15 July 2009 / REUTERS, NEW YORK
The sixth "Harry Potter" film opens on Wednesday and is likely to be another hit for the boy wizard series, but with filming started on the finale, British director David Yates says "you haven't seen anything yet."
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" has received rave reviews and sold out hundreds of theaters for its opening day. Based on author British author J.K. Rowling's seven novels, the franchise has so far raked $4.5 billion worldwide. The series finale is being split into two movies for which filming began five months ago and is due to finish in about a year. "People are being very kind about what they're seeing in ‘Half-Blood Prince' and I just think you haven't seen anything yet," Yates, who directed "Harry Potter" five and six and is helming the final two, said in an interview. "[Part one] is like a road movie, refugees being chased by all these people who want to kill them. It's quite intense," he said. "Then the final film is like this big opera, big epic, it's got more set pieces than any of the others. ... It's a real rollercoaster, but with a really oddly uplifting end."
