A enjoyable time to speak about your previous tasks is while you’re speaking about your new tasks, as evidenced by Chris Columbus’s latest remarks concerning the world of Harry Potter, which he first dropped at the display with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. In a brand new interview with The London Instances, the director reveals that he nonetheless has an amazing relationship with the younger trio of stars he initially solid for the 2001 movie. Nonetheless, the anti-trans views of writer J.Okay. Rowling has made his dream of adapting the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Baby with the unique Potter solid an unimaginable one.
“It’s by no means going to occur,” Columbus advised author Kevin Maher. “It’s gotten so sophisticated with all of the political stuff. Everybody within the solid has their very own opinion, which is completely different from her opinion, which makes it unimaginable.”
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint have all been vocal about their assist for the trans neighborhood, which Rowling has devoted huge quantities of time and her appreciable wealth to attacking with glee. Whereas Columbus mentioned that he has not spoken to Rowling in over a decade or so, he’s nonetheless in contact along with his solid: “I maintain very shut contact with Daniel Radcliffe and I simply spoke to him a number of days in the past. I nonetheless have an amazing relationship with all the children within the solid.”
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Within the interview, Columbus as soon as once more talked about his lack of pleasure concerning the upcoming Harry Potter sequence being made for HBO, saying that “I’m anxious to see what they do. However from what I’ve seen already they’re mainly doing the identical factor we did, solely [because they have eight episodes] they get to do extra of it.”
He additionally didn’t have a lot enthusiasm for the brand new grownup solid being introduced in, particularly after the passing of Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, and Robbie Coltrane, all of whom he solid of their iconic roles as Professor Snape, Professor McGonagall, and Hagrid. (These roles shall be performed by Paapa Essiedu, Janet McTeer, and Nick Frost within the HBO sequence.) “When Richard Harris handed away and Michael Gambon took over as Dumbledore — that transition, even again then, was troublesome for me. So now it’s troublesome imagining anybody else in these roles.”
Not less than one authentic Harry Potter film solid member is crossing over to the sequence, although: HBO introduced over Labor Day weekend that Warwick Davis can be reprising his position as Professor Flitwick.