
We chatted with the film's director Chris Columbus. Full of magic in the Great Hall, wizards we loved, and those we didn't. Some fans of the Harry Potter franchise love the play and want a film adaptation, meanwhile, others would rather it's left as is. 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' was the first of seven movies. Reaction to the news has been mixed online so far. Daniel, Rupert and Emma are now 32, 31 and 33 years old respectively. In other words, Chris is keen to give us a Cursed Child film and he wants Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson to all return as Harry, Ron and Hermione now that they're "the right age to play those roles". It’s a great play and the kids are actually the right age to play those roles. Speaking to Variety in honour of the 20 year anniversary of the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone film, Chris opened up about whether or not he thinks there will be any more Harry Potter movies and he replied: "I would love to direct The Cursed Child.

I thought, well, the kids presumably have a shorter attention span so this is a good thing.Harry Potter director wants to make a Cursed Child movie with the original cast.Ĭollection Christophel / Alamy Stock Photo, Warner Bros. Parents afterwards said it was too long, the kids said it was too short. Recently in an interview with Cinema Blend, Chris Columbus who helmed the first two parts of the film spoke about directing The Deathly Hallows I and II.

The 8-film franchise was adapted from JK Rowlings Harry Potter novels and was directed by four different directors. “Particularly a Chicago preview where our first cut was a three-hour cut. The Harry Potter film series has entertained the audience for over a decade. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the man made it clear that he would like a return to the silver screen. “We knew that the film worked because we did a couple of previews,” the director said. Film A film adaptation of ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ with the original cast Chris Columbus, the 63-year-old director of the first two films, is optimistic. also made the Harry Potterfilms, so who’s to say we couldn’t get a mega-sized version of Sorcerer’s Stone sometime?Īccording to Columbus, the three-hour version was a hit when they screened it, at least with kids. made waves when it released Zack Snyder’s Justice League, a much longer version of 2017’s Justice League, on HBO Max. #ReleaseTheColumbusCut of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone?īack in 2001, it was very difficult to get a vastly extended cut of a movie released, but the practice has been picking up steam lately. Peeves is a meddlesome poltergeist who haunts the halls of Hogwarts in the novels he was played by actor Rik Mayall but didn’t make he final cut, nor any of the special editions released subsequently.
