Harry Potter and the Death Hallow - Part 1

Another incredible instalment of the famous Harry Potter series. Unlike the other movies, this movie will be available in 3D and IMAX which creates he feeling of actually being inside the movie. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a two part movie which is to be released 2010/2011. Production of such a big movie may take a long time, but will make a great ending in the Harry Potter trilogy.

The production of this movie is in two separate parts. Because of the original idea to split the Goblet of Fire, which debuted in 2005. Rowling declined because of how long production would take to create two parts. Splitting the book into two separate movies “allows for an extra hour and a half to celebrate what this franchise has been and do justice to all the words and ideas in the amazing story,” according to Warner Bros. executive Alan F. Horn. An extra part of the movie also calls for lengthy filming. In a recent interview with Senior Cadence Sawyer, when asked “What are your thoughts about the movie having two parts?” She said, “I think its stupid. The gap between the time the two movies are released is long and it might be hard to follow what happened from the last one. I think Warner Bros. just wants to make money.”

Pre-production began on January 26, 2009, while filming began on February 19, 2009. Filming of the movie was at Leavesden Studios, where the previous six movies were filmed. Filming was shot with many hand held cameras because Director David Yates said, “I want to shake things up every time I go into this world. I like experimenting as we go along.” Even though the shooting schedule was set at 250 days, the filming took 478 days to complete. The movie in its entirety was filmed over a one and a half year period throughout the United Kingdom and finished on June 12, 2010. Harry, Ron, and Hermione all openly wept on the last day, which ended their ten years of work on the films. However, during filming things can go wrong. Very wrong.

In the filming of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Harry’s stunt double in the movie was David Holmes. David's spine was damaged when a controlled explosion went wrong and hurled him to the ground during a flying scene for the movie. The stunt the young actor was performing was called the “jerk back” stunt; the most dangerous stunt in the business. A friend states, “It’s a dangerous stunt and David knew that. Most stuntmen get double their daily pay to carry it out. The stunt went terribly wrong and David was thrown so far that he missed all of the safety mats. He hit the ground very hard.” Doctors have now told him he will remain confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

All of this for the first part of the last instalment of Harry Potter. The development and filming of the movie takes many many days and puts actors in harms way sometimes. All for one movie. Though ten years of filming the David knew it was a dangerous stunt. But his dedication for the release of the movie led him in doing so. This movie took forever to release and some actors literally broke bones for the release. I hope you all will see it, the anticipation for the release is building.