It was a rumor before [1], and now it's confirmed: the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [2] is to be made into two separate films [3]: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. The films are set to be released in November 2010 and May 2011.
The movies will be shot back-to-back and will be directed by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [4] director David Yates.
Apparently, "adapting the novel would have resulted in truncating large swaths of it or making an extra-long feature in order to fit everything in. The studio found itself in a situation similar to Quentin Tarantino with Kill Bill, where splitting one long movie in two worked best creatively." Also, you know, Potter movies are a ginormous money-makers for Warner Brothers so . . . there's that.
What do you think about this news? And should the two movies have different titles than simply Part 1 and Part 2? What would you title them?