Director Chris Columbus Wants To Adapt HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD with The Original Cast

It looks like director Chris Columbus is interested in jumping back into the Harry Potter franchise with adapting the Broadway production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as a film. He would also love to bring back the cast of the original film for it.

Columbus, who directed the first two films in the Harry Potter franchise, had this to say in an interview with THR:

"A version of 'Cursed Child' with Dan, Rupert, and Emma at the right age, it's cinematic bliss. If you're a film nerd or cinephile, it's kind of like what J.J. [Abrams] did with 'Star Wars.' 'Star Wars' really started to be great again when J.J. made the film and we had all the original cast back. There's no question if you're a 'Star Wars' fan, you were moved just seeing them on screen, seeing Harrison Ford as Han Solo again — and Chewy. It was very moving. I think that would be the same situation for 'Harry Potter' fans. To able to actually see these adult actors now back in these roles? Oh, yeah. It would be amazingly fun to make that film — or two films."

The story is set nineteen years after the events of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and it follows Harry Potter, now Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry of Magic, and his younger son, Albus Severus Potter, who is about to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

I haven’t seen the play, but I’ve read it and it’s a great story that I would love to see adapted into a film. The only way a film adaptation could really effectively work, though, is if the original cast did come back to reprise their roles.

Would you like to see Columbus direct an adaptation of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with the original cast?