Warner Bros. Report Reveals Why HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD Films Didn't End Up Getting Made
The Harry Potter movie franchise has been a huge hit for Warner Bros. With all the movies, and their successful showings on TV and HBO Max, as well as the well-received reunion, it would make sense the studio would want to at least try to make more. The Fantastic Beasts films started off well, but have since under-performed, but the story Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been a success on stage, leaving some to wonder why we haven’t seen it on the big screen.
Apparently, WB was ready to go with a two-movie pitch for the play, which features characters from the original films, but they were stopped in their tracks leaving fans wondering why.
In a recent report from Puck, they say the studio was ready to roll, but the book series author J.K. Rowling and her representatives were not interested. Rowling, along with stage producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender, were seemingly worried about hurting the play while it was still a fairly fresh hit. Meanwhile, not everyone at WB was sold, as producing this project might look like an admission that the Fantastic Beasts franchise was dead.
Whether Rowling and company would now be more open to such a project -- it has been six years, and the play has already opened in five markets -- is anybody's guess, though as the years pass, Rowling has seemed more open to considering new Potter projects.
Cursed Child takes place almost 20 years after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and features adult versions of some of the original characters as supporting players. That could be huge for the fandom, but also presents a problem in that right now, it seems unlikely that Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson would return to the roles — something that would presumably be key to the appeal of a legacy sequel.
As of now, it’s not a project they’re working on, but it seems like a solid possibility in the future. Would you like to see the original cast return for this? I know I’d watch.
via: CB