Potter delay doom

We wait.... and wait.... but for Em, anything

Have you seen The Dark Knight? Did you enjoy the Harry Potter trailer? Looking forward to seeing it? Well, keep looking forward.

Because the original November 2008 release date has been deferred... by eight months. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will now be released worldwide on July 17, 2009 - or some two years after the previous installment Order of the Phoenix.

By our reckoning, that will make Daniel Radcliffe 37 by the time the final movie – a two-parter, don't forget – sees the light of day. Something like that anyway. Maths was never our strongpoint.

The reason for the delay was blamed on the recent screenwriters strike.

According to Warner Bros. President Alan Horn, that 'impacted the readiness of scripts for other films.'

He also pointed out that the summer is a far better time to release a family film. Er... why didn't you just work around that theory in the first place, Al?

Strangely, the studio also announced that the release of the last movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, would probably go ahead as scheduled... in November 2010. So summer 2011 then?

With the pensioner Radcliffe and a married, heavily pregnant Emma Watson. Possibly.

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