Many events have unfold these recent few weeks. Like the new trailer of part one, which many describe as epic or awesome. If you haven't seen the new trailer you can watch it below.



After watching the trailer and reading some of the comments I really wondered if it will be so epic. With a budget of US$250,000,000 for part one (Source) it isn't a factor of not having any funds to make an epic movie. However it is exactly the same budget they had for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.



Then why do I question if it will be epic, it will be 2 parts and 3D.

The reason can be summarized by the following points:

1. Most of the previous HP movies' trailers were epic, its a marketing gimmick to get more viewers.
2. The actual HP movies answered few questions and contained less events than the books themselves. So among the movies there were massive gaps of information that was pinnacle to the core of the canon, these were blatantly left out.
3. The movies sucked versus the books, like most movies that originate from books.
4. Watching the trailer, there are already changes to the core canon.
5. Every book since the 2nd one contained Dobby, its ironic that no HP movie since Chamber of the Secrets contained Dobby except the one in which he dies.

"Years ago, we briefly — and seriously — considered doing Goblet of Fire as two films. So this concept is not altogether new. As for Deathly Hallows, I intuited — almost from the first moments I began reading it and certainly once I'd finished — that to realise the story in a single film was going to be a tall order. Others in 'the group' felt similarly. So the idea of two films began to get kicked around as early as late summer of 2007. We didn't take it lightly. But ultimately everyone felt that despite the challenges it would present, it was the most sound creative decision.
I'm sure some will think we're crazy. My wife looked at me cross-eyed when I first mentioned it. But I'm really excited about it because it should allow us to stretch a bit with the characters and give them the proper send-off. The story is highly emotional and those moments deserve time to breathe. And, personally, I feel we owe it to Jo [Rowling] — in order to preserve the integrity of the work — and the fans — for their loyalty all these years — to give them the best and most complete experience possible."

-Scriptwriter Steve Kloves, on the decision to split the final Harry Potter novel into a two-part film.

Haha, so now they want to preserve the integrity by making it two parts. I wonder if that really will be the case.
Its almost as if he knows the previous films didn't preserve the integrity. Randomly replacing characters, adding new spells, etc. (see my  http://thehpu.blogspot.com/2010/02/ten-reasons-why-harry-potter-and-half.html to get more glimpses of what gets changed).

And then there are these things that will have to be answered in the new films:

1. Who will live? Who will die?
2. Is Snape good or evil?
3. Will Hogwarts reopen?
4. Who ends up with whom?
5. Where are the Horcruxes?
6. Will Voldemort be defeated?
7. What are the Deathly Hallows?
8. What are Horcruxes really? (they missed that in the previous film, only gave a boring overview) 

The first seven was the things Scholastic used to advertise Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, that the book contained those answers.

If these films are epic and does preserve the integrity of the HP canon, then what about the other Harry Potter films. Will we have to wait decades for a remake which will mess up the canon even more?

I really hope these films will be epic and not be like the previous films where the trailer was epic and then the movie itself is nothing compared with the books.