Who Should Direct Harry Potter 7?

Whether you like it or not, Harry Potter franchise is drawing to an end. It started in 2001 and after a long journey, we are through with five installments. Half-Blood Prince would be in theatres by November, 2008 and sometime in 2010, Deathly Hallows would be ringing box-office registers.

Harry Potter films have been directed by 4 different directors.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone-Christopher Columbus

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets-Christopher Columbus

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban-Alfonso Cuaron

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire-Mike Newell

Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix-David Yates

Half Blood Prince is in the hands of David Yates himself and so, he would probably be riding high with delight at the moment. But the important question is-who should direct Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?

Being probably the best book of the series, Deathly Hallows deserves something special. It has a classic epic sense to it. The best director, I feel, would be Peter Jackson. He's the master of such movies. He's a master of fitting finales. What he did for Lord of the Rings is a testimony to this fact? He can transform the entire appeal of the series with just one movie.

Warner Bros. should request him for this and try and get him on board at least for the final installment. In the future blogs I would enquire into why he can make that movie special?

The Climax Syndrome

The Harry Potter directors seem to be in some sort of a fix altogether. I hope they come out of it by November 2008 when Harry Potter 6 is scheduled to come to the theatres.

Each time they are on the road to make a great movie, the climax strikes them in the face and spoils the show. Post Chamber of Secrets they (HP directors) have never managed to give an outstanding climax.

In Prisoner of Azkaban, they devastated it all by rushing the climax like an avalanche and all of it stormed out by burning a hole through Box-Office sales. In Goblet of Fire, it all went even more haywire. Probably, the best climax book-wise was made into a kind of on-stage drama. What should've been a stunning display of fear and chills looked like a formality. The Death Eaters looked like a bunch of fools. Not to mention, Voldemort appeared more of a lunatic and not a Dark Lord.

But in my view, the worst blunder was made by Mr David Yates. The Order of the Phoenix which is a book of more talks and less action had some good hard-to-find action in the climax. But Mr Director, after making a fantastic movie for the better part, decided to fall into the syndrome once more. It was like the budget had all of a sudden finished. Scenes looked slashed and un-accounted for and what could've been the best Hollywood climax ever was rolled into a ten-minute affair and next time you saw closely, the credits were rolling on the screen. What a way to end a movie???

Now that's why I call this a syndrome because it repeats again and again. Only Great Chris Columbus contrived to save himself from this charge. The climax of Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets were better than what the book said and they greatly added to the film's grandeur and it's identity as a work.

Now, two more installments remain in the series and I hope the Directors come to their senses a little bit. A last two should at least be better than the first two.