Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. If you're a Potter-head like I am you've most likely been dying to hear who is going to helm the final movie of the series, adapt the great book. The word hasn't changed from the early rumors. I think they're still breaking that book in two and releasing it as 2 movies. I love that idea as a way to squeeze in every last detail of the book (minus hour 3 of the Harry and Hermione camping trip, of course).

Some might be disappointed with this... I myself have some concerns, but I'll get to that after the rumor:

Ho guys,

With big names like Spielberg and Guillermo del Toro being rumored for taking the director's chair for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, many of us were getting excited, could Cauron even come back?? The name we're hearing today is decidedly... underwhelming. The news comes from a seemingly random source, author Lois Lowry's blog. She is the author of THE GIVER which has been waiting to go into production for some time now, and it looks like she will have to wait a little longer:

"Bad news from The Giver Movie front. DAVID YATES, the director currently working on the next Harry Potter film, was supposed to begin The Giver film next. But he has just decided he wants to do the final Harry Potter first, thereby postponing The Giver by several years."

(Link: http://loislowry.typepad.com/lowry_updates/2008/02/country-matters.html)

So there you have it... David Yates... again.

-Bean

I like David Yates, I loved the realism he brought to ORDER OF THE PHOENIX and I greatly anticipate his adaptation of HALF-BLOOD PRINCE, one of my favorites of the series. I'm not in the camp that hates what he brings to the movies, but I will say that one of my favorite things about the Potter films was that they changed gears every movie or two. That has kept the series fresh.

Maybe when we see HALF-BLOOD PRINCE we'll see that Yates himself is changing things up. Right now this is second hand information that could be an assumption made on the part of the author of THE GIVER. Probably not, but it's not written in stone as far as I know. What're your thoughts?