Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One director David Yates explains why the penultimate film in the epic saga shouldn't have actually worked as its own story. Based on the beloved novels by J.K. Rowling, the first movie in the franchise was released in 2001. Yates joined the franchise in 2007 with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, ultimately staying on for all three of the remaining sequels.
"Oh, that's a good question. Probably [Harry Potter and the] Deathly Hallows – Part 1]. The great challenge of that film was it didn't actually have a third act. It kind of ran out of steam halfway through, and Mark [Day - the editor on the final four Potter films] and I would often sit there kind of figuring it out and saying, ‘This movie doesn't have a third act. How are we gonna…? Hang on, this is crazy. It doesn't have a third act.
"So, we noodled Part One to bits to try and feel that the end of the movie had an escalation when, in fact, it's Jazz Hands. [Laughs] There's not much going on at the end in the second half of the movie, and I say that with great– People still say to me, ‘My favorite film is Hallows: Part One, mate. That was so amazing. It felt like a European road movie.’ And I’m going, ‘Yeah, but the work we did in the edit was unbelievable.
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