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David Yates to go for the "Harry Potter" hat-trick?

Wed 20 Feb 10:32 AM

British director David Yates, the man behind that bespectacled young wizard's latest adventure in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix", and currently in production on "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", is clearly having a ball with this sorcery malarkey. According to the children's author Lois Lowry (author of "The Giver"), via her official Blog, David Yates will be returning to helm the seventh, and last film, in the "Harry Potter" canon - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows":

"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. Maybe the opening of this film could be held simultaneously with my celebration-of-life service after I succumb to old age? Or the producers will decide to get a different director. Stand by. But without holding your breath".

Sour grapes anyone? Anyway this is still very much in the realm of one author's ravings and as such should not be taken as the last line on the matter. Warner Brothers has yet to issue out an official statement regarding "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", which has been penned in for a 2010 release.