{"id":303847,"date":"2026-02-22T03:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/303847\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T03:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:51:11","slug":"daniel-radcliffe-was-pitched-a-wizard-of-oz-remake-with-hp-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/303847\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Radcliffe Was Pitched A &#8216;Wizard Of Oz&#8217; Remake With &#8216;HP&#8217; Trio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPost-<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/harry-potter\/\" id=\"auto-tag_harry-potter\" data-tag=\"harry-potter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Potter<\/a>, star <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/daniel-radcliffe\/\" id=\"auto-tag_daniel-radcliffe\" data-tag=\"daniel-radcliffe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Radcliffe<\/a> has taken on no shortage of singular projects, playing anyone from a flatulent corpse (Swiss Army Man) to a gun-toting computer programmer (Guns Akimbo), but there\u2019s one pitch that stands out as \u201cone of the worst\u201d he\u2019s ever heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile guesting on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fyw8CUE3LX4\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Ones<\/a> ahead of his <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/daniel-radcliffe-return-to-broadway-every-brilliant-thing-1236601326\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broadway return<\/a> in Every Brilliant Thing and the premiere of comedy The Rise and Fall of Reggie Dinkins, the Kill Your Darlings actor was asked about bizarre or unique pitches he\u2019s agreed to take on. The question made him call back the memory of a particularly horrendous pitch for the Harry Potter trio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cOne of the worst ideas that I\u2019ve ever heard: During Potter, somebody came to us and, I think, asked \u2014 like they wanted to cast all three of us \u2014 me, Emma [Watson] and Rupert [Grint] \u2014 in a remake of Wizard of Oz, where Emma was Dorothy, I can\u2019t remember what Rupert was and I just remember I was going to be the lion, but also, he knew karate. I was like a karate-kicking Cowardly Lion,\u201d Radcliffe said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe added, \u201cI was like 14 or 15, and I was like, \u2018I don\u2019t know a lot about the world, but this is a bad idea. This should not be made.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRadcliffe was just seen in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sony-pictures-classics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sony Pictures Classics<\/a>\u2018\u00a0December release of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/merrily-we-roll-along\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Merrily We Roll Along<\/a>, the live-filmed version of the four-time Tony Award-winning\u00a0musical revival that also starred\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jonathan-groff\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Groff<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lindsay-mendez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsay Mendez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs filming for the new Harry Potter reboot series begins, Radcliffe has passed the baton to new actor <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/dominic-mclaughlin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dominic McLaughlin<\/a>, to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/daniel-radcliffe-letter-hbo-harry-potter-dominic-mclaughlin-1236622014\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">whom he wrote a letter<\/a>. He said he didn\u2019t \u201cwant to be a specter in the life of these children\u201d but sent a note conveying: \u201c\u2018I hope you have the best time, and an even better time than I did \u2014 I had a great time, but I hope you have an even better time.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Post-Harry Potter, star Daniel Radcliffe has taken on no shortage of singular projects, playing anyone from a flatulent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35774,11782,146,5032,85,46,91634,89621],"class_list":["post-303847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-daniel-radcliffe","tag-emma-watson","tag-entertainment","tag-harry-potter","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-rupert-grint","tag-the-wizard-of-oz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}