


Despite having to wade through the weaker source material, Yates made key improvements that improved the film’s pacing, tone, and focus. Rowling packs the story with detail, making it the longest read at 766 pages. Compared to the beloved first four books, Order of the Phoenix is an overlong slog. Yates had to live up to these high expectations, and he was also saddled with adapting one of the weakest installments in the novel series.

Mike Newell’s The Goblet of Fire changed the tone of the saga although the film begins with a sense of familiarity, the characters are thrust into crisis upon the return of the Dark Lord Voldemort ( Ralph Fiennes).

Christopher Columbus developed a whimsical sense of wonder with the family-friendly films The Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets, but Alfonso Cuaron took the series in a darker direction with The Prisoner of Azkaban. Rowling’s universe 2016’s The Legend of Tarzan was the only non-Wizarding World film he’s directed in the 21st Century.Īlthough he’s now a veteran, Yates was given a very difficult task with his first endeavor, as the franchise's previous filmmakers had all crafted a unique take on the source material. By this point, Yates rarely works on projects that aren’t tied into J.K. In addition to the first two Fantastic Beasts films, Yates also directed the last four entries in the core Harry Potter series, beginning with 2007’s Order of the Phoenix. The entire series is set to be directed by David Yates, who is no stranger to the Wizarding World. That includes the deleted scenes found on the home media releases, clips from behind the scenes documentaries and trailers, as well as scenes from the script.Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledorehits theaters soon, and the Harry Potter prequel is the third entry in what was conceived as a five film franchise. In this post, we are going through the deleted and unreleased scenes from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The deleted scenes found on the DVD and Blu-ray is 11 minutes in total, meaning that there are over 30 minutes of unreleased footage from the film. In an interview with Empire Magazine the director David Yates said “The book’s huge, but it actually distils quite easily… That said, I’ve shot a movie that’s probably over three hours, so I’ll have to lose 45 minutes in the edit”. The movie was directed by David Yates and the screenplay was written by Michael Goldberg. It is the shortest Harry Potter film at 2 hours and 18 minutes, despite being adapted from the largest book in the series. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was released in cinemas in 2007.
