Long time from book one to last harry potter movie. why so long?

Question

al.ready had one actor die and replaced Sir richard harris

Answer 1

A movie takes a very long time to make.

in the first movie especially, you can see the way harry potter ages from the beginning of the film to the end, even though the time set in the movie is only one year.

Answer 2

'Cause it takes longer to make a movie than it does a book.

Answer 3

Money.  They can make more money if they put out one movie per year then if they put out a few movies each year.  With LOTR, the movies had been filmed simultaneously so could have been released one after the other or at the same time but the movie company wanted to make as much money with each movie so they staggered them one per year.  And they made a mint.  The current HP movie (HBP) has been delayed because of the recent writers' strike which put a lot of things behind schedule.  At one point I'd heard the HBP was being made into 2 movies because there was so much to cover but don't know if they still intend to put each part out one per year or, because of the delay this year, they will be releasing both parts next year.  If they don't hurry, the actors are going to be all grown and have kids of their own.

Answer 4

ask the harry potter director  

Answer 5

Good movies take a long time to make, like a year each.

Answer 6

I think that its because all the actors have gotten enough fame to be able to get roles in other films.  Thats why its taking them a little longer becuase they have to wait until the others are done filming their otherstuff.... or maybe its just taking forever because they're doing a lot of graphics and stuff

Answer 7

It takes a long time to make a movie and get it ready to show if you want it to come out right.  Also, each movie is a year apart like the books with the exception of the next one that will take 1 1/2 years.  The reason they are waiting as additional 6 months is because summer movies make more money.

Answer 8

Well for many reasons, the book just recently came out like two years ago. Pretty fast for an adaptation don't you think?

You'll just have to wait.

Answer 9

Because WB wants all harry potter fans to send them hatemail.

Because they want more money, even though they have enough to put Africa out of poverty.

Because WB wants all harry potter fans in depression.

Because I, and along with other millions of fans want the movie to be released in November, like it was supposed to in the first place!

And we're all going to boycott WB, muaha.

Answer 10

Because movies take longer to make than books?

Answer 11

are you talking about when the first book came out or the first movie?

if it's the first book, it's mostly because they didn't make the first movie until the third book was already published and the fourth in major progress.

if you mean the first movie until the last movie it's because they can't make each movie within a year of each other. they usually put the movies out ever 1 and 1/2-2years because the actors need brakes and they want them to grow up a little for each different movie.

Answer 12

I think the movie is already finished they just want to have a summer release.

Answer 13

i dunno

Answer 14

because it takes alot of time to make movies (especially supernatural ones)