It is still being filmed, not having entered even a post-production stage, so the rumors still boil around it. Get me right — there are no rumors on the movie plot (that'd be weird), but as for the cast — there’s something to muse upon.
But let's get to the plot first. So, shortly: as Lord Voldemort is playing Joker (see The Dark Knight) on the United Kingdom, Harry is busy with a potions book with a "Half-Blood Prince" bookplate on it. He also practices some magic privately with Dumbledore (which is all too weird now, for we know now that Dumbledore was as gay as it gets). Luckily, Harry is totally straight, so he falls in sexual interest with Ginny Weasley. All the rest — magical wars, Voldemort's plans for the new world order, China’s growing influence and Teheran nuclear research — is so unimportant compared to puberty, you know…
So, the cast... Some thing never change (if the contract says so, of course), hence Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson are still here as Harry, Ron and Hermione. The was a lot of buff that Watson will be leaving the franchise after the fifth movie, but she eventually decided that "the pluses outweighed the minuses", so we can be sure she’ll stay with us for Harry Potter 7 as well.
Jim Broadbent plays Horace Slughorn, blondy Tom Felton is again Draco Malfoy, Bonnie Wright plays Ginny Weasley. Other notables are David Thewlis as Remus Lupin and Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange.
There were reports that both Naomi Watts and Joseph Fiennes would be appearing in the movie too, but their representatives denied the reports completely. It is being still buzzed that Naomi Watts would be playing Narcissa Malfoy, Draco’s mother. Cthulhu-like Bill Nighy had expressed an interest in appearing in the film. The director David Yates said that if the part of Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour makes it to the final screenplay, then Nighy will be his first choice for the role.
Yates, by the way, who directed the previous Potter movie, could be substituted in his chair by Terry Gilliam, M. Night Shyamalan or Guillermo del Toro, but they all just turned down the chance to direct something like "Harry Potter and whatever".
The movie is opening on November, 21 in the United States and is destined to become a box-office hit. You know, the five Harry Potter films together have already out-grossed all 22 James Bond films, so Potter is the biggest movie franchise ever! Potter's $4.47 billion worldwide is nothing to sneeze at.
