'Deathly Hallows' Will Leave Fans Eager For Finale
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" chronicles the chaos that engulfs the wizardry world as evil Lord Voldemort seizes power and sets out to destroy Harry.
The film, which premiered Thursday night before its theatrical release next week, is an epic 2 1/2-hour tease that should leave fans salivating for "Part 2," the final "Potter" movie, which does not arrive until next July.
Fans may leave frustrated that they have to wait eight months for the finale. But the seventh and final novel in J.K. Rowling's fantasy series needed to be broken into two parts, said Daniel Radcliffe, who stars as the teen wizard Harry.
"I was always very much in favor of it being two parts, and I think most people were, simply because we all realized there was no way you could do justice to the book and really capture the story in one film," Radcliffe said.
In the first six books, there was secondary action that could be cut from the movies, "themes which, while exciting and while fans love them, simply don't add anything to the main thrust of the story," Radcliffe said. "In the seventh book, there is very little extraneous stuff that's not actually contributing heavily to the main plot line."
"Part 1" sends Harry and pals Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint) outside their usual haunts at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. They're in perpetual danger as they hit the road to hide from Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) and his followers, the Death Eaters, while simultaneously seeking to find and destroy magical artifacts that are the key to Voldemort's dark powers.
"It's kind of an edgy road movie, where these three iconic characters, who we've always seen in this magical place called Hogwarts, are thrust out into the big, bad world and have to fend for themselves and survive," said David Yates, who directed both parts of "Deathly Hallows" as well as the fifth and sixth "Harry Potter" films.
"As much as we love Hogwarts, we needed a fresh environment. We needed to be out of our comfort zones, definitely," Watson said.
And what's Voldemort aiming to get out of all of this?
"Everyone knows, don't they? They read all the books, don't they? They all know what he's up to: world domination, total power," Fiennes said.
The story tests the bonds among Harry, Hermione and Ron as jealousy, suspicion, bickering and feelings of betrayal undermine their relationship.
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