{"id":96960,"date":"2025-08-25T23:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/96960\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T23:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:06:08","slug":"original-harry-potter-movie-director-chris-columbus-doesnt-want-to-be-involved-in-tv-reboot-addresses-j-k-rowling-controversies-chris-columbus-harry-potter-just-jared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/96960\/","title":{"rendered":"Original \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 Movie Director Chris Columbus Doesn\u2019t Want to Be Involved in TV Reboot, Addresses J.K. Rowling Controversies | Chris Columbus, Harry Potter | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Columbus<\/a> does not want to be involved in HBO\u2019s Harry Potter<\/a> reboot.<\/p>\n

The director, who helmed the first two Harry Potter movies and was a producer on the third film, says he is no longer interested in returning to the franchise.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I\u2019ve done it, you saw my version,\u201d he said to Variety<\/a> while in London to promoting Thursday Murder Club.<\/p>\n

Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing left for me to do in the world of Potter.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that he\u2019s not opposed to rebooting the franchise for TV.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe great thing about it is that with the first and second and third book, we wanted to do it all. We wanted to bring all of that onto the screen, and we didn\u2019t have the opportunity,\u201d he went on.<\/p>\n

For example, he cited Peeves, a character from the first Harry Potter book that \u201cnever made it into the film.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just didn\u2019t have time to develop the character,\u201d he said. He also referred to a storyline involving Harry and Hermione having to drink potions and worrying they may be poisoned.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could never get that incredible scene into the film, and I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll be in the HBO series. So for me, it\u2019s an opportunity to bring all those scenes to life,\u201d he reflected.<\/p>\n

Chris also admitted he had a \u201cdeja vu\u201d moment seeing Nick Frost<\/a> as Hagrid and Dominic McLaughlin<\/a> as Harry Potter while filming in London.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause it was exactly where we were 20 years ago!\u201d he noted. \u201cWe had to shoot it on a Sunday with Dan (Radcliffe)<\/a> and Martin Bayfield<\/a>, who stood in for Robbie Coltrane<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n

As for Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling<\/a> and her ongoing anti-trans rhetoric<\/a>, he said: \u201cI like to sometimes separate the artist from the art, I think that\u2019s important to do. It\u2019s unfortunate, what\u2019s happened. I certainly don\u2019t agree with what she\u2019s talking about. But it\u2019s just sad, it\u2019s very sad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Find out which Oscar-winning stars appeared in every Harry Potter movie.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Columbus does not want to be involved in HBO\u2019s Harry Potter reboot. The director, who helmed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-96960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}