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“Phoenix” director signs for second “Potter”
“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” director David Yates tells SCI FI Wire that he’ll be back to direct the sixth film in the bespectacled wizard’s cinematic journey, too.
“I am doing Half-Blood Prince, and I’m doing it because I love the world, I love the characters,” the award-winning director confirmed. “I think I have more business with this world and these characters.”
Yates was brought on to the franchise to helm Phoenix, which has political overtones and deals in part with a rebellion at Hogwarts led by Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint).
“I’ve made a kind of tonal shift with the fifth film, which I want to continue and develop into the sixth film,” Yates said. “And I can see the fifth story evolving into the sixth story in a really interesting way. So I’m on a journey with this material and this world, and I’m keen to complete it.”
“Half-Blood Prince” is in preproduction with an eye to a November 2008 release.
