大卫·耶茨已经签约决定拍摄这两部电影。制片人大卫·海曼向美国洛杉矶时报解释道： 
 
“我发誓，这完全是创作的需求。和其它的书不一样，你不能去除这本书中的任何元素。你可以去掉第一集中罗恩打魁地奇的场景，你可以去掉赫敏的S.P.E.W——家养小精灵权益促进会，你可以去掉那些次要剧情……但在第七部里，却万万不能这样做。”“问题在于，在哪里你把剧情断开？你又如何将两个独立的故事结合成一个？是在悬念产生时切断？或是在真相大白时掐断？这些或许是有趣的挑战，但是每一本书都有它自己的挑战（第七部的挑战就是如何使电影包含完整的剧情）。”
 
这本书的官方摘要是：所有的事情都将导向一个结果，那就是正义与邪恶的最终对决。你打算度过所有的难关，但每次你解开了一个谜团，就会有更多的谜团出现。虽然没有前进，你是否还在开始的路上呢？你是否正走入歧路，引领你走进那无助的境地？你是听从自己的直觉还是朋友的意见？伏地魔和哈利都严正以待，准备战斗。在罗恩和赫敏的帮助下，哈利竭尽全力地去摧毁伏地魔的魂器，化险为夷之余也找出了永远打败邪恶的方法。一切的一切，会如何结束呢？
 
《哈利波特和混血王子》将于2008年11月21日与观众见面。
 

>>>申请口译奖学金