The Herald recently conducted an
interview with
David Yates, the director for '
Order of the Phoenix'. He talks about the new Potter project and
David Heyman comments on Yates' directing style.
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"I'm out here to work on the screenplay with the writer and have a little chat with the people at the studio about how we are doing and what we are planning," says Yates with the kind of understatement that only a Brit could pull off in Hollywood.
"Now, I'm going to New York to meet a cameraman I'm quite interested in," he says. "I'll be back in the UK next week. It's normally not as mad as this."
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Yates's debut was inspired by another of his heroes, David Lean. The Tichbourne Claimant bears a resemblance to Lean's Dickens adaptations, Oliver Twist and Great Expectations, and the gothic styling and period detail of those films may well inform the next-but-one Harry Potter adventure.
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The Order of the Phoenix's producer, David Heyman, describes Yates as "a director with a keen visual sense who fills each frame with humanity and compassion for his characters".
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Yates says: "David Heyman called me and asked if I'd be interested, he had been following the work I'd been doing over the years. I love the books. So, I read the fifth one and I thought that there was some great stuff. Stuff about celebrating being different, that's what the fifth book did for me. I'm having a fantastic time just as we're starting out."
Yates also directed the BBC drama,
The Girl in the Café , a part of the
Make Poverty History campaign, that was aired on Saturday night.
Source:
HPANA