Trailer Tuesday: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Sorry, no trailer to embed today - Warner Brothers and YouTube have yanked them all down for some ridiculous reason (It's a trailer for God's sake! In terms of a movie you want the word out there as much as possible!)
Anyway, to watch the HD streaming trailer of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, click here.
I'm always excited for a new Harry Potter film - especially after I enjoyed the most recent film, Order of the Phoenix, so much. The big selling point of Half-Blood Prince is that the film delves into the dark, disturbing back-story of the series villain, Lord Voldemort.
And as an added bonus, Order of the Phoenix director David Yates is back at the helm for the second time, and should be directing the last 2 films as well (the seventh and final Potter book, Deathly Hallows, is to be split into 2 movies to round off the saga).
I'm probably slightly more familiar with Half-Blood Prince than a number of Potter fans, having re-read the novel relatively recently (last year), in preparation for Deathly Hallows. Admittedly the first time I read the book I thought it was largely an inert project, with JK Rowling using it to fill in some missing narrative gaps, take a breath, and just, well, stall, in preparation for the balls-to-the-wall action of the last book.
The second time I read it though, I realised the book's potential as a film. Half-Blood Prince is probably the most leisurely paced of the Potter series, and after the disjointed highlights package that was the Goblet of Fire film, I'd take slow and measured over frantic and feverish any day.
Of course, we're dealing with Hollywood here, and if there aren't enough action scenes in the source material, well, then the studios will invent and insert them into the script anyway. If you, like me, were confused by the sequence in the trailer that shows Ginny wandering around in fields of wheat, it turns our memories aren't failing. That scene IS new and did not appear in the novel. Half-Blood Prince's producer confirms in this interview that there will be a Death Eater attack on the home of the Weasley family - to show the audience what Harry is only hearing about while he's at school.
Personally I'm not opposed to the introduction of such a scene. I just hope that the filmmakers don't go out of their way to clutter an adaptation of what is probably the smoothest flowing of the Potter narratives.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is set for release in South Africa on 5 December.
Anyway, to watch the HD streaming trailer of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, click here.
I'm always excited for a new Harry Potter film - especially after I enjoyed the most recent film, Order of the Phoenix, so much. The big selling point of Half-Blood Prince is that the film delves into the dark, disturbing back-story of the series villain, Lord Voldemort.
And as an added bonus, Order of the Phoenix director David Yates is back at the helm for the second time, and should be directing the last 2 films as well (the seventh and final Potter book, Deathly Hallows, is to be split into 2 movies to round off the saga).
I'm probably slightly more familiar with Half-Blood Prince than a number of Potter fans, having re-read the novel relatively recently (last year), in preparation for Deathly Hallows. Admittedly the first time I read the book I thought it was largely an inert project, with JK Rowling using it to fill in some missing narrative gaps, take a breath, and just, well, stall, in preparation for the balls-to-the-wall action of the last book.
The second time I read it though, I realised the book's potential as a film. Half-Blood Prince is probably the most leisurely paced of the Potter series, and after the disjointed highlights package that was the Goblet of Fire film, I'd take slow and measured over frantic and feverish any day.
Of course, we're dealing with Hollywood here, and if there aren't enough action scenes in the source material, well, then the studios will invent and insert them into the script anyway. If you, like me, were confused by the sequence in the trailer that shows Ginny wandering around in fields of wheat, it turns our memories aren't failing. That scene IS new and did not appear in the novel. Half-Blood Prince's producer confirms in this interview that there will be a Death Eater attack on the home of the Weasley family - to show the audience what Harry is only hearing about while he's at school.
Personally I'm not opposed to the introduction of such a scene. I just hope that the filmmakers don't go out of their way to clutter an adaptation of what is probably the smoothest flowing of the Potter narratives.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is set for release in South Africa on 5 December.
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Also, Slughorn looks terrible. They've really missed on the last two "big" castings. In my mind, it would take a lot to screw this up, but it seems like the movie execs are doing their best already.