7th HP film/director chosen?

[Eustace_Scrubb]

Valerie wrote:
>
> Speaking of whether or not there will be a 7th film made...I just  
> saw this online. There's the link if you want to read the full 
> blurb.

> Shyamalan has a sixth sense about Potter film
> 
> ONE of Hollywood's leading directors yesterday staked a claim to 
> direct the last of the Harry Potter films, promising to make a  
> darker product with "serious" conflict at its heart.
> MNight Shyamalan, director of 1999 box office hit The Sixth Sense,  
> said he wanted to translate the last instalment in the Potter saga  
> to the big screen. JK Rowling is still writing the seventh and final  
> Harry Potter novel, but has revealed that two main characters will 
> die.
> http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=1043542006
> 
> PS. So, who do you think is going to die? Do you think JKR really 
> admitted that?
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Now Eustace_Scrubb:
Interesting.  The question is will Shyamalan still want to make the
movie _after_ he finds out what's in the book?

The Scotsman article misinterpreted JKR's comments about death in the
7th book.  She did not say that "two main characters" will die.  She
said that two characters who she hadn't expected to die will end up
doing so and that her husband gasped when told the identity of one of
them.  So I suppose that might be a main character.  (Or maybe JKR's
hubby really likes bubble gum and couldn't believe she'd kill off
Mr.Droobles?<g>) She also said that one character who she had planned
to kill off will actually survive.

I'm afraid this doesn't tell us much about the actual death toll or
whether there's "serious conflict" at the heart of the book.  Both
JKR's comments and Shyamalan's are mainly aimed at keeping themselves,
the book and the eventual movie in the public eye...and they're
succeeding quite well.

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb