While I wish all filmmakers would use the same logic as Ball, I know that Hollywood is a long way from accepting the fact that yes, there can be too much of a good thing. Four? I think there's something off about four." Yet, there is hope on the horizon since the director behind The Maze Runner franchise, Wes Ball, told Digital Spy that he has no plans to adapt James Dashner's final book into two movies, saying, "I think three is the number beginning, middle, end, that's it.
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However, it's with a heavy heart that while I thought Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part Two wrapped up the movie franchise excellently, the filmmakers created a monster by splitting the last book into two films - and it's not a monster that can be defeated with a wand and a spell. I have the Harry Potter film franchise to thank for a lot of things (not as many things as I have to thank the book franchise for, but still). Despite the hefty weight and word count of Breaking Dawn, Stephanie Myers' world was never as robust as Rowling's, so the final book could have been - and should have been - only one film. However, the movie that really suffered from the book being split into two was The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 since there was not enough content to justify the first movie standing on its own.
To be fair, the fake battle was far more exciting than what had happened in the book, so it did make for a more amusing movie experience. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn had no right being broken into two movies considering that the second movie had to fabricate an entire battle scene that wasn't in the books to fill the time.
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And the first franchise to follow in Harry Potter's footsteps proves my point that not every book has enough substance to sustain two films since Twilight was the series that immediately jumped on this two films bandwagon. not being "unhappy" about getting more films out of the lucrative franchise is what most likely has fueled this new phenomenon that the last movie adaptation of a successful book series needs to be milked for all its worth - even when the content does not warrant two feature-length films. Steve even said: "You know what? If you really wanted to push this, you could get three films out of it." He rang after a few weeks and said: "I can't get this into one movie unless you want it to be four or five hours long." I don't suppose Warner Bros was unhappy about getting two films. As Harry Potter producer David Barron told the Guardian: When we came to adapt Deathly Hallows, we thought: "Well, the DNA is one book to one film," so we sent Steve away to adapt it. While Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows isn't the longest Harry Potter book in the franchise, there was a lot of ground to cover. But if you find something that can engage them, they are the most ferocious followers." As he told USA Today, "The tendency is to think kids have a very short attention span. The argument that longer films would challenge children's attention spans too much never sat right with me - and Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, agreed. I wanted epic-length films for every Harry Potter book since The Lord of the Rings trilogy was proving at the same time as the first three Harry Potter movies that people were willing to sit in a movie theater for three hours or more for great storytelling. However, the joy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows getting two movies quickly turned to disappointment since it marked the beginning of the horrifying trend that exists today: Adapting the final book of a series into multiple movies - even when the book is not deserving of such an honor. finally had accepted that Rowling's words were deserving of more screen time to accurately tell the end of her story. After years of disappointing running times for the lengthy (but quick reading!) Harry Potter books, Warner Bros. Yet, the only Harry Potter book to be split into two movies was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. With over one million words in the Harry Potter series, I wanted the film versions to be as long as possible to keep every magical detail of J.K.
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