USA Today has posted the official first look at Part 1 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
The premiere image (here at right) shows the teenage wizard (no longer a ‘boy’) Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) with his best friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) in casual attire out in London near Piccadilly Circus, aka the Muggle world of non-magic.
The seventh and final book in the JK Rowlings’ Harry Potter series will be broken into two film adaptations, with Part 1 scheduled for November 2010 and Part 2 in 2011.
In the Deathly Hallows story, the young wizards go on the lamb in the Muggle world when the magical realm comes under attack by the evil Lord Voldemort and his minions, the Death Eaters. For the first time we’ll see the teens outside the protection of Hogwarts, their magical boarding school, and its headmaster Professor Dumbledore, vulnerable to the dark forces.
Director David Yates said having Harry and his friends away from Hogwarts and in real-life danger without the usual protection over them is “going to feel very real.”
We’re going for a vérité approach. Being away from Hogwarts, they’re like these three refugees on the run. They’re out in the big bad world, facing real danger, unguarded by those wonderful benign wizards at Hogwarts. They don’t have a home to go to.
Check out the rest of the article, along with a larger version of the image, over at USA Today.
